Jammu and Kashmir should be compensated for the losses it has suffered due to the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, a  parliamentarian from the state demanded Friday.

Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Friday approached the Supreme Court to retain the train engine as its poll symbol for the forthcoming municipal polls in the state.

The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos, which was stolen from his grave three months back, has been finally laid to rest in the capital Nicosia, local TV said Friday.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik traded charges Friday as the minister accused Islamabad of backing all militant outfits and the envoy denied the charge.

Twenty-nine legislators, including 28 of the Congress, were suspended from the Chhattisgarh assembly Friday for trooping  towards the speaker.

Left and Samajwadi Party (SP) MPs Friday walked out of the Lok Sabha in protest against rising food prices and demanded a White Paper on inflation.

The Congress said Friday it was keen to get the women's reservation bill passed in the Lok Sabha but said it will be brought to the lower house only after consultation with political parties.

Kabir Suman, the Trinamool Congress MP who is not always known to toe the party line and a hugely popular poet-singer in West Bengal, says he is willing to mediate between the central government and Maoists.

Orissa is planning to form a separate ministry that would exclusively focus on the problems of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and work for their growth, the state's top official said Thursday.

Faced with dissidence over the women's bill, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said it will issue a whip to its MPs to support the proposed legislation in the Lok Sabha.