The Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra were posthumously awarded to Major David Manlun and Major Satish Dahiya, who lost their lives while fighting with terrorists in Nagaland and Jammu and Kashmir.
In an unprecedented move, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting award, will be conferred on four athletes this year. The Sports Ministry announced on Monday that Olympic medalists P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik will be honoured alongside trail-blazing gymnast Dipa Karmakar and ace shooter Jitu Rai.
A senior Air India executive has won a libel case against a British newspaper, which had alleged that he sexually harassed a female colleague and was a 'serial sex pest'. Captain Ashwini Kumar Sharma, an army captain and former aide-de-camp to the Indian president, who is now an executive director of the airline at its Mumbai headquarters, has been awarded 85,000 pounds in damages and 500,000 pounds in cost.
The court adjourned the hearing in the case to October 27.
Reader Ashok Kumar Sharma sent us a picture of Jaspal Rana from Doha.
India cricket captain Virat Kohli and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu were on Monday recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna by the awards selection committee.
A Delhi court on Friday issued non-bailable warrants against Maharashtra Navanirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and its spokesperson Shirish Parkar on a complaint about their alleged hate speeches against the people of Bihar.
India also said Bangladesh was carrying out a disinformation campaign.
Rejecting former Army Chief General V K Singh's denial about claiming payment of cash to ruling politicians in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir legislative council has summon the general to appear in person before its privilege committee on January 9, 2014.
'Virat is a born captain. He used to be the captain in the academy as well in childhood'
The decision is in response to the strike call given by United Forum Of Bank Unions, which has more than 10 lakh (1 million) employees and officers of banking Industry under its umbrella.
'I am in the NDA as of now,' Kushwaha said.
Komal Singh and Manohar Dodia were the witnesses who turned hositle
The Grandmaster defeated Dinesh Kumar Sharma in the 8th round of the National 'A' chess championship.
The court also questioned how Amrapali Group could mortgage the entire projects and secure loan worth thousands of crores of rupees from banks when it was only an agent to develop the property.
The high court set aside and quashed the recommendations of the sentence review board (SRB) which had rejected Sharma's representation for pre-mature release.
The accused has no political affiliation, initial probe suggests.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a person in connection with the alleged human trafficking of people to Germany, a case in which Special Secretary of External Affairs Ministry Rakesh Kumar has also been named.
Vijay Kumar Sharma, the alleged mastermind behind one of the country's biggest and most widespread cheating cases, the JVG Group scam involving nearly Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion), was arrested in New Delhi.
The apex body for accountants, ICAI, on Friday said it will seek explanation from R S Lodha on the structure of his audit firms following a complaint for alleged breach of its Code of Ethics and flouting of Companies Act.
The cross-border firing has forced many to take shelter in government-run camps.
The court was disposing of a public interest petition praying for suitable medical facilities at railway stations and platforms and establishment of stalls and shops selling life-saving drugs.
The bench also made it clear that only the court-appointed forensic auditors -- Ravi Bhatia and Pawan Kumar Aggarwal -- and persons authorised by them would enter these premises after they were sealed.
The woman Grandmaster achieved the norm after splitting points with Dinesh Kumar Sharma in the ninth round of the Parsvanath International Chess Championship.
Virat Kohli sent the shutterbugs into a clicking frenzy as he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
'In many parts of the country, the empty nest-and-empty-nest egg story is a painful boom-to-bust saga.' 'Among the old and young, it is hitting pockets hard, in a linked chain of debt-laden banks, corrupt politicians and builder mafias and disastrous government policies,' says Sunil Sethi.
The Naxals used over 50 kilogram of explosives in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, about a year after a dozen jawans were killed in a similar ambush in the district.
Raj Kumar Sharma and Manmohan Menani, directors of Barrel Trading and Investment Company in Kolkata, were arrested in connection with the Rs 120 crore scam at the Calcutta Stock Exchange in March, 2001, the police said.
Marathi film Shalya has been directed by Hemant Kumar Sharma and produced by Ashok Gajanan Chaugule.
Coal Secretary Anil Swarup has been appointed as school education secretary.
Indian journalists, who went to cover the SAARC Home Ministers' conference in Islamabad, had to face hostile Pakistani officials.
Bollywood remembers their daddies on Father's Day.
Singh was arrested by Uttar Pradesh special task force team from a house in Chinni Mill locality.
A Delhi court on Wednesday remanded Kuber group chief Pradyumna Kumar Sharma to judicial custody for 14 days after the proclaimed offender, wanted in cases of cheating, was produced before it.
The Supreme Court on Friday termed as a "serious matter" the issue of alleged mysterious death of special Central Bureau of Investigation judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, and sought response from the Maharashtra government on pleas seeking an independent probe into it.
New Horizons India Ltd -- the joint venture between US-based New Horizons Worldwide and Shriram Global Technologies -- will invest Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) in the next three years to set up 250 IT Training Centres.
