If you use a mobile or iPad while driving, beware. You will have to cough up Rs.500 as penalty. And if the offence is repeated, the fine may zoom to anything between Rs.2,000 and Rs.5,000.In a desperate bid to arrest the mounting road accidents across the country, the cabinet on Thursday approved the Motor Vehicle Amendment Bill of 2007 to increase penalties manifold.

Taking the probe into activities of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) a step ahead, the CBI on Sunday arrested V D Rajagopal, the former vice-chairman and managing director (incharge) of Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation.

The fate of High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) for motor vehicles seems to hang in balance. Going by the Supreme Court’s order, to authorise a single agency with the responsibility of manufacturing special number plates that cannot be counterfeited and duplicated, has created road blocks for the Ministry of Road Transport and National Highway.

Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair on Wednesday described as "improper" the move to blacklist four scientists, including him, from a government job and said the space agency had "gone to the dogs".

Toughening stand over dilly-dallying of the state governments in introducing High Security Number Plate (HSNP) in the motor vehicles as a measure to check theft, the Supreme Court on Thursday set four- week deadline for the states to implement the scheme.

In a bid to provide more security to the tourists visiting the national capital, the Delhi government has issued a circular under which registration of tourist agents, tour operators and tourist transport operator has been made mandatory.

A foreign NGO on Monday claimed that more than 300 financial institutions, including some Indian firms, have exposure to 20 major nuclear weapons companies across the world and urged them to stop these investments.