New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has dismissed all reports of his being in the race for Presidency as baseless.

NEW DELHI: There is hardly anything odd about American IT firms moving back office jobs to low cost destinations like India, but a California daily is recruiting journalists here to report what's happening 12,841 km away in Pasadena.

NEW DELHI: Prakash Amte, son of well-known social worker, Baba Amte, was denied visa to travel to USA because he is too poor and has no known source of income. In 1993 however, he did visit the USA and no objections were raised then.

LUCKNOW: Stitching a rainbow arrangement that included Brahmins, Mayawati's BSP on May 11 scored a spectacular victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, securing an absolute majority on its own to end 15 years of coalition politics in the state.

NEW DELHI: There is no question of the United States or any other country pressurizing India on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, Lok Sabha was informed. "There is no question of the US or any other country interfering in India's internal affairs. I can assure the House there is no such fear and India cannot be pressurized," Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said.

NEW DELHI: US lawmakers' letter pressing India to back off from its engagements with Iran to save the nuclear deal drew sharp reaction in the Rajya Sabha from government's Left allies and Opposition BJP which demanded a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.

NEW DELHI: Raising questions about the creeping trend of "crony capitalism", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said industrialization could not depend only on large corporate groups and the country needed small and medium units for both growth and employment.

AHMEDABAD: Geetha Johri, the senior cop who headed the team that conducted a preliminary inquiry into the fake encounter, has taken charge as the Supervisory Officer of CID (Crime) probing the 2005 incident.

PATNA: RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin faces disqualification from contesting elections in future after a court here sentenced him to life imprisonment for the abduction of a CPI-ML-Liberation worker eight years ago.

KHADOOR SAHIB, Punjab: The Gyan Sewa Trust has organizing a 25- day Crash Course at Khadoor Sahib, where the faculty from Delhi is staying continuously for 25 days.