"It was a very, very fruitful meeting. I will report to the Congress president whatever he said", he told reporters, refusing to disclose details about his discussion.

India's first woman president will be completing 50 years in public life this year and is contemplating to tell her story in a book, Rashtrapati Bhawan sources said.

The mediators said they did not meet Menon, who was abducted on April 21 from Majhipara village, but they were told by Naxals that he was in "good health".

In an incident which appears be a perfect plot for any reality-based fiction work, an American college dropout after being brutally attacked by a group of street robbers has turned a mathematics genius.

India's civil aviation history would have taken a different trajectory had the Tata group and Singapore Airlines been allowed to float a private airline 15 years ago, says former bureaucrat M K Kaw in his tell-all book.

Focal point of terrorism has shifted now from Afghanistan to North West Frontier Province and Punjab. And it is a major worry for India, said IAF chief NAK Browne.

The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of American unity by president Barack Obama, has become something else: a political weapon.

Research by the School of Life Sciences in JNU has revealed that sleep plays a significant role in encoding information and retaining what is learned through the day.

Former BJP chief Bangaru Laxman was on Saturday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for having accepted Rs 1 lakh as bribe from a fake arms dealer who sought his help to bag an order from the defence ministry.

If monthly consumption spending is taken as the benchmark of what one needs to survive, the poverty line would be Rs 66.10 for urban & Rs 35.10 for rural areas.

The views of the Supreme Court on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy’s petition in connection with the 2Gspectrum allocation scam set the precedent for the special CBI court in deciding the punishment for former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the 11-year-old corruption case.

Rejecting former BJP chief Bangaru Laxman’s argument that West End International was a fictitious firm and that he could not have extended any help for getting a supply order from the ministry of defence in 2001, the CBI judge said while the firm, its product and the deal was fake, the intentions of Laxman, who took the bribe for recommending the device to the ministry, were real.

The police found the body of a woman that had been dumped in Sonia Vihar in northeast Delhi, sparking speculation that a serial killer may be at play.

Delhi University's undergraduate courses may undergo a sea change from 2013. Another year will be added to the existing three-year undergraduate courses - BA, BCom and BSc - and the courses will be restructured to offer an exit option midway.

Most desi tourists travelling within India spend around Rs 4,226 per night on a room, around Rs 2,500 less than what Indians spend when travelling abroad.

Mumbai, which created the ‘supari’ killing, is no stranger to a rate card for crime. But now the prerogative of underworld dons has been seized by brand-loving, high-living people whose ultimate aspiration is to glide into Page 3.

Yellow metal is now staring at the Rs 30,000 per 10 gram mark for the first time after equalling the previous record of Rs 29,540 on Saturday.

In an exclusive interview to TOI, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon offered a tour de horizon of top of mind issues in the international community.

CBI sources said General VK Singh has assured them that he would soon provide more material about the alleged bribe offer in the Tatra case.

Chartered surveyor Harnish Patel was fired at by gunmen while dining at Leopold Cafê on that horrific night of 2008 when Pakistani terrorists besieged Mumbai.