Written By Sindhu Manjesh

Little is publicly known about Vikram Aggarwal, the Chennai hotelier police want to question over his suspected involvement in the Indian Premier League or IPL betting scam. What's known is that Mr Aggarwal runs a hotel business. He heads VVA Hotels Private Limited, which owns two franchise properties in Chennai - the swank 129-room business hotel ...

Mahendra Karma, who was shot dead by suspected Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma region on May 25, had been on their hit-list for a long time. He was, after all, the architect of the Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Naxal vigilante movement that he founded in 2005.

It's a whitewash for the BJP in Karnataka's coastal districts -- Dakshina Kannada, home to Mangalore, and Udupi. In Dakshina Kannada, the BJP lost all the eight Assembly segments to the Congress and in Udupi, it won just a single seat out of five.

Press Council of India chief Justice Markandey Katju has sent a written appeal to the President of India seeking pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to five years in jail by the Supreme Court last week in a case related to the 1993 Bombay blasts. He has also sought pardon for another Bombay blasts convict, 71-year-old Zaibunissa Anwar K...

Shared autos, empty roads: a working woman on navigating Ghaziabad alone

As the price of onions continues to rise in Delhi, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has written to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, asking him to intervene and adopt a "tougher" stand against hoarders.

Even as the family of the seven-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped in a toilet in her school in Goa, deals with the trauma, shockingly insensitive comments were made to them by an official of the Mormugao Port Trust, which runs the school.

All Pakistani hockey players in the Hockey India League (HIL) will return home. The decision to send back the players comes in the wake of protests by some political groups against their participation in HIL games after recent cease-fire violations by Pakistan, and the barbaric killing of two Indian jawans by Pakistani troops. Meanwhile, sources sa...

As protests over the Delhi gang-rape simmer in India, the case has fired the imagination of the Indian diaspora in the UK. Members of the Indian community here are protesting almost on a daily basis, asking for change and standing in solidarity with 'Amanat'

The brutal gang-rape case in Delhi has stirred state governments across the country to initiate steps to improve security for women, and review law enforcement mechanisms.

The father of a Canadian woman of Indian origin, who has been missing in Pakistan for nearly five months, has appealed to the Lahore High Court as he attempts to trace his daughter.

In a bid to make public transport in Delhi safer, the Delhi government today decided to double the number of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses that ply along the capital's routes at night. Additionally, home guards will be deployed on buses at night to ensure the safety of passengers.

Little is publicly known about Vikram Aggarwal, the Chennai hotelier police want to question over his suspected involvement in the Indian Premier League or IPL betting scam. What's known is that Mr Aggarwal runs a hotel business. He heads VVA Hotels Private Limited, which owns two franchise properties in Chennai - the swank 129-room business hotel ...

Mahendra Karma, who was shot dead by suspected Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma region on May 25, had been on their hit-list for a long time. He was, after all, the architect of the Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Naxal vigilante movement that he founded in 2005.

It's a whitewash for the BJP in Karnataka's coastal districts -- Dakshina Kannada, home to Mangalore, and Udupi. In Dakshina Kannada, the BJP lost all the eight Assembly segments to the Congress and in Udupi, it won just a single seat out of five.

Press Council of India chief Justice Markandey Katju has sent a written appeal to the President of India seeking pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to five years in jail by the Supreme Court last week in a case related to the 1993 Bombay blasts. He has also sought pardon for another Bombay blasts convict, 71-year-old Zaibunissa Anwar K...

Shared autos, empty roads: a working woman on navigating Ghaziabad alone

As the price of onions continues to rise in Delhi, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has written to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, asking him to intervene and adopt a "tougher" stand against hoarders.

Even as the family of the seven-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped in a toilet in her school in Goa, deals with the trauma, shockingly insensitive comments were made to them by an official of the Mormugao Port Trust, which runs the school.

All Pakistani hockey players in the Hockey India League (HIL) will return home. The decision to send back the players comes in the wake of protests by some political groups against their participation in HIL games after recent cease-fire violations by Pakistan, and the barbaric killing of two Indian jawans by Pakistani troops. Meanwhile, sources sa...

As protests over the Delhi gang-rape simmer in India, the case has fired the imagination of the Indian diaspora in the UK. Members of the Indian community here are protesting almost on a daily basis, asking for change and standing in solidarity with 'Amanat'

The brutal gang-rape case in Delhi has stirred state governments across the country to initiate steps to improve security for women, and review law enforcement mechanisms.

The father of a Canadian woman of Indian origin, who has been missing in Pakistan for nearly five months, has appealed to the Lahore High Court as he attempts to trace his daughter.

In a bid to make public transport in Delhi safer, the Delhi government today decided to double the number of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses that ply along the capital's routes at night. Additionally, home guards will be deployed on buses at night to ensure the safety of passengers.