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The govt on Friday included death sentence as a punishment in the anti-hijacking law. The policy also allows shooting down of a "hostile plane if there is conclusive evidence that it is likely to be used as a missile to blow up strategic establishments".

Nuclear weapons are "weapons of peace" which act as a deterrent, says the former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, Anil Kakodkar.

Over 35,000 troops have been reduced in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 15 months, chief minister Omar Abdullah told the state legislative assembly.

"Headley's confession and his admission to all the 12 charges against him has substantiated our claim that the Lashkar was directly behind the terror attacks," special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.

India has strongly taken up the difficulties faced by its companies and American MNCs in getting a US visa for Indian professionals with the Obama administration.

Former Tollywood actor Vijayashanti now a TRS Lok Sabha MP on Thursday asked Chiranjeevi, opposite whom she has acted in many hit films, to buzz off from Hyderabad and shift to the Andhra region.

More than two years after Gurrinderjit Singh was abandoned in a London suburb by his parents, believed to be illegal immigrants to Britain, life luckily has come a full circle for the chubby-cheeked 11-year-old.

The government is set to make another stab at reducing its bloated subsidy bill by raising prices of foodgrain for the above poverty line category.

Facing the heat of Operation Green Hunt along the Bengal-Jharkhand border and interior parts of Jharkhand, Maoist politburo member Kishanji on Thursday threatened a counter attack in a bid to checkmate the state offensive.

The Centre plans to create a national population register to document photos and biometric information of all "usual residents" above the age of 15.

UP CM Mayawati packed off her principal secretary Vijay Shankar Pandey, accusing him of inability to fend off adverse publicity and appointed DIG Rajiv Krishna to probe the bee attack on Monday's rally.

Swami Nithyananda of Dhyanapeetam Ashram near Bidadi is now under the Karnataka police scanner.

President Pratibha Patil on Thursday presented the prestigious Moortidevi Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust to law minister M Veerappa Moily for his "outstanding work" Shri Ramayana Mahanveshanam.

A childless couple has been arrested for poisoning five children to death in the last four months in Maharashtra's Hingoli district. Police suspect it to be a case of "child sacrifice"

The Maharashtra home department has decided not to initiate any action against K P Raghuvanshi, chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

Law enforcement sources rubbished allegations that Headley was a double agent for US intelligence and that this was why he was not being made available for interrogation by Indian intelligence.

Official access for Indian investigators probing the Mumbai terror attack to Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley will help prove to the world Pakistan's involvement in the 26/11 strikes, the Bharatiya Janata Party has stated."It (consequences of his pleading guilty before a United States court) is a mixed bag. As we cannot get extradition, it is a loss. But, at the same time, we can get official access," BJP said.

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Car recalls have now become the flavour of the season, a byproduct of the booming auto business.