India

BSP today ruled out pre-poll alliance with any party ahead of general elections next year.

Cadets went on a nightlong rampage inside a police training school complex in Jammu and Kashmir smashing the property as well as vehicles on the Srinagar-Leh highway.

It has all the ingredients of a Bollywood potboiler — dubious deals, sex, murder and villains with political connections. And it has embroiled Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy’s aides, Ramesh Babu reports.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today announced Rs. 5 lakh each for the patients who tested HIV-positive after receiving blood from a state-run hospital. He also said the government would bear the medical expenses for the treatment of the victims.

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan will raise environmental issues, which are blocking the city’s infrastructure projects, before the Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday.

The Christian minority school in Borivli (West) is being pressurised to admit students by not just a local Shiv Sena leader, but also by the police and Mantralaya officials.

During the admission season, principals of some of city’s reputed schools and colleges keep their mobile phones switched off to escape calls from politicians trying to secure seats for students recommended by them.

Former Bihar minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey's two relatives were killed while he survived nature's fury at Kedarnath in Uttarakhand, a state where 300 people from Bihar are missing.

Though the results for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) were already declared on June 5, the delay in the pre-admission counselling is making medical aspirants nervous.

Charge: Left Front alleges torture of backward class candidates