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 |  | Concern over repeated disruptions that have raised questions over the efficacy of Parliament's functioning marked the 60th anniversary of its first sitting in free India with leaders pressing for sincere introspection to restore the dignity of the institution. |
 | | President Pratibha Patil has said Indian democracy cannot be allowed to falter at a time when democracies of the world are operating in the complex situations including fractured mandates and explosion of the media. |
 | | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been named No 1 in the World's 20 Most Powerful Moms list which also ranked India-born Indra Nooyi at the 3rd spot and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at No 6. |
 | | A record number of Indian Americans -- at least 12 -- are in the fray for the November 2012 polls vying for a place in the House of Representative, reflecting the serious effort of this fastest growing ethnic community in the US to politically empower itself. |
 | | Two top slots in the Union Public Service Commission Civil Services Examinations 2011 have been achieved by women candidates. |
 | | Deeply concerned over incentive- based population policies framed by some state governments, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is mulling to frame guidelines and has sought details from states. |
 | | Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and his family retained their top spot as Britain's richest for the seventh year in succession while the combined worth of the country's 1000 wealthiest individuals defied double-dip recession to reach record levels during the last year. |
 | | The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed two key bills to enable students of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research get their degrees and give 8 new IITs their status through an Act of Parliament. |
 | | After a gap of more than two decades, India's nominee Justice Dalveer Bhandari was on Friday overwhelmingly elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice. |
 | | The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill that proposes to do away with the age of consent and deem any sexual relations with a person aged below 18 years as rape regardless of whether it is consensual sex or not. |
 | | Justice Ranjan Gogoi was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on Monday, raising the strength of the apex court to 27 against the approved strength of 31. |
 | | A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 was sold on Tuesday for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London. |
 | | A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the 1912 launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner, plus items recovered from the wreckage miles underwater. |
 | | To check the mushrooming growth of unregulated media institutes which charge exorbitant fees but provide sub standard education, the HRD ministry has formed an inter-ministerial task force. |
 | | There has been a rise of 242 one-horned rhinos inside Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in upper Assam pushing their number to 2290. |
 | | Late cartoonist Mario Miranda, actors Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi, top mathematician M S Raghunathan, former Chief Vigilance Commissioner N Vittal and industry leader B Muthuraman were among those conferred the Padma awards by President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi on Wednesday. |
 | | Govind Narain, one of the last surviving ICS officers and who was the Home Secretary during Bangladesh war, passed away in the capital, his family said on Wednesday. |
 | | Three-time Olympian and former captain of the Indian hockey team Ajit Pal Singh was named as India's Chef-de-Mission for the London Olympic Games, bringing and end to the wranglings for the post within the IOA. |
 | | Asia's largest tulip garden on the banks of Dal Lake in Kashmir was thrown open to visitors on Thursday by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. |
 | | Assam's traditional theatre, 'Ankiya Bhaona' with its roots embedded deep in the Vaishnav monasteries or 'Satras', is set to get a new lease of life with an initiative by a state apex body to popularise it among diverse communities. |
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 Cannes film festival curtain up with comedy, chaosComedy will dominate the opening of the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, with Wes Anderson's child fantasy "Moonrise Kingdom" in a tussle with Sacha Baron Cohen's anarchic alter ego General Aladeen for the attention of the world's media. |
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