According to him, slum tourism is not a new phenomenon: "What takes place today on a global scale was a fairly common leisure practice for Victorians, known as 'slumming'.
The initial arguments to frame charges against Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the parents of murdered teenager Aarushi, finally began in a Ghaziabad court on Tuesday afternoon.
Song writers, artistes and performers, deprived of their dues so far, can now claim royalty for their creations with Parliament on Tuesday approving a law to provide much-delayed justice to them.
Two disc jockeys who played music at the rave party in suburban Juhu hotel were today called to police station for the second consecutive day for probe into the matter even as the investigators are trying to decode the language used in the invitation, police said.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and DMK chief M Karunanidhi will not be present at the third anniversary dinner of the United Progressive Alliance-II (UPA-II) government which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is hosting tonight.
DMK Chief M Karunanidhi today refused to rate the three year performance of the UPA-II government, saying there are "ups and downs" for every government.
Both houses of Parliament were disrupted today over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reportedly pointing to a loss of over Rs. 180,000 crore ($40 billion) in the allotment of coal blocks.
A total of 344 people have lost their lives in communal violence across the country in last three years, Lok Sabha was informed today.
The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, is to leave his post this summer, the embassy in Kabul confirmed today.
Islamabad was adamant on its demand for an apology for a Nato air strike at a border post in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were martyred, Pakistani ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman has said.
The trial of the biggest suspect in a US crackdown on Wall Street insider trading, former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, started with a prosecutor saying he "threw away his duties."
Following a day-long drama, the government and the opposition parties finally decided on Monday to refer the lokpal and lokayuktas bill to a fresh House panel for further scrutiny, virtually bringing Anna Hazare and his team back to life.
HT reports.
The winding journey
From a crackdown on dubious charity contributions to encouraging the use of credit and debit cards, from tracking realty deals to monitoring jewellery purchases, the govt has proposed a wide range of measures to combat black money.
HT reports.
Tackling parallel economyAn arrest warrant issued for former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf by an anti-terrorism court in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination case will remain valid till its compliance, the Interpol has been informed by authorities in Islamabad.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was hit with criminal charges today for his part in an election reform rally, a case he denounced as another government attempt to remove him from politics.