Abandoned at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for over three weeks, two-year-old battered baby Falak has been taken off the ventilator as her breathing problem is under control and showing signs of improvement, doctors attending on her said on Friday.
The European Union has asked India to use its leverage to bring Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said today, as Asia's third-largest economy prepares to increase trade with Tehran.
In a setback to Army chief Gen VK Singh, the Supreme Court today upheld the government decision on his age issue and said he cannot resile on his commitment accepting the date of birth as May 10, 1950, forcing him to withdraw his petition. The apex court said it was not in favour of entertaining Gen Singh's petition that his date of birth should be treated in official records as May 10,1951 and gave him option of withdrawing it.
In order to meet the June 30, 2012 deadline for digitalisation in the four metros, major service providers have already placed orders for about 8.79 million set top boxes (STBs) out of the total projected need of 10 million boxes for the first phase, an information and broadcasting ministry release said. HT reports.
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today rejected law minister Salman Khurshid's claim that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi cried after seeing pictures of Batla House encounter, reports said.
Sonia cried after seeing Batla pictures: Khurshid
Pushed on the backfoot, Government today told the Supreme Court that it has withdrawn its December 30 order rejecting Army chief General VK Singh's statutory complaint for treating his date of birth as May 10, 1951 instead of May 10, 1950.
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A question of hierarchyBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was one of the party's contenders for prime minister.
The Supreme Court today declined to entertain "at this stage" the plea of Sashikala Natarajan, estranged close aide of Jayalalithaa to provide her translated copies in Tamil of the proceedings before the special Bangalore trial court in a disproportionate assets case.
A network of tiger poachers spanning across four states has been unearthed with the arrest of eleven members of three gangs in the last fortnight. Skin of eight leopard and tigers and five kilogram of bones have been seized from them. Chetan Chauhan reports.
Twelve-year-old Mohammad Sohail was addicted to crime serials on television and convinced that one comes back to life after committing suicide. His belief turned fatal. HT reports.
The National Green Tribunal has put on hold the environment clearance granted to a power plant in Chhattisgarh on the ground that the Environment ministry failed to get public hearing of the affected persons done.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the fate of education minister Peerzada Mohammed Sayeed, whose foster son's Class 10 exam was allegedly fudged, would be decided in the next 24 hours.
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline project has moved closer to realisation with petroleum ministry set to approach the cabinet for approval of Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement (GSPA) between GAIL and Tukmen Gaz for delivering hydrocarbon at Fazilka in Punjab.
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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has found an admirer in Nobel Laureate and anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu. HT reports.