Former communications minister Sukh Ram, who has been out on bail during the 13-year-long trial, was on Friday found guilty by the court of misusing his official position during his tenure to award a contract worth `30 crores to Haryana Telecom Limited (HTL), a private firm, for supply of cables to the telecom department.

In a seemingly bizarre incident, a woman home guard in Bahraich district has been placed under suspension for allegedly practising witchcraft at the residence of the district magistrate, Pinky Jowel.

A Pizza Hut delivery boy was run over by a speeding Chevrolet car driven by a Delhi University student on Thursday evening, killing him on the spot.

A 43-year-old auto dealer was seriously injured near Dhaula Kuan area area when he “accidentally” attempted to enter in the Prime Minister and the President’s route as “no clear indication was made by the police” that the convoy was passing through.

The CBI is set to register a case against former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his associates following allegations of amassing assets more than their known sources of income.

The Telugu Desam Party is planning to move a no-confidence motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in the ensuing Winter Session of the Assembly.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, who along with party’s two former MPs got bail in the cash-for-vote scam, is likely to join Mr Advani during the last leg of his Janchetna yatra. Sources disclosed Mr Advani called up Mr Kulkarni after the latter walked out of Tihar Jail on Thursday

Senior CPI(M) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury met noted British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm in London during his visit there. Hobsbawm told Mr Yechury that he is looking forward that in India, despite the electoral

Amidst talks about an ideological revisit in the CPI(M), a similar exercise is being under process in the Communist Party of India (CPI). Talking to this newspaper, CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan said that a draft has already been prepared

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has urged the Centre to formulate an appropriate financial package for millions of “bunkars” (weavers), most of whom belong to weaker community and to the minorities.