India’s growing tourism industry is now on the radar of the Indian Mujahideen terror outfit, which appears determined to project India being unsafe for tourists. This was why it targeted German Bakery in Pune, which is frequented by

With Parliament paralysed for the ninth day, the government said Friday while there would be no rollback of FDI in retail, it might use the four-day parliamentary holiday to hold further consultations with its allies starting Saturday.

Days after her release on bail in the 2G spectrum scam case, Rajya Sabha MP and DMK chief Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi is all set to be rewarded with a plum position within the party hierarchy. An announcement to that effect is to be made shortly by party supremo M. Karunanidhi.

An intense game of not-so-musical chairs is currently being played within the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, causing a dark shadow on the upcoming Assembly elections.

The CBI on Friday arrested former water resources minister in the Rajasthan government, Mahipal Maderna in connection with its probe related to the abduction and suspected murder of Jodhpur’s auxiliary nurse-cum-folk singer Bhanwari Devi, 36.

The intelligence bureau of the Union home ministry has recommended replacement of the Kerala police with Central security cover for the Mullaiperiyar dam, a bone of contention between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. As early as 2006, the home ministry, in a preliminary report, had suggested that the dam be

Kerala advocate-general K.T. Dandapani told the high court on Friday that there was no correlation between the storage level and the safety of Muyllaperiyar dam, knocking the bottom out of Kerala’s argument that higher storage imperiled the safety of the 116-year-old reservoir.

On a day when Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought his intervention on the Mullaperiyar dam imbroglio, the AIADMK MPs too met Dr Singh and alleged that Kerala was resorting to create a fear psychosis in the minds of the public through the media over the

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy meets state MPs protesting over Mullaperiyar dam issue at Parliament House in New Delhi on Friday. — Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The Delhi high court on Friday quashed a trial court order summoning the DDA vice-chairman to depose before it in a 16-year-old case against the housing body’s officials for their alleged role in illegal allotment of government land to a private firm.