Throwing the ball in BJP’s court over the controversy surrounding the appointment of P.J. Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), senior government officials on Tuesday said that the NDA government itself did nothing when it was in power on sanctioning prosecution against Mr Thomas as they could find nothing against him.

The BJP on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for defending “tainted” Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) P.J. Thomas, so “aggressively”. The government, through an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Monday, had defended Mr Thomas calling him a person of impeccable integrity.

The income-tax department on Tuesday submitted a 7,000-page report to the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta which indicts suspended IAS couple Arvind Joshi and Tinoo Joshi and points out that they had amassed huge unaccounted wealth to the tune of over `350 crores.

Senior Congress MLA Govind Singh alleged here on Tuesday that there is a `100-crore scam in the allotment of land in Gwalior by the Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sahkari Awas Sangh (State Cooperative Housing Federation).

Beleaguered Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Tuesday met senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley in the wake of governor H.R. Bhardwaj considering a request by a lawyers forum seeking permission to prosecute him in alleged land scams.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asked party leaders to shift the blame for price rise on the state government and approach the voters with fresh enthusiasm.
“The Centre is certainly not responsible for the increase in prices of vegetables and fruits. It is for the state government to check hoarding and black-marketing,” he said at the concluding session of the two-day meeting of the UP Congress coordination committee here.

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In an unusual judgment, the Delhi high court on Tuesday allowed the plea of a married man, father of two daughters, to live with a woman other than his wife.
The court passed the order after going through a petition filed by North Delhi residents — Arvind Yadav and Renu Sharma — seeking their protection after recording the woman’s statement expressing her desire to live with the married man.

A reader recently wrote in to the advice section of a popular men’s magazine asking how he should stop his wife from sporting the bald look she wanted to try out. Radical? Yes.

Metro chief E. Sreedharan wants to quit by 2011-end and does not seek another extension. He wants to train his successor for the job before leaving.
After making the Delhi Metro an icon in India and abroad, and setting an example of integrity and persistence, Mr Sreedharan wants to retire even when the government