NEW DELHI: BJP raked up the Taslima Nasreen issue again with its senior leader L K Advani saying the government was planning to "expel" her from the country on expiry of her visa next month and demanded that she be allowed to lead a normal life in West Bengal.

LUCKNOW: Congress lashed out at the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh for recommending CBI inquiry into the communally sensitive CD allegedly released by BJP ahead of assembly polls saying it appeared to be aimed at "saving the skin" of those named in the case including saffron party chief Rajnath Singh.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that heinous offences like dacoity, money-laundering and other offences like moral turpitude, particularly when they are directed against women, should be dealt with exemplary punishment and no leniency should be shown towards the accused.

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, cricket genius Sachin Tendulkar, melody queen Asha Bhosle and industrialist Ratan Tata were today chosen for Padma Vibhushan, the nation's second highest civilian award, but no one was named for highest award Bharat Ratna around which there has been a political controversy.

NEW DELHI: He was just days away from flying home to see his first child when he led his men in a bloody encounter with intruding militants in Kashmir valley and rescued a colleague caught in the firing line but the brave Major Dinesh Raghu Raman lost his life.

NEW DELHI: Former President K R Narayanan's wife Usha, who carved a niche for herself as a champion of social and women's issues, died today in a city hospital after ailing for sometime.

NEW DELHI: An AIIMS-like Ayurveda institute will be set up in the capital to carry out clinical research, drug safety evaluation and scientific validation of the traditional Indian system of medicine.

MUMBAI: Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman, who made significant contributions in the Test series against Australia, were left out by the selectors in picking up of the Indian squad for the tri-series Down Under, also featuring Australia and Sri Lanka.

MUMBAI: Six years after Bilkis Bano was raped, her baby daughter and other family members killed, a court here handed down life sentences to all but one of the 12 persons convicted in the case relating to one of the most gruesome manifestations of post-Godhra riots in Gujarat in 2002.