Indian government agencies are probing a Chinese connection to 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje. They suspect he could be a Chinese agent working to further Beijing’s grand plan to control monasteries along the Sino-Indian border, from Ladakh to Tawang in Arunachal. Official sources said investigations were on to determine

Even in the event of a nuclear strike by a hostile neighbour, the Indian Army has developed the ability to march through contaminated areas and strike back at the enemy. This is significant given that Pakistan has been trying to build more nuclear warheads to negate the Indian Army’s traditional edge in conventional forces.

Battered from all sides for its decision to appoint tainted bureaucrat P.J. Thomas as central vigilance commissioner, the government on Friday tried to salvage itself by asking the CVC to resign on his own. But Mr Thomas refused to oblige, saying that “resigning at this stage” would leave him “tainted”. A rehabilitation package too was offered to him, but he refused to accept it, government sources said.

A Gujarat-cadre police officer who is a member of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed to probe the encounter killing of Mumbai college-girl Ishrat Jahan has said in an affidavit filed before a division bench of the Gujarat high court that all early evidence in the case points to the 19-year-old girl and her three friends being shot dead in a fake encounter.

New vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University supports the JNU Students’ Union election system terming it unique. Prof. Sudhir Kumar Sopory is also set to promote new courses and research programmes in the university. He also underlined the need to improve the teacher student relationship and said that the teachers delivering the best will be awarded.

The British firm which had supplied crucial parts for the ill-fated foot over bridge near the JLN Stadium, which had collapsed just days before the Commonwealth Games, has put the blame on the PWD for the mishap. It may be recalled that the FOB near the stadium had come crashing down on Septe-mber 21, after which the Army had built an alternate FOB in a flat seven days.

A woman facing the allegations for allegedly subjecting her three children to acute physical violence on Friday moved a city court seeking a direction to the Delhi police to further investigate the case relating to sexual abuse of the minors by their school cab driver.

Raising serious question about the identity of one of the prosecution witnesses (PWs) in the 28-year-old call centre employee Jigisha Ghosh murder trial, lawyer of two accused persons contended in a Delhi court as to how the PW could be trusted as he had allegedly failed in furnishing his identity to the court.

Onions have got cheaper further with the Nafed on Friday having started selling the dear kitchen commodity at `25 a kg. This has been possible with the wholesale onion prices at the Azadpur Mandi dropping to the level of `10-15 a kg.

Services on two Delhi Metro lines will be partially affected on Saturday on the occasion of the Beating Retreat ceremony that brings the curtains down on the Republic Day celebrations.