Gammon India is likely to get off the hook as the company is "very important" to Delhi Metro for the completion of its projects in time, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) indicated on Tuesday as it blacklisted two other firms for the July 12 mishap that killed six people and injured 15 ...

Home Minister P. Chidambaram firmly said that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's name did not figure in the probe into a sex scandal that had rocked the state in 2006.
 
"The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) has concluded the case and his (Abdullah) name does not ...

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress general secretary, on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and urged him to set up a separate development authority for Bundelkhand region, which spans Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
 
"Legislators and leaders from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh ...

The season's first good shower came too late for Mohan Singh's rice nursery where the saplings are dead. His bajra crop is ruined too, as his pump could not raise water from the falling aquifer below his farm. He hopes his sugarcane patch will now be revived.
 
Monday's shower marginally ...

Delhi Police Saturday said no first information report (FIR) was filed against Continental Airlines for frisking former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. The government has been claiming that a case was filed against the US carrier.
"We have registered a complaint into the matter but a case is ...

The Minority Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid, on Friday said that he was personally in favour of an equality ministry and not the one he was heading.
 
"I personally was not in favour of a separate minority ministry. Rather, I wanted a minority section in every ministry," ...

India is progressing towards eradication of the disease and the proof is that India has reported just 136 cases of polio so far this year and fewer families are now opposing the immunisation drive.
 
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a written reply informed the Rajya Sabha that till July ...

Maintaining that homosexuality is against Indian culture, religious leaders at a meeting passed a resolution on Thursday opposing the Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising gay sex.
 
In the resolution they passed at their meeting here, the religious leaders from all faiths said that ...

Krishna Tirath, Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare, on Thursday called for setting up fast-track courts to provide speedier justice to rape victims.
 
"There should be fast-track courts to conduct trial of rape cases. Only then, the rape victim would get speedy justice," ...

The Vice-President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Omkar Bhave, passed away on Thursday morning following severe breathing problems and chest congestion. He was 85.
 
Bhave had been admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the capital June 27.
 
He was brought to the VHP office in ...

Nandan Nilekani assumed his position as the chairman of the Unique Identification Database Authority of India today and started work on the government's ambitious project to provide a single identity number and card to each of the country's 1.17 billion people.
 
Nilekani, who met the ...

Baldev Raj, a ver well-known scientist and the director of Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), has been elected the vice-president of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) for 2009-12.
 
He is the first Indian to be elected to the post in the 62-year-old institute, an ...

Nandan Mohan Nilekani will formally assume the position as the chairperson of the newly formed Unique Identity Authority at Yojana Bhavan, the headquarters of the Planning Commission, in New Delhi on Thursday.
 
Nilekani, 54, will enjoy the rank of a cabinet minister.
 
The authority ...

Gangubai Hangal, the renowned Hindustani classical music who died on Tuesday, was given a state funeral on Wednesday at Hubli in north Karnataka amidst her family members and hundreds of admirers.
 
A state police contingent reversed arms and offered a gun salute as the mortal remains of the ...

Hindustani music exponent Gangubai Hangal died in Karnataka's Hubli town on Tuesday morning following cardiac and respiratory problems. She was 97.
 
Hangal died at 7.10 a.m. at the Lifeline Emergency Care Centre in Hubli, about 480 km from Bangalore. Close family members, including her ...

W.H. Mcleod ,the man from faraway New Zealand who came to Punjab in the 1950s as a Christian missionary but ended up being a globally-reputed historian on Sikhs has passed away. He was dedicated over four decades of his life in researching Sikh history, died in Dunedin on Monday ...

The Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, informed the Parliament on Monday that the bill for setting up a National Green Tribunal is being finalized by the government.
 
"The NGT intends to reduce the load of environmental cases, of civil nature, pending in higher courts ...

Inspired by the Bangladesh's Grameen Bank endeavour, former Indian president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has mooted a separate Indian law for micro credit in rural areas.
 
Responding to Kalam, who is on a three-day visit here, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said that Grameen Bank would ...

The Delhi High Court is likely to give its verdict in the infamous BMW hit-and-run case on Monday, in which a trial court had convicted and sentenced Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Naval chief S.M. Nanda, to five years' jail for mowing down six persons in 1999.
 
Justice Kailash Gambhir, ...

There is a temple of Lord Shiva located in the in Bambhrauaa village of Rampur district, which is about 270 Km from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. The temple called Pataleshwar temple allows the Muslims to take part in certain rituals as well as donate for community feasts during every ...

Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote a touching message in the tribute book for 26/11 terror attack victims at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel here Saturday morning.
 

"Americans share solidarity with this city and nation," she wrote.

"Both our ...

The Teach For India initiative is the catalyst for a new movement to bridge the education gap in India, with its volunteers serving as the spark to inspire children to become successful, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared here Saturday.
 

She was participating in an interactive ...

Continuing the verbal sparring with the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday hit out at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his comments against her government, saying the Congress should "first set its own house in order before accusing others".
 

On ...

Renowned historian and former Rajya Sabha member, Manmath Nath Das, died here early Saturday. He was 83.
 
Das died due to complications related to old age. He is survived by a son, daughter and his wife.
 
Das, a former vice chancellor of Utkal University in Orissa, has published a ...

The renowned Bollywood film director and choreographer, Farah Khan, is now helping to spread the awareness about pneumococcal group of illnesses that include pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections and which affect children aged below five.
 
Khan, who has given the pneumococcal conjugate ...

The government will soon issue unique plastic cards to Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries to help them avail services in any part of the country, the parliament was told on Wednesday.
 
"It has been decided to issue plastic cards individually to each beneficiary of ...

Pradeep Kumar will take over Vijay Singh as the Secretary in the Defence Ministry. Thus information was given in New Delhi on Tuesday. He is currently the Secretary of Defence Production.
 
 According to an official statement, Kumar tenure will before two years from the date he takes ...

Gokul Chattopadhyay got married at a very young age but could not continue her education after passing out from school. Now, at the age of 86, her dreams of pursuing higher studies have come true as she appears for an undergraduate examination.
 
Chattopadhyay, a resident of Kakulia road in ...

Orissa based sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Monday was declared the winner of the people's choice award at the world championship held in Berlin last month for his 15-feet-high image of Lord Buddha.
 
Pattnaik, who hails from Orissa's beach city of Puri, 56 km from Bhubaneswar is the first ...

Tennis star Sania Mirza found her match in childhood friend Sohrab Mirza as the two exchanged rings at an engagement ceremony on Friday night that was attended by industrialists, sportspersons and politicians.
The 22-year-old tennis ace exchanged rings with Sohrab, 23, an MBA student and ...