New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to take up with the State governments and ensure that there was no unauthorised construction of temples, churches, mosques and gurdwaras on public streets/public places. A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Mukundakam Sharma asked Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam to file an affidavit on the steps taken in this ...Read More

New Delhi: Pakistan has moved a large number of troops from the border with India to its troubled north-west for an offensive against the Taliban. US Special Ambassador on Af-Pak Richard Holbrooke has termed the troops redeployment as a significant move. The troop redeployment looks like the first significant thinning out of the Pakistan Army from its front with ...Read More

NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S M Krishna did PM Manmohan Singh's stand on the July 17 India-Pakistan joint statement no favour in Rajya Sabha on Friday when he chose to counter the Opposition diatribe with a platitudinous and extremely long speech on India's foreign policy, rather than addressing the "real issue", leading to strong protests in the House that ...Read More

Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has fined 10 students Rs 50,000 each for ragging first-year students — a cognizable offence. These students from BHU’s Institute of Technology have been arrested and also expelled from the hostel for a semester. These BTech second and third-year students were caught “in the act of ragging” by a member of the security staff ...Read More

Making it clear that there would be no single class 10 board, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said while retaining the diversity, stress should be on uniformity of excellence. However, Sibal's idea of making the class 10 examination optional in CBSE-affiliated schools will be discussed in the three-day meeting of state secretaries of school education and special ...Read More

After maintaining measured silence on the India-Pakistan joint statement for a fortnight, the top leadership of the Congress on Thursday came out in full support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with party president Sonia Gandhi, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and general secretary Rahul Gandhi taking up the cudgels for him. While Ms. Gandhi revealed her mind in her ...Read More

If the kidnappers of 16-year-old Ribhu Chawla hadn't panicked, maybe the Class 11 student would have been alive today. That's what the cops investigating the sensational kidnap-murder case are hinting at. Sources in the police also revealed that the kidnapper might have been known to the family of the victim. "We suspect the involvement of someone close to ...Read More

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction and stripping the status off senior advocate of noted criminal lawyer R K Anand for contempt of court for attempting to influence the course of justice in the infamous BMW hit-and-run case. Setting aside the conviction of the then Special Public Prosecutor I U Khan, a three-judge Bench of Justices ...Read More

There was a heated debate in Parliament on the Indo-Pak joint statement on Wednesday. Though the Prime Minister said there had been no dilution of India's stand on terrorism emanating from Pakistan and he even invoked the Vajpayee legacy to say prime ministers have always tried to make peace with Pakistan, a range of Opposition MPs attacked ...Read More

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tendered his resignation on Tuesday after senior PDP leader Muzaffar Husein Beig accused him of being a suspect in the 2006 Srinagar sex scandal. Omar Abdullah has now said he will return to his post only after his name has been cleared of all charges. His resignation has been rejected by Jammu ...Read More