Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said that the challenge before the government is to draw the maximum possible benefit from Arunachal Prad-esh, which has a hydel capacity of over 15,000 megawatts, so that “both the people of Arunachal Pradesh and people of India also benefit’’. Mr Ramesh said that Arunachal Pradesh has over 15,000 megawatts of hydel capacity.

Top leaders in the Congress were aware of the contents of Mr Arjun Singh’s speech on the Bhopal gas disaster much before he spoke on it in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. This was because he sent a written text of his speech well in advance to the concerned in the government and thus sought their approval.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Thursday after the Yadav troika prote-sted against a group of minister’s decision to include caste in the Census 2011 at the biometric data stage.

Former Indian Police Service officer Amod Kanth is in trouble as a Delhi court on Thursday rejected the closure report of the CBI, which had given him a clean chit in the Uphaar inferno case after not

The government on Thursday announced that it had been working on a comprehensive draft document to holistically revisit the entire gamut of CrPC and Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Giving an ultimatum to BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and telecom operators, the Centre on Thursday set August 31 as the deadline for them to allow security agencies lawful interception of two crucial services — BlackBerry Enterprise Services and BlackBerry Messenger Services, failing which the popular services will be shut down in India.

Government on Thursday informed Parliament that it has no records of calls made by home ministry “official or officials” to the then chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh for securing release of former Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson in 1984 and on the “safe passage” assurance reportedly given to him.

The Indian Air Force has received permission from the government to fire back at Naxalites in self-defence in case IAF helicopters are attacked, top defence sources confirmed Thursday. However, stringent conditionalities have been attached to the permission given, to prevent any collateral damage.

The Kerala high court order setting aside the election of Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh was stayed by the Supreme Court on Thursday while admitting his appeal against the HC verdict.

The Union health ministry has strongly refuted the conclusions of an article in scientific journal Lancet saying that India is possibly the source of a “superbug”, a bacteria that is resistant to strongest of the antibiotics. It also objected to the naming of the drug resistant bug as New Delhi metallo-b lactamase (NDM-1).