The father and uncle of a teenaged girl, who along with her lover was found hanging in Haryana’s Bhiwani district, have been arrested in the alleged honour killing case, with police saying the couple was beaten to death.

Former Union minister Vasant Sathe on Tuesday said there was nothing wrong or illegal in giving safe passage to then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson and the Congress should not feel embarrassed about it.

Ahead of a series of bilateral meetings, India on Tuesday demanded “credible” action by Pakistan in the Mumbai 26/11 terror attack case, saying the core issue of addressing the country’s concerns on the issue will be part of these parleys.

A top LeT commander and a policeman were killed and four others injured in an overnight gunbattle in Sopore town of north Kashmir, the police said on Tuesday.
The firefight commenced at Bhagat Mohalla, 55 km from here, when militants opened fire on a search party of special operations group (SOG) of local police, around 9.50 am on Monday.

As many as 400 former female LTTE cadres who gave up guns have taken up new vocations after receiving training in search of new life.

India may yet again miss power capacity addition target for a Plan period as the country is likely to add around 55,000 MW of generation capacity against the targeted 62,000 MW in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12). This is mainly due to cancellation of some coal

Japanese car major Nissan on Tuesday said it will launch its much-awaited small car Micra in India in July, and the base model could cost less than Rs four lakh.
“The new Nissan Micra will be launched nationwide on July 14, 2010,” the company said in a statement. The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Nissan Motor India, will roll out the new Micra from its recently inaugurated facility at Oragadam near Chennai.

If you think chimpanzees are cuddly, think again, for researchers claim that the mankind’s closest cousins in the animal world are ruthless killers with a taste for gang warfare.

Billionaire Anil Ambani on Tuesday called on oil minister, Mr Murli Deora, apparently to discuss allocation of natural gas to his group’s power plants, amid reports that government could consider allocation of gas only six months prior to commissioning of projects.

The government today received Rs 30,229.51 crore as fee towards broadband wireless spectrum from all successful bidders, with Mukesh Ambani-led RIL’s internet arm Infotel alone coughing up Rs 12,847.77 crore.