
Postmortem report of Jiah Khan has concluded that the Bollywood actress died due to hanging and no external injuries were found on her body, police said today.
The return of the DMK to the Congress fold appeared to gain momentum today. DMK leader TR Baalu met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and requested her to support the candidature of Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK chief M Karunanidhi.
The Supreme Court today slammed Mumbai Police for restraining three Uganda nationals, including a parliamentarian, from leaving the country and directed it to immediately release their passports which were seized on a complaint filed on behalf of Videocon group.
A US court has rejected a plea by the Delta Airlines to vacate the US Export-Import Bank's support for the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Air India.

Six Bihar BJP MLAs are likely to resign in favour of Nitish govt, according to a TV report.The BJP MLAs today accused Nitish Kumar of betraying mandate and walked out of the House boycotting confidence vote moved by him.
BJP to sit in OppositionIn addition to relinquishing lead responsibility for security, the US said Tuesday it will be holding direct talks with the Taliban in support of the Afghan reconciliation process, Yashwant Raj reports.
The muddy, swirling waters of the Yamuna river were flowing over the danger mark on Wednesday, leading to the closure of the city's 145-year-old railway bridge, and forced the evacuation of 2,000 families living along the river banks.

The famous Kedarnath shrine located in the Himalayan ranges in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand is safe but will remain out of bounds for at least one year, chief minister Vijay Bahuguna said today.
Pakistani troops on Wednesday violated ceasefire and opened indiscriminate firing along Line of Control (LOC) in Poonch sector after an infiltration bid was foiled by Indian troops.
The probe into alleged irregularities in coal block allocations between 2006 and 2009 reached the doorstep of the prime minister's office on Tuesday with the CBI recording the statements of two former officials.
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What’s the fuss aboutBihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “from the core of his heart” for calling him a secular leader and appreciating him for quitting the BJP and the NDA. Mammen Matthew reports.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the parent body of banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been allocated over Rs. 61 million by Pakistan's Punjab province government headed by PM Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged today that the Centre and its agencies, along with the CPI(M), Congress, Maoists and a section of the media have joined hands to murder her.
HT reports.
President Barack Obama said Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third in a keynote speech in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate in which he called for a world of "peace and justice".
Delhi government has decided torefer to the Union home ministry a decision on the execution of death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar following a medical board report that he is under severe mental depression.