India

New Delhi, April 24: NRI kids Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) Bhattacharya on Tuesday finally return to their family in India after a Norwegian court ruled that their custody should be handed over to their uncle. The flight carrying the NRI kids landed at the New Delhi airport on Tuesday morning. This brings to an end a family tragedy that grabbed headlines in India, disrupted ties between New

New Delhi, April 24: India has finally decided to cut down on brain drain that is crippling its medical sector. Now, US-bound doctors for higher medical studies will have to sign a bond with the ministry and honour the document by returning home after finishing their courses. Union health Ghulam Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the US is insisting on a government No Objection Certificate (NOC) for every

New Delhi, April 24: The leading fertiliser producing cooperative in the country, Kribhco, is under a cloud following a controversial joint venture takeover of an ailing fertiliser plant at Shahjanpur in Uttar Pradesh at an inflated cost. Kribhco, a multi state co-operative society under the administrative control of the Union Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers, purchased the ailing Oswal

New Delhi, April 24: Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and Delhi Police were involved in a conspiracy of "terrifying proportions" during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, CBI has told a trial court. Sajjan Kumar and five others, Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal are facing trial for killing six people in the Delhi cantonment area during the riots. The trial

New Delhi, April 23: Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the chairperson of Parliament Standing Committee on Law and Justice and as the Congress spokesperson following the CD controversy. After the CD allegedly featuring Singhvi surfaced, the Congress sidelined him and removed him from party's official spokespersons roster. Singhvi was the Vice-President of Congress's media

New Delhi, April 23: The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition challenging the appointment of Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh as the next chief of army staff. Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh will succeed General V.K. Singh as the army chief when the latter demits office on May 31, 2012. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice H.L. Gokhale, while dismissing the petition by Admiral Ramdas and six

New Delhi, Apr 23: As fresh cracks appeared in Team Anna after the expulsion of a Muslim leader, Anna Hazare today said there is no rift in the group over the ''leakage'' of information or yoga guru Ramdev. In his first reaction after the expulsion of Mufti Shameem Kazmi after he was allegedly found recording the proceedings of Core Committee meeting in Noida in UP, Hazare said that there is no

Bijlipur (Punjab), April 23: For some time now, the village of Bijlipur has been attracting a slew of local news TV crews and even reporters from Canadian radio stations. The village has something that most of Punjab can't boast of: a sex ratio in favour of women. The state of Punjab, along with Haryana, is among the country's worst performers when it comes to sex ratio. Census 2011 figures record

New Delhi, April 23: From running a single franchise store for 12 years in Delhi to planning to open 200 more across Mumbai, Delhi and smaller cities, Pakistan's largest fashion retail chain Sefam is the stuff businesses dream of. After a successful showing at the first-ever Lifestyle Pakistan exhibition in Delhi, Sefam said the demand for Pakistani couture in India is too huge to be met through

New Delhi, April 23: More than two months after the attack on an Israeli diplomat in the capital, the Central Forensic Science Laboratory has identified trinitrotoluene (TNT) as the explosive material used in the strike. The 31-page forensic report was handed over to Delhi Police at a time when a team is getting ready to leave for Tehran to probe the role of three Iranians - Houshang Afshar Irani