Call it cynical or witty, but Valentine’s Day is not just restricted to lovers now.

A Pakistani court on Saturday issued non-bailable arrest warrant for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for his alleged involvement in the assassination of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

The ministry of health and family welfare’s interim report to inquire into irregularities in implementing the PATH-ICMR study using the human papillomavirus (HPV) in India has recommended the project be allowed to continue.

Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), will have a new chairman. A process to restructure Antrix Corp. has now started in the wake of the controversial two-satellite deal it had struck with a private firm.

The Supreme Court decision awarding former Kerala power minister R. Balakrishnan Pillai one year’s rigorous imprisonment in a graft case has come at a very crucial stage — when the country is facing scams like those involving 2G spectrum allocation, the CWG and the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society — as the verdict has laid down stringent tests to evaluate decisions of the executive authority and the “misuse of power” by them in the allocation of national resources.

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday asked the Centre as well the state government to try to learn lessons from the collapse of the Hosni Mubarak government in Egypt under the weight of people’s power in Egypt and help the people of Jammu and Kashmir in finding their destiny.

A three-member team comprising S.S. Agarwal, former director of Sanjay Gandhi PGI of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, S.P. Agarwal, former director-general of health services and Suneeta Mitta from AIIMS took the Andhra Pradesh government health authorities to task for having permitted hostel wardens and headmasters to sign consent forms on behalf of minor girls belonging to tribal communities in the PATH-ICMR study using the human papillomavirus (HPV) in India.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leadership on Saturday announced that they would not take part in the ongoing tripartite talks for the formation of any interim set up in the Darjeeling Hills. After their meeting with Centre’s interlocutor Lt. Gen. (retd) Vijay Madan at Kumani, the party chief Bimal Gurung said that his party would not accept any

Unsure of how to audit the flagship MGNREGA, as suggested by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the rural development ministry has decided to take the issue in public domain.