New Delhi: Finding eight of its personnel, who were caught on camera, stripping, kicking and beating a Bangladeshi national along the Indo-Bangla border, as prima facie guilty, the BSF has ordered court martial proceedings against them.

New Delhi: India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 in New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court took strong objection to the Delhi Police's mid-night crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev's supporters saying unlawfully depriving a person from sleep is a violation of his fundamental rights.

NEW DELHI: The Centre suffered a huge embarrassment in the Supreme Court on Thursday when its counsel termed homosexuality as immoral, disregarding the decision of the Union Cabinet not to oppose the Delhi High Court's verdict on Section 377 of Indian Penal Code decriminalizing consensual sex among gay adults.

Srinagar: Twin avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir have left 16 Army jawans dead. The avalanches occurred in the Sonmarg and Gurez areas near the Line of Control.

New Delhi, Feb 24: In a huge embarrassment to the Government, the Supreme Court on Thursday  came down heavily on the State and the Delhi police for the midnight crackdown on Ramdev and his followers here last year and sought criminal prosecution as well as disciplinary action against erring police personnel.

Mumbai:  Saif Ali Khan has filed a counter complaint with the Mumbai police against Iqbal Sharma, the man who claims that the actor assaulted him and fractured his nose at a restaurant late on Tuesday night. In his complaint, Saif has alleged that Mr Sharma's father-in-law punched him first and that the duo abused the women who were accompanying him at the restaurant.

Chennai, Feb 23 :  Five persons, all North Indians,  were  shot dead in an encounter  early this morning for their alleged involvement in a bank robbery case here, police said.

"Five persons were shot dead around 1 am in connection with the bank robbery case," Commissioner of Police J K Tripathy told  newspersons.

New Delhi: Baba Ramdev and Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy did not incite any communal passion, leading to the beating up of a man by their followers for throwing black ink on yoga guru’s face in a press meet here, the city police told a Delhi court today.

New Delhi, Feb 22: President Pratibha Patil, it seems, has been the most merciful of all presidents during the last three decades as she has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment during her tenure, which is over 90 per cent of the total pardon granted since 1981.