
In a relief to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, a special bench of the Karnataka High Court on Monday acquitted her in the Rs.66.65-crore disproportionate assets' case. She was convicted and sentenced to four years' imprisonment by a lower court earlier....
The government on Monday introduced the controversial land acquisition bill in the Lok Sabha amid a huge uproar by the opposition. ...
More than 400 people have sustained spinal cord injures in Nepal's deadly earthquake. ...
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian on Monday expressed his opposition to the proposed India-Pakistan cricket series in December. ...
At least six people, including a tribal leader, were killed in a bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region on Monday, a media report said. ...
"Justice has won," AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa said on Monday after the Karnataka High Court acquitted her of all charges in the disproportionate assets case....

Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday denied any wrongdoings by the Purti Group or by him in financial dealings. ...
Sweden's Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to overturn the arrest warrant against him for allegations of sexual assault in the country....
Banker K.V. Kamath was on Monday appointed head of the BRICS New Development Bank being set up by the group of emerging economies formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. ...
Prior to an important Afghanistan visit, Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting here on Monday to discuss the dimensions related to Pakistan-Afghanistan relations. ...