Top publishing associations supported by well-known authors launched a signature campaign for review of the proposed amendments in the Copyright Amendment Bill (2010) which makes it easier to import books to the country.

The Central Board for Secondary Education will send question paper banks in different subjects for Classes 9 and 10 in order to ensure standards. The results of Class 10 will be announced with the board results only. According to a CBSE circular, the board will provide question paper banks for English Communicative, English Language and Literature, Hindi-A, Hindi-B, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Communicative Sanskrit.

The British foreign office had warned the Indian high commission that if its request for waiver of diplomatic immunity in the case of senior diplomat Anil Verma, accused of allegedly assaulting his wife, was not honoured then it would request for immediate withdrawal of Mr Verma and family from the United Kingdom.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday granted bail to Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) official M. Jayachandran, as the CBI failed to complete its probe and file the chargesheet against him within the stipulated 60-day period after his arrest in the Queen’s Baton Relay (QBR) scam.

International agencies — Nobel Peace Prize winner Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) (popularly known as Doctors without Borders) and Indian Red Cross Society — are under scanner of the Chhattisgarh police for allegedly “aiding Maoists” in Bastar region, the epicentre of Naxal activities in the country, senior police officers said on

At least 12 fishermen of Arukattuthurai were “chased away” and their nets were damaged by the Sri Lankan naval personnel in the mid sea off Kodiakarai on Tuesday night. The incident triggered tension among the fishermen in the coastal area in the district.

The Vohra Committee report considered to be one of the most authentic document on the emergence of “dangerous” nexus of politician, bureaucrats and underworld syndicates, came in for sharp focus in the Supreme Court on Wednesday in the context of Indians’ “black accounts” in tax heavens abroad.

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has sent an SOS message to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking instructions to banking institutions on undertaking strict scrutiny before advancing any more loans to any public enterprise under the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government.

The extradition case of Ravi Shankaran, the main accused in the Naval war room leak case who was arrested by the Met police in London on April 21 last year, was on Wednesday postponed to May 5.

Strong tremors in Delhi and NCR around 2 am on Wednesday shook thousands of residents out of their sleep forcing them to take protective measures following the earthquake that hit a sparsely populated area of south-west Pakistan at a magnitude of 7.4 Richter scale.