Pramod Kumar, PTI

Guj: EC rejects Cong candidate's nomination form

The Election Commission on Monday rejected the nomination papers of the Congress candidate for Visavadar for not providing original mandate in time, paving the way for a straight fight between former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel and the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate.

Army Chief to meet PM on strike corps along China border

Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh is expected to take up the issue of raising an offensive Corps including around one lakh soldiers along the China border in a presentation soon to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the shortages faced by the 1.3 million-strong force.

Jethmalani challenges BJP to take action against him

A belligerent Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Ram Jethmalani, who attacked the party for its criticism on the appointment of the new Central Bureau of Investigation director, on Sunday challenged the party leadership to take action against him for his stand on the issue.

'Inquiry into Savita's death to be finished by Christmas'

The probe into Savita Halappanavar's death will be completed before Christmas, Ireland's Health Minister has said, even as her distraught husband was considering lodging a complaint with the Ombudsman to assert ownership of his wife's medical notes.

Shatrughan endorses Jethmalani's view on CBI director

After supporting Ram Jethmalani and Yashwant Sinha's demand of resignation by Nitin Gadkari as the Bharatiya Janata Party chief, party leader Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday sided with Jethmalani again on appointment of Ranjit Sinha as new Central Bureau of Investigation director, saying there was no ground to initiate disciplinary action against the lawyer-turned politician.

Alok Joshi to be new RAW chief

Senior Indian Police Service officer Alok Joshi will be the new chief of the Research and Analysis Wing and Syed Asif Ibrahim will be the next Director of Intelligence Bureau, the first Muslim to head it with four officers senior to him having been shifted out.

Muharram: Security heightened in parts of Srinagar

Ponty case: Pistol recovered from Namdhari's farmhouse

In a breakthrough in the ongoing probe into Ponty Chadha murder case, the Delhi police on Sunday recovered a pistol allegedly used during the farmhouse shootout from sacked Uttarakhand Minority Commission Chairman Sukhbir Singh Namdhari's residence in Uttarakhand's Bajpur town.

Visas for Pak cricket lovers on showing return tickets

The government may issue a multi-city visa to Pakistani cricket lovers planning to witness the forthcoming cricket series beginning December 25 if they provide tickets of the matches and return ticket besides having an Indian sponsor.

I wasn't put up by Congress: R P Singh

Former Comptroller and Auditor General official R P Singh, who has stirred a controversy, has rejected the allegations that the Congress has put him up to defend the government on the audit report on 2G spectrum allocation which had estimated the presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.

All party meeting on Parliament stalemate over FDI tomorrow

Faced with a deadlock in Parliament over FDI in retail, Government has convened an all-party meeting in New Delhi on Monday as the Left and the Right have remained adamant on discussion under a rule that entails voting.