Edited By Jatin Gandhi With Inputs From Pti

A father of two, an employee with an IT firm, was tied to an electric pole and badly thrashed by a group of people for allegedly stalking a 25-yr-old woman.

The Sahitya Akademi today claimed some of the writers, including Nayantara Sahgal, have agreed to take back the awards they had returned citing 'growing intolerance' in the country. Ms Sahgal, however, issued a separate statement strongly denying the academy's claim.

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has put the humble samosa on a list of 'luxury items' that will now attract 13.5 per cent tax to fund development work.

BJP's partner in the Maharashtra government, the Shiv Sena, has lashed out at its ally for putting up a poor show in the local bodies elections in which the Congress won the highest number of seats, followed by the NCP.

A senior RJD leader has blamed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for rising incidents of crime in the state. Party vice president Raghubansh Prasad Singh today said it is for Mr Kumar to check the slide.

A few hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced "The good news is Parliament is running," at the Hindustan Times Leadership summit on Friday morning, both Houses struggled to complete the quorum to carry out legislative business.

A court in Delhi directed the CBI to investigate the charges against former union minister and Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 riots case. The court told the agency it would be monitor the investigations regularly and rejected the closure report filed by agency that had cleared Mr Tytler.

The current air pollution levels in the national capital have reached "alarming" proportions and living here is like "living in a gas chamber", the Delhi High Court said today. The court directed the Centre and the Delhi government to submit time bound action plans on tackling pollution by the next hearing on December 21.

A father of two, an employee with an IT firm, was tied to an electric pole and badly thrashed by a group of people for allegedly stalking a 25-yr-old woman.

The Sahitya Akademi today claimed some of the writers, including Nayantara Sahgal, have agreed to take back the awards they had returned citing 'growing intolerance' in the country. Ms Sahgal, however, issued a separate statement strongly denying the academy's claim.

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has put the humble samosa on a list of 'luxury items' that will now attract 13.5 per cent tax to fund development work.

BJP's partner in the Maharashtra government, the Shiv Sena, has lashed out at its ally for putting up a poor show in the local bodies elections in which the Congress won the highest number of seats, followed by the NCP.

A senior RJD leader has blamed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for rising incidents of crime in the state. Party vice president Raghubansh Prasad Singh today said it is for Mr Kumar to check the slide.

A few hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced "The good news is Parliament is running," at the Hindustan Times Leadership summit on Friday morning, both Houses struggled to complete the quorum to carry out legislative business.

A court in Delhi directed the CBI to investigate the charges against former union minister and Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 riots case. The court told the agency it would be monitor the investigations regularly and rejected the closure report filed by agency that had cleared Mr Tytler.

The current air pollution levels in the national capital have reached "alarming" proportions and living here is like "living in a gas chamber", the Delhi High Court said today. The court directed the Centre and the Delhi government to submit time bound action plans on tackling pollution by the next hearing on December 21.