It has been a roller coaster ride for Ajay Singh of Panchoor village of Pauri region in Uttarakhand. Born on June 5, 1972, became an MP barely after turning 26, that too from a faraway land - Gorakhpur in eastern UP.

BHOPAL: Special Task Force (STF) has made over 1,000 arrests in multi-crore MPPEB scam, largely on basis of names found on excel sheet retrieved from hard disk of a key player in the scam,

MUMBAI: Amid indications that a nuclear deal could be in the offing, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived here on Thursday morning on a two-day India visit during which the two countries would look at ways to deepen strategic ties and strengthen two-way trade and commerce.

NEW DELHI: Justice H L Dattu is set to become the next Chief Justice of India. Moving swiftly, the government on Monday cleared his appointment to the topmost judicial post, promptly clearing the file it received from Chief Justice of India R M Lodha on Friday.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday took exception to reported remarks of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy that he had advised the Sri Lankan government not to release the boats of Tamil Nadu fishermen.

JAMMU: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday reiterated the need for talks between India and Pakistan to restore peace in the region.

MUMBAI: The Modi government's cleanliness drive saw 11,000 home ministry files being disposed of within a month of it assuming office, but what remains shrouded in secrecy two months later is what files were destroyed and the method of destruction.

JAMMU: Almost a fortnight after a secret tunnel was discovered running underneath the India-Pakistan border at Pallanwalla in Akhnoor, the army authorities on Tuesday said it was 150 metres long. Ground-penetrating radar and other equipment were used to establish the length of the tunnel.

NEW DELHI: The NDA government went into a damage control mode on Monday with a controversy erupting over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plans to address school children on Teachers' Day,

HYDERABAD: Ending months of suspense, the ChandrababuNaidu government on Monday decided that Andhra Pradesh's new capital will be built in and around Vijayawada.