A Delhi court on Thursday handed a four-year jail term to former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly and two others for corruption in a purported defence deal two decades ago, a lawyer said. Special C...

Former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly and two others have been convicted in a two-decade-old defence corruption case, stemming from a sting operation by the Tehelka news portal. Special judge Vir...

Sir — It is worrying that endangered shark species such as hammerhead and spiny dogfish are being sold surreptitiously in Britain. Names like rock salmon or huss are being used while labelling dishe...

Veteran socialist George Fernandes, who was the defence minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, passed away on Tuesday following prolonged illness, his long-time associate Jaya Jaitly said. H...

The Centre has awarded gallantry medals posthumously to two pilots and “mention-in-despatches” to four other Indian Air Force Personnel who were killed in friendly fire on February 27 last year.Th...

Sir — There is a popular Bengali adage that claims that for Bengalis there are baro mashey, tero parbon (thirteen festivals in twelve months). In fact, there is a fourteenth festival that should be ...

Elections are near, and trust the hard-boiled politician to drop his presence on to any available publicity plate. The Union minister for civil supplies and consumer affairs, Ram Vilas Paswan, we are ...

As minister for Jammu and Kashmir affairs briefly in the V.P. Singh government, George Fernandes flew to Srinagar and vanished. The Valley was smouldering in the grip of a violent insurgency at the ti...