A delegation of the Puducherry Freedom Fighters Welfare Movement will call on UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at New Delhi soon seeking her intervention for sanction of pension to genuine freedom-fighters.

After keeping the media on its toes for around two months, Sanjay Dutt finally left his Bandra residence to surrender to the TADA court and commence his three and a half year jail term.There was a frenzy that ensued as everyone -- media persons and common man alike -- gathered wanted to catch a last glimpse of the actor being driven away to the court.Dutt left his Pali Hill house around 1.30 pm and reached the court in the presence of the waiting media. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, his sister Priya Dutt and his wife Maanayata accompanied the 53-year-old actor.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday announced an increase in the monthly pension of freedom fighters and their widows from Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000.

Looking forward to his upcoming film 'Freedom', director Vivek Agnihotri says the movie is like 'Dil Chahta Hai' meeting 'Deewar'.

In what could be described as a sheer case of callousness, freedom fighters generally are running  from pillar to post in order to receive their pension. The case of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s security guard Pyara Singh (92) is not anyway different, who is fighting red-tapism and an insensitive system, sending several petitions to both the Central and Punjab government but in vain.

Tightening its norms for the private sector New Pension System (NPS), the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has disallowed fresh investments in equity mutual funds and ETFs from the corpus.

The military-ruled Myanmar allowing privately-owned dailies to publish for the first time in decades has put China in a piquant spot as its vocal netizens asked when will the communist nation follow suit.

Bangladesh should immediately drop charges against and release four bloggers and a newspaper editor arrested this month, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Civil society activists have filed two applications in a Pakistani court asking it to make them parties to a case challenging the renaming of a traffic roundabout in Lahore after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

Two days before the Supreme Court gave its verdict on Sanjay Dutt’s long-pending case on illegal possession of arms, the actor was in an unusually jocular mood. It was to be one of the last interviews given by the star before yesterday’s verdict found him guilty. The actor had been shooting at a stable in Goregaon and chatted quite freely, even revealing why people think he is not media-friendly.