The police opened fire at Soyla village in Rajasthan's Tonk district on Monday, killing five villagers, including a woman, on the spot. After teargas and lathicharge failed to quell a violent mob

The president of the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, Harsh Vardhan, demanded on Monday that the Chief Minister issue a White Paper on the arrangements made for cleaning all the small and big

The 13th session of the un Commission for Sustainable Development (csd), which steers the development agenda agreed upon at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992, was a damp squib. The 11-day meet

chineseprime minister Wen Jiabao's four-day visit to India from April 9-12, 2005 opened hitherto unexplored vistas of friendship between the two nations, albeit driven by economic and strategic considerations. The world's most populous nations established the India-China Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, a giant step for improving bilateral relations.

The Rs 300-crore Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan to the Corporation of Cochin, Kerala, will be used for improving drainage, sewerage, solid waste management and transportation considering the need

State Human Rights Commission member S. Varghese has directed the Kerala State Government to drop the move to drain the Vellayani lake for agricultural purposes. The commission directed Kerala