NEW DELHI: Seeking to highlight Chinese atrocities in their "homeland" during the Olympic torch run here, Tibetan refugees staged demonstrations across the capital and took out a parallel "torch relay" resulting in clashes with police at various places.

NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader L K Advani, who once faced flak from the RSS for dubbing Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah a secular leader, has said he learnt the meaning of the word secularism from none other than M S Golwalkar, the Sangh ideologue.

NEW DELHI: The Government has decided to exclude the socially and economically advanced among the OBCs from the ambit of 27 percent quota in higher educational institutions.

NEW DELHI: India says it did not misread the situation in Nepal, where the Maoists romped to a surprise victory in the recent elections to the Constituent Assembly.

SRINAGAR: The University of Kashmir and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service Trust have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to launch a two-year project for promoting social affairs reporting in Kashmir.

NEW DELHI: Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, present in "large" numbers across the country, pose a grave threat to India's internal security, a Parliamentary panel has noted.

NEW DELHI: Settling the controversial reservation issue in education, the Supreme Court has upheld the law providing 27 per cent quota for OBCs in IITs, IIMs and other central educational institutions and said the "creamy layer" cannot enjoy the benefit. With the court clearing the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 the elite institutions may have to implement the quota in the 2008-09 academic session.

NEW DELHI: The 27 per cent quota for OBC students in Central institutions of higher learning, including IITs and IIMs, would be introduced in phases, HRD Minister Arjun Singh said here.

ITANAGAR: In what could raise the hackles of China, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been invited to inaugurate a hospital at Tawang.