The four worst Naxal-affected states —Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal — will set up Unified Command structures headed by the chief secretaries of each state for better coordination among police, paramilitary and intelligence agencies. The state governments will appoint a retired major-general of the Army as a member of the Unified Command to advise the state administration on anti-Naxal operations.

Around 400 police personnel from the neighbouring states might be deployed with the Delhi police for the Commonwealth Games security. The order will be issued if the next Cabinet meeting of the Delhi government approves the police personnel deputation in the city.

Mr Yogendra Sagar, BSP MLA from Bilsi in Badaun district has been declared an “absconder” in the Jyoti Sharma rape case by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM).

Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that he was “anxiously waiting” for Prime Minister Manmohan Sin-gh’s response to his request to reduce his burden of ministerial responsibilities.

Alleging that the Congress was “shedding crocodile tears” over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s conviction, the main Opposition BJP on Tuesday said Congress was also disrespecting the patriotism of Indian Muslims by raising Hindu-Muslim terror issue. A recent remark by BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on this issue, where he had

In the wake of reports stating that certain senior RSS functionaries are under the CBI’s scanner for allegedly shielding a prime suspect in Ajmer terror blast case, the RSS on Tuesday said its functionaries will “cooperate” with agencies probing alleged links of right wing groups in certain bomb blast cases. But the Sangh vehemently denied that its members were involved in any terror attack, terming as “baseless” suggestions that some of its members were involved in the crimes.

The recent crisis rocking the Karnataka Assembly for the past few days has now acquired national focus, with governor Hans Raj Bhardwaj briefing President Pratibha Patil on these developments here Tuesday. The governor, who met the President over breakfast Tuesday morning, told reporters later that “no one had the licence to indulge in corruption” and that he would not “shirk his responsibilities”.

More than 24 hours after the attack on Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Nandi in Allahabad, the UP police have failed to make any breakthrough in the case.
[The UP police on Tuesday admitted that one person was killed in the bomb attack on state minister Nand Gopal Gupta while forensic experts scoured the site for evidence to help investigators crack the case, PTI reports.]

Nearly 16 lakh students of Maharashtra seeking admission in Class 11 got major relief from the Supreme Court with it allowing the state to continue with the “best-of-five” marking scheme in Class 10 as an interim measure.

A day after heavy rain blew away the claims of the civic agencies about preparing the city for the Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday asked the agencies to ensure that waterlogging did not recur. There were also reports that she pulled up the civic agency officials in the morning for the chaos