NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday announced a moratorium on Bt brinjal till scientific studies established it as completely safe.

A day after NCP chief Sharad Pawar met Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, the Congress on Monday fired a fresh salvo against the Agriculture Minister reminding him of his responsibility to contain food inflation.

Ranchi/Patna Ahead of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram''s meeting in Kolkata to discuss strategies to counter Maoists threat, in an audacious strike, the Naxals blew up a stretch of the railway tracks in Jharkhand's Giridih district on the third day ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the plea of a CBI inquiry into the post-Godhra communal riot cases of Gujarat which are currently being probed by the SC-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).

NEW DELHI: In a strong signal to Uttar Pradesh's minority community, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Azamgarh for an interaction with college students.

NEW DELHI: BJP is contemplating raising the number of general secretaries from seven to nine at the national level, to provide more representation to women and other sections.

NEW DELHI: A week before West Bengal announced `Muslim quota', the Centre had rapped the state on the knuckles for giving mere 7% reservation to OBCs which was at least 20% less than the provision made by other states.

AHMEDABAD: Nobody had really bothered about the low-profile introvert, Utsav Sharma, 29, a student of Animation Film Design (AFD) programme at the country's premier design school, NID, till he posed as a journalist and jabbed a knife into the cheek of ...

NEW DELHI: Allahabad High Court will now decide in four months the legality of huge spending from public exchequer, alleged to be over Rs 2000 crore, by the Mayawati government on building memorials for dalit leaders and installing their statues in ...

NEW DELHI: Overseas Indian affairs minister Vayalar Ravi, who suffered injuries after meeting with a road accident on February 4 while on an official visit to Liberia, will be flown to Chennai on Wednesday in a special aircraft.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to overcome a diplomatic hiccup with India, Turkey has promised to work alongside New Delhi on counter-terrorism.

FOR REGION'S GROWTH: Union Home Secretary GK Pillai (left) with Adviser of the All Assam Students Union Samujjal Bhattacharya at the 58th meeting of the North Eastern Council in Guwahati on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI/MELBOURNE: Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith on Tuesday said the series of attacks against Indians in his country was inexcusable and said Australia needed to view the matter seriously.

PANAJI: Chief minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday flushed down the toilet Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's claim that he had agreed to negotiate on the Mhadei issue.

The Centre on Tuesday said it was contemplating a separate law with tougher provisions to curb child pornography, saying it was concerned about the lack of stringency in cyber laws to deal with the menace.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will hold an inter-ministerial discussion on India's offer to hold foreign secretary-level talks and is expected to take a tough line, as it is interested in engaging New Delhi in a result-oriented talk instead of an open-ended talk ...

SRINAGAR/KULLU/MANALI: Kashmir Valley's snow-related death toll mounted to 20 in two days, as two security personnel and a civilian were killed in separate incidents on Tuesday.

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: With inclement weather conditions hindering the clearance and restoration work at several places along the 300-Km stretch, Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for traffic for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday.

PATNA: A major stretch of the state capital - from Bhikhana Pahari Mor to Naya Tola Mor - turned into a virtual war zone on Tuesday with students and owners of coaching institutes fighting a pitched battle after the students hit the streets in protest ...

MUMBAI: It's a pink Valentine's Day this year. From greeting cards to fur handcuffs, the city's gay and lesbian community is swamped with choices to celebrate the “day of love'', the first after the the historic 2009 verdict of the Delhi high court ...