Taking a cue from Maharashtra, Gujarat on Wednesday banned a controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul; Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, written by former New York Times editor Joseph Lelyveld. The book is yet to be released in this country.

The Sewri fast track court on Wednesday sentenced actor Shiney Ahuja to seven years rigorous imprisonment after being found guilty of raping his maid.

In a major setback to Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government on its populist `2 kg rice scheme, the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed its extension to all ration card holders in the state, accepting the Election Commission’s plea that it disturbed the delicate balance of “level play” in the electoral process.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who took a calculated risk in inviting his Pakistani counterpart, Yousaf Raza Gilani, emerged as triumphant as Team India on Wednesday evening.

India were calmness personified in making their way to a third World Cup final as they beat Pakistan by 29 runs at the PCA Stadium here on Wednesday. The hosts now take on fellow tournament holders Sri Lanka for the title at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.

A special team of the Noida police on Wednesday apprehended a doctor for allegedly turning over 50 men into eunuchs. The accused, who has been identified as Dr Navi Chauhan, has confessed to the allegation before the police and will be produced in a city court today.

Three people, including two Nigerian nationals, were arrested for allegedly running a cocaine racket in south Delhi. The police said the first accused to be apprehended was Shobhan Mittal, a businessman, who stays at a rented farmhouse in south Delhi’s Chattarpur area. “Mittal was apprehended on Tuesday with two grams of

Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta has requested the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately remove chief minister Sheila Dikshit for “considering herself above law though indicted in the Commonwealth Games bungling by the Shunglu committee.” Mr Gupta has stated that if Ms Dikshit is

All the hype, on and off the ground, wishful spectators, armchair experts, people with opinions changing with each delivery and empty roads on the capital on a hot Wednesday afternoon. The India-Pakistan semi-final match took a vice-like grip on the city and the Delhi government obliged by declaring a half-day holiday, allowing people to catch up with the match.

Feeling ignored and hurt over the apparent haste in which Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led government got 12 bills introduced and passed in the state Assembly in just over two hours, the Opposition parties on Wednesday complained to the governor about being deliberately deprived of their democratic right of intervention.