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

A 12-year-old girl student was held hostage and molested by two youth near Rashtrapati Bhavan in Chanakyapuri area on Sunday. The accused tried to rape the victim but she started screaming for help following which the accused fled.

Traders in Delhi shut their shops on Thursday supporting the all-India Bandh against the Central government’s decision on approval to FDI in the retail sector. Many markets remained closed.

In a sudden U-turn, the parliamentary standing committee looking into the Lokpal Bill on Thursday gave its nod to the exclusion of Group C officials from the proposed ombudsman law and to not tampering with the present selection

The bill for MCD trifurcation was passed in the Delhi Assembly amid din on Thursday as BJP MLAs demanded a full statehood for the national capital.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, which also provides for

The markets joined a global rally on Thursday after the world’s leading central bankers agreed to cut the cost of providing dollar funding to banks facing a liquidity crunch due to the European debt crisis. The fall in food inflation also boosted sentiment.

A shopkeeper sits outside his shop at Paharganj in New Delhi as the market was closed in support of the nationwide bandh against FDI in retail on Thursday. — BIPLAB BANERJEE

Despite Pakistan’s repeated assurances that it is not aiding and abetting terror in India, Pakistani national and Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Mohammed Adil, alias Ajmal, has told interrogators that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence was

Anticipating a showdown in Parliament over the government’s decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally intervened on Thursday to pacify key UPA allies,