The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned a former CWG Organising Committee high official for six hours even as the Lok Sabha saw the Opposition demanding a joint parliamentary committee to probe the allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games. The government said the irregularities would be inquired into “exhaustively” and the corrupt pursued till the “ends of the earth”.

The Privileges Committee of Rajya Sabha on Monday said an article written by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on north Indians has brought down the image of parliamentarians in the public eye. However, with Mr Raut expressing regret both orally and in writing, the committee recommended no action against the Shiv Sena leader, who is also the executive editor of Sena mouthpiece Saamna.

A 44-year-old man was arrested after he was found to be in possession of a country-made revolver while trying to enter the Metro station at Tilak Nagar in west Delhi on Sunday night.

At a time when the chief minister Rosaiah is besieged on many fronts namely the rebellion of Jaganmohan Reddy, taunts by detractors from within the party and allegations of being ineffective, he has found support from an unexpected quarter-the governor of the Andhra Pradesh state E.S.L. Narasimhan.

Dismissing the plea of Salman, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist allegedly being involved in the Delhi serial blasts in 2008, additional sessions judge (ASJ) of the Tis Hazari district court Santosh Snehi Mann said the accused was not a juvenile and thereby his appeal was not maintainable.

Responding to Ram Jethmalani’s query that India was listed fifth amongst the poisonous gas emitting nations in the world, Union minister of environment Jairam Ramesh admitted that the National Ambient Air Quality Standards had been notified in respect to twelve pollutants. These included gases like sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and ammonia .

An eatery owner was shot dead and two other persons sustained gunshot injuries when unidentified persons opened indiscriminate fire at an eatery in Adarsh Nagar area of northwest Delhi around Sunday midnight. The police suspect that the incident was a result of rivalry between the members of two gangs.

The Parliament on Monday passed the Securities and Insurance Laws (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2010 that provides for a mechanism to resolve the regulators’ disputed over jurisdiction of popular Ulip financial products.

The daughter-in-law of a 62-year-old woman, who was found dead in her house at Hauz Khas in south Delhi on August 7, has been arrested by the police in this connection. The 28-year-old accused had allegedly bludgeoned the victim to death with an iron musli, used for crushing spices in homes. She was apparently angry at

Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha members on Monday expressed dismay over reported fare hike by private airlines to ferry people from tragedy struck Leh. Asking the government to immediately intervene in the matter, Rajya Sabha members also sought relaxation of MPLAD rules so that members could donate from MPLAD to those effected in Leh due to flash floods.