NEW DELHI: Describing India's strategic engagement with the US as a "national tragedy", Left parties warned the government of "serious consequences" if the civil nuclear deal is operationalized and insisted on considering the "sense" of Parliament on the matter.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court declined to grant urgent hearing to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's interim bail application and fixed August 20 to take it up.

NEW DELHI: Parliament paid glowing tributes to former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar with both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha adjourning for the day as a mark of respect to the late leader and six other members who died recently.

NEW DELHI: Even as the government and broadcasters are battling over the content code, the internet protocol television (IPTV) has quietly made its presence felt in India, opening a backdoor to unregulated adult content and a host of channels which are not permitted in the country.

NEW DELHI: Kiran Bedi has been a fighter. She has faced injustices at every step in her profession, but she took them on and surmounted them, not considering them injustices. "But this incident, is the ultimate, the end of it," she told India Post in an exclusive interview.

BANGALORE: Back home after a 27-day ordeal, Mohammed Haneef said he wants Australia to apologize to India for his detention on terror charges and vowed to return there and fight to get his work visa back.

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Women and Child Development Renuka Choudhary came out in defense of her senior cabinet colleague Arjun Singh against whom a dowry harassment complaint has been filed.

CHANDIGARH: Jagtar Singh Hawara and Balwant Singh, two of the six convicts, in the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, were awarded death sentence by a Special Court here.

NEW DELHI: Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first woman President with pomp and ceremony and pledged to live up to the "high expectations" of those who elected her and to serve the best interests of the people of the country.