Home Minister offers to quit after Dantewada massacre of CRPF jawans; BJP wants him to stay on and fight

A study titled Shadow In The Clouds, compiled by Canadian and American researchers in the University of Toronto, says Indian systems were compromised

On a day when the whole of India stayed tuned to know what was up in the Headley case as the suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative got ready to appear before a Chicago court to plead guilty to charges of terrorism, top US intelligence official Dennis C Blair met union India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi to discuss many an issue related to terror triggered off from Pak soil.

Even as Pakistani-American David Headley pleaded guilty and saved himself from a severe penalty at a Chicago court, India’s concerns over getting him to the country for interrogation have been compounded, to say the least.

With the government changing its mind all of a sudden, the introduction of the much talked about Civil Nuclear Liability Bill has been deferred.

New Delhi: Both the Congress party, the main partner of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-led government at the Centre, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main Opposition, have issued whip in the Rajya Sabha asking all their MPs to vote in favour of the Women’s Reservation Bill.

Pravin Mahajan was convicted of killing his brother Pramod Mahajan

New Delhi: The Opposition, even while grilling the Central Government in the Rajya Sabha for the rising prices of essential commodities, alleged “scam” in the imports of sugar. Sharad Pawar, Union Minister for Food and Agriculture, rejected the Opposition’s allegation.

Two British nationals arrested for ‘suspicious activities’ near Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi

India and China raised sharply their defence expenditure in 2009 notwithstanding the global economic depression even as most European members of the NATO are facing a pinch on defence budgets owing to their big deficits.