As Told To Janaki Fernandes

• No clean chit yet for Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in 2006 Malegaon blasts case

  National Investigation Agency or NIA is likely to file a supplementary chargesheet in 2006 Malegaon blasts naming Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. The chargesheet filed yesterday in a Mumbai court did not name the two. NIA sources told NDTV that although the two right wing leaders do not figure in the first chargesheet "it should not be r...

• ''It's been 24 days since my daughter was raped in school"

  His seven-year-old daughter was raped in a toilet in her school in Goa on January 14. Three weeks later, her father says he will go on a hunger strike because the man who entered the school and assaulted his daughter has yet to be traced. The headmistress of the school was arrested for negligence but released on bail. The police has accused two ot...

• Blog: When Modi asked if he could extend his speech, we said 'Yes!'

  Radhika Gulati (19), is a second-year Commerce student at SRCC college. She was among the 1,800 students who were addressed today by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Here, she shares her experience:

• "Because of Headley, my daughter died screaming"

  On November 26, 2008 Kia Scherr's husband, Alan Scherr and her 13-year-old daughter Naomi were dining at the Oberoi Trident Hotel when terrorists stormed in. David Coleman Headley, a dual citizen of America and Pakistan helped plan those attacks in which 166 people were killed, and was sentenced on Thursday by a judge in America to 35 years in pri...

• Family isn't immunity from graft charges: Arun Jaitley's repartee to Digvijaya Singh

  A day after Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh told NDTV that his party stuck to the ethics of not targetting family members of opposition leaders, the BJP's Arun Jaitley has dismissed this as an attempt to deflect attention from corruption charges against the government and the Congress.

• Another minor girl raped in Haryana, 15th case in a month

  Horror for women continues in the state of Haryana. The Yamuna Nagar police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly raping a minor girl. The accused, identified as Gurnam Singh who was known to the victim allegedly offered the girl a lift in his car when she was on her way to visit her sister on Tuesday. "He told me he would drop me, but the...

• Cauvery water dispute: Karnataka agrees to temporarily release more water to Tamil Nadu

  In a good will gesture, Karnataka has agreed to release 10,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu starting 12 September. Karnataka told the Supreme Court today that it will release the water as temporary arrangement from 12 Sept to 20 September.

• Baba Ramdev threatens government, says will be first to go to jail if required

  Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is on a fast at Delhi's Ramlila Ground demanding immediate steps to bring back black money, has warned the government that he is ready to be the first one to be arrested if required, and will go to jail if needed. He told his supporters that he would announce the next agenda for his movement tomorrow. "There will be a re...

• Who is Pranab Mukherjee?

  Pranab Mukherjee is President-elect. On Wednesday, he will take oath as the 13th President of India. Many years ago, at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan, he told his sister Annapurna Banerjee wistfully that in his next life he would like to live there. "Why not now?" asked his elder sister. Mr Mukherjee will now live in the world's biggest preside...

• Rahul alone will decide on larger role, says Sonia Gandhi to NDTV

  Congress President Sonia Gandhi has told NDTV that Rahul Gandhi alone will decide on whether he will play a larger role in the party. When asked if there's a possibility of him serving as working president or vice-president before the 2014 polls, she said, "It is for Rahul to decide, he alone can take a decision on this."

• Sadananda Gowda resigns as Karnataka Chief Minister, Jagadish Shettar to take over

  Jagadish Shettar is going to be Karanataka's third BJP Chief Minister in four years. Sadananda Gowda, the man who precedes him, met BJP president Nitin Gadkari in Delhi this morning and submitted his resignation to him. Rural Development Minister Jagadish Shettar will replace him, Mr Gadkari announced soon after. "I am an obedient soldier of the p...