Do patriots exist only in History textbooks?” Many ask. Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekar Azad seem to have been relegated to classrooms and a few hammy talkies.

The Indian republic has turned 61 today with grace and dignity intact, she stands tall.

Income-tax officials raided the residences and offices of top Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra in Mumbai all through Monday. Sources said they were investigating the actresses’ offshore incomes over the past two years and also suspected the two had taken some payments in cash.

The battle between the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led BJP government in Karnataka and state governor H.R. Bhardwaj reached a crescendo on Monday with a BJP delegation led by party patriarch L.K. Advani calling on President Pratibha Patil to demand the governor’s removal for his “unconstitutional conduct”. While this battle was playing in New Delhi, the chief minister also had to contend with three more private complaints filed against him in a sessions court in Bengaluru.

JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Monday called on his party’s alliance partner, the BJP, to give up its plan to hoist the national flag at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Republic Day, saying that matters related to Kashmir were “sensitive” in nature.

The BJP’s attempt to repeat Murli Manohar Joshi’s 1991-92 Ekta Yatra to hoist the tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Republic Day hit a roadblock on Monday when three of its senior leaders, Mr Arun Jaitley, Mr Ananth Kumar and Ms Sushma Swaraj, were stopped at Jammu airport and asked to return. The party leaders, who

Newly-appointed Union sports minister Ajay Maken on Monday sacked the chairman of the scandal-ridden Commonwealth Games organising committee, Suresh Kalmadi, who along with committee members faces corruption charges over the conduct of the Games.

Amid reports of private schools developing cold feet on giving admissions to the poor, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday asserted that the guidelines for 25 per cent reservation of seats for economically weaker section (EWS) would be enforced.

Delhi does not respect women which is why the idea of reserving seat for women came into force, said Delhi Metro chief E. Sreedharan.
In an interview to a news agency, the Metro Man said that Delhi is one city where people don’t respect women. However, such measures may not be required in other Indian metros and Metro trains there may not need to have women only coaches. The Delhi Metro reserved first coach of every train exclusively for women from October 2, 2010.