Information pertaining to appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Delhi high court has said.
The court dismissed the RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal’s plea seeking disclosure of information on the ground that people had the right to know as to what was the grade assigned to an officer who was empanelled.

The decomposing bodies of an elderly couple lay in their home for five days and were only discovered after a foul stench began emanating from their Jawahar Nagar, Goregaon (west) apartment.

A day after reports of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) alleging poor quality and deviation from norms in various Games-related projects, the civic agencies sought to downplay the entire issue saying it was part of routine exercise between the commission and them. The CVC too put out a clarification on its website saying the reports regarding various CWG projects were initial findings and should not be construed as final report.

The Army has ordered a Court of Inquiry that will probe the alleged breach of cyber communication norms (for armed forces personnel) by a Major posted in the Andamans, who was being probed earlier for alleged transfer of information from his computer to a computer in Pakistan. Army sources, however, said on Friday that the

There will be no bulletproof buses to ferry athletes and delegates, travelling to and from the Commonwealth Games venues and the Games Village or other accommodations, the Delhi police has said. However, adequate security arrangements would be put in place to ensure top class security. The bulletproof security was demanded by Pakistani security delegation in the wake of the Lahore bus attack in March 2009.

The Bofors 155 mm artillery towed gun has lost out yet again in India. In a setback to the Army’s modernisation programme, the ministry of defence (MoD) has cancelled the entire “request for proposal” (RFP) process for acquisition of 155 mm towed artillery guns and has initiated a fresh “request for information” (RFI), defence sources have said.

Amid pressure from various quarters on the Commonwealth Games projects, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said that these will the best ever Games. She, however, denied any knowledge of the CVC report, which has indicted various agencies for compromising on quality and not following the norms while completing the projects. But Ms Dikshit added that action would be taken against errant officials when the report would be formally submitted.

In a significant development and for the first time, the authorities in Assam have taken strong action against the students’ organisations indulging in extortion and blackmailing the businessmen and business-establishments of the state.

A day after he told Parliamentarians that the Naxal problem can be overcome within three years, home minister P. Chidambaram said that the timeline of three years was meant to “dispel the notion that it is a matter of weeks or months”.

Ace shuttler and world number two Saina Nehwal was on Friday selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country’s highest sporting honour, putting the icing on the cake to her sensational 2010.