Senior BJP leaders, including its parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her counterpart in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and senior leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday met finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. Sources said BJP leaders met Mr Mukherjee to discuss the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, 2010.

Absolving the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of having played any role in former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson’s quiet exit from India, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and sitting Rajya Sabha MP Arjun Singh on Wednesday put the ball in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s court.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram has said that charges against the absconding former head of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) Warren Anderson were not diluted and even lauded the CBI for being steadfast in its endeavour to seek his extradition. He also said that the curative petition in the case is almost ready to be filed.

Enumeration of castes in the ongoing Census process may now become a reality as the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the issue, headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, has given its assent.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram lashed out at the BJP in the alleged Sohrabuddin fake encounter case stating that the decision to transfer the probe from the Gujarat CID to the CBI was taken by the Supreme Court.

In an unusual judgement, the Delhi high court on Wednesday, in a specific case, said that the marriage between two minors is “valid” and it can be annulled only on the plea by one of the partners. After hearing a petition filed by 18-year-old minor boy (according to Hindu Marriage Act), Jitendra Kumar Sharma, who tied knot with a 16-year-

The arrest of the People’s Democratic Party leader, Mr Abdul Nasser Madani, in connection with the Bengaluru serial blasts is likely to be delayed further because of the two-day visit of the President, Ms Pratibha Patil, to Kerala from Thursday.

The Delhi government has specified the court of additional sessions judge as children’s court for dispensing justice to the child victims of various offences and bringing to book the violators of child rights. The moves comes five years after the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005, was passed and required the state to specify a particular court that would be treated as children court.

The CBI is unlikely to submit any further status report in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case immediately as the apex court is set to take up the contentious matter on Thursday.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit went around town along with the entire entourage of her officers on Wednesday to inspect the progress in connection with the Commonwealth Games-2010. The Delhi government has, meanwhile, come up with a new deadline for stopping of road cutting — August 20.