Health ministers and officials from BJP-ruled states will attend a workshop at SEARCH (Society for Education,Action and Research in Community Health),an NGO run by activist Abhay Bang,in Gadchiroli on Monday to understand a model of bringing down child deaths.
Bombay High Court (HC) has upheld the conviction of a couple that committed a murder in 2001 at Sakinaka.
New Minority Commission Chairman submits report to Chief Minister.
Closed-circuit cameras may be installed in govt offices to check corruption: BMC chief.
CBI is for the first time probing the role of Mumbai Police in an inter-state fake encounter.
Punjab on Saturday demanded Rs 5,000 crore in 12th Five year Plan for crop diversification in the state and asked the Centre to prepare a roadmap to bring the state out of wheat-paddy cultivation.
Three persons were killed while five others were grievously injured after an explosion in the busy Samrala Chowk area of the city on Saturday.
A Ludhiana man who has been leading a fight against illegal sand mining in his village,was allegedly brutally beaten up by a group of men owing allegiance to the sand mafia late on Friday.
Promising more reforms and to address issues of concern to the economy,Finance Minister P Chidambaram said Saturday that there is a need to re-energise the capital markets and bring investors in.
Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig,the only accused arrested so far in the German Bakery blast case,was Saturday identified in court by an autorickshaw driver,who claimed to have driven him.
We are going back to the Eighties,to Jarnail Singh Bhindrawales time... Its starting all over again, Lt Gen (retd) K S Brar warns.
Anna Hazares Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolans Delhi office will temporarily be located in a flat under Kiran Bedis possession.
As many as eight Nagpur police officers have landed in Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) net in the past year.
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has called a meeting of MLAs from Mumbai next Thursday to discuss delays in redevelopment projects of dilapidated MHADA buildings.
Deceased is younger brother of city Congress secretary Raman Thavkar.
A day after the Congress targeted him for seeking Central funds for Gosikhurd irrigation project in Vidarbha,BJP chief Nitin Gadkari Saturday hit back.
Stating that the white paper on irrigation promised by the Maharashtra government will be no more than a whitewash,state BJP asked for the inclusion of a number of points,issues and facts while the white paper is being drafted.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) expressed deep anguish and shock over the recommendation of Congress party Sheila Dikshit led-Government of Delhi to pardon Kishori Lal,convicted for the murder of seven Sikhs in the 1984 Sikh massacre and said that this move hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal,on Friday,urged the Union Defence Minister A K Antony to personally intervene and ask the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to grant Sepoy Jaspal Singh amnesty.
Mandeep Singh,a resident of Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan and accused of two murders,was nabbed by city police on Tuesday.
Terming Mohammad Sadiques claim that he is a Sikh and not a Muslim as a camouflage,former state principal secretary Darbara Singh Guru countered Sadiques claim in Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday.
The Human Empowerment League of Punjab (HELP),a Nawanshahr-based NGO,had filed a complaint with the Punjab Human Rights Commission,Punjab health minister and chief parliamentary secretary to take action against people concerned,as the woman was deprived of her fundamental right.
The callous attitude of the state health department has been getting exposed through the sorry tales that have been coming to light,time and again.
In a major twist in the case involving alleged kidnapping of a minor girl,the Punjab Police has received a letter allegedly written by the girl and sent from Pahargarh area in New Delhi.
Members of the Kisan Morcha Bharatiya Janta Party and farmers from Punjab and Haryana on Friday staged a protest and raised slogans against Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs anti-agriculture policies.


