-AP   A UN climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and far-reaching programme meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades. The 194-party conference agreed to start negotiations on a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime enforcing commitments to control greenhouse gases. It would take effect by 2020 at the latest. The deal also set...

Here's the wonderful thing about the FDI-in-retail debate: never have struggling Indian farmers found so many champions. They've been crawling out of the woodwork. Foreign direct investment in retail may be on hold, but Hillary Clinton can stop worrying about Anand Sharma and Pranab Mukherjee. “How does (Commerce Minister) Sharma view India's current Foreign Direct Investment guidelines? Which sectors does he plan to open further? Why is he reluctant to open multi-brand...

A major sticking point between the Centre and All India Muslim Personal Law Board seemed set for a resolution with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi leaning towards keeping madrassas out of the Right to Education following a meeting with the board president,Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi, here on Sunday. Maulana Nadvi is also the rector of Nadwatul Ulema, a leading Islamic seminary. This is Congress's second major outreach to Muslims in recent...

—PTI For the first time in the two-decade long Turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, a Valley-based human rights group has admitted that militants were responsible for more enforced disappearances than security forces. Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), an organisation seeking the whereabouts of missing persons in the State, said of the 132 cases it has documented, militant groups were responsible for 24 cases of enforced disappearances compared to 22 by...

-The Times of India   It was high drama at Ahmedabad airport as rickshaw drivers stopped the shooting of Hollywood film 'American Gandhi' outside the domestic arrival terminal. Eyewitnesses at the airport said that if the film crew at Ahmedabad airport had not left the campus then the gathered crowd would have in all possibility damaged their expensive equipment. "At around 12.15 pm, the crew members started setting up their equipment outside the...