India's N-E landlocked, B'desh only...: Yunus pitch to China

Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has urged Beijing to extend its economic influence to Bangladesh, controversially mentioning that India's northeastern states being landlocked could prove to......

Zakia Jafri, wife of ex-Cong MP killed in 2002 Gujarat riots, dies

Zakia Jafri, the wife of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, died on Saturday in Ahmedabad at the age of 86.  IMAGE: Zakia Jafri shows a photograph of her......

Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt acquitted in 1997 custodial torture case

A court in Gujarat's Porbandar has acquitted former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1997 custodial torture case, citing that the prosecution could not "prove the case beyond reasonable doubt".......

Foreign secretary raises safety of minorities in Bangladesh

India on Monday flagged "regrettable incidents" of attacks on minorities in Bangladesh at a meeting in Dhaka between the foreign secretaries of the two countries, where Dhaka called it 'misleading......

PowerMin nudges states, gencos to take up insolvent assets

To tackle increasing demand, the Union ministry of power has urged central and state public-sector power-generating companies (gencos) and state power and energy departments to pick projects that......