NEW DELHI: The jostling in Congress over tickets for Haryana elections seems to signal a power shift away from Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the state unit.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for "minimum government, maximum governance" has had an unusual impact: the merger of National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) into department of health. Officials in the health ministry claim the move will help streamline the service but activists have slammed it saying the decision deals a deadly blow to the decade-long efforts for HIV prevention and care.

BANGALORE: The VIII additional chief metropolitan magistrate on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against Karthik Gowda, 28, son of railway minister DV Sadananda Gowda who has not appeared for questioning in a rape case against him.

 COIMBATORE: Urging people to become participatory citizens in the changing India under Narendra Modi's leadership, social activist Kiran Bedi on Thursday said she had noticed tightening of bureaucracy and shifting of foreign policy during the 100-day rule of NDA government.

NEW DELHI: For maximum registration of voters ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls, the Election Commission has sent over 26 lakh letters along with the enrollment form to people whose names were deleted in Mumbai, Thane and Pune.

MUMBAI: Over 17 years after the encounter deaths of alleged gangsters Javed Fawda, Sada Pawle and Vijay Tandel rocked Mumbai, the Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the issue of extra-judicial killings.

SINGAPORE: Hard-headed bean counters are busy auditing the economic gains of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Japan but the PM seems to have shrewdly used "soft power" symbolism to boost the profile of a visit billed as a major international engagement.

LUCKNOW: Political opposition notwithstanding, the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has made elaborate arrangements to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech reaches lakhs of students in the state this Teachers' Day.

NEW DELHI: The defence ministry continues to stonewall repeated attempts by the Army to get official sanctity and notification for its Operation Falcon, which was launched way back in 1986 along the border in Arunachal Pradesh to counter Chinese incursions in the region.

LUCKNOW: The hospital sojourn of former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife - both serving life sentence in Madhumita Shukla murder case - has come to an end. Senior superintendent of Gorakhpur district jail SK Sharma confirmed on Wednesday evening that he has received a letter from the prison headquarters to send the couple back to Dehradun jail.