Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor of India's second-largest information technology services provider Infosys Technologies, has asserted that he has set up the Catamaran Venture Fund to occupy himself once he retires from Infosys in 2011.

MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories, the joint venture to develop affordable vaccines for low-income countries, will take off by next year.

In the last 10 years, India's net addition to its forest cover has broadly been 0.3 million hectares per year and the country's total forest and tree cover is 78.37 million hectares which is 23.84 per cent of geographical area.

Defence Minister A K Antony said that that issue of incursions was taken up with Chinese authorities through established mechanisms such as Hot-lines, border meetings and normal diplomatic channels to maintain peace.

Eminent nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar, who played a crucial role in the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, stepped down as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) on Monday.

Swinging into action, government on Monday sought a report from the Convener of Common Admission Test (CAT) Satish Deodhar on the ongoing disruption of the computer-based entrance test for admission into IIMs.

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda was on Monday arrested by the state Vigilance Commission, nearly two months after a case was registered against him in a multi-crore hawala scam.

The special 26/11 trial court on Monday terminated Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab's lawyer Abbas Kazmi, observing that he was "not co-operating with it in the interest of justice."

SC passed the direction on an application moved by Ishrat's mother, complaining that High Court should not take up any matter relating to the issue as the matter is pending in the apex court.

Employees present in the operating area of Kaiga N-plant after preliminary findings revealed 'internal sabotage' for the radioactive contamination of drinking water.