NEW DELHI: Guarded by about 17,000 security personnel, the Beijing Olympic torch was taken through a 2.3 km stretch in the national Capital without any disruption on April 17 amid anti-China protests by Tibetans close to the area.

The majestic Rajpath witnessed unprecedented security for a symbolic event which was smooth and incident free. The Prime Minister's office and Ministries of Defense, External Affairs and Finance lining the torch route from Rashtrapati Bhavan remained closed for five hours.

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.