The body of former Union minister Digvijay Singh, who died two days ago at a hospital in London, was on Saturday taken to his hometown in Bihar for cremation.
Singh, the sitting Lok Sabha member, breathed his last at St Thomas Hospital where he was being treated for heart ailment on June 24. He suffered a brain haemorrhage while in the hospital. The body was taken to Gidhaur on the Poorva Express. The cremation will be held on Monday in Gidhaur.

Yuvraj Singh was recalled to the team that will tour Sri Lanka for three Test matches from the middle of July after he sat out the South Africa series with a ligament injury and the just-concluded Asia Cup campaign in Dambulla. Suresh Raina makes the grade as a member of the 16 for the first time, having earlier come to cover for injured colleagues.

A joint meeting of Punjab’s top political leaders, on Saturday, decided to seek Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to help resolve a fresh row with neighbouring Haryana over the apportioning of water resources.

After announcing the price hike on fuel prices, the government on Friday was at the receiving end from the Opposition. Demanding a roll back of the price hike, the main Opposition party, the BJP, lambasted the government for further burdening the aam aadmi. It charged the Centre of pursuing an “unjustified fuel price hike”. Prakash

In yet another attempt to control high food inflation, hovering at 16.9 per cent, the empowered group of ministers (EGOM) on food on Friday decided to release 5 million tonnes of wheat over the next 10 months under the open market sale scheme.

Asking people not to lose heart at the onset of a weak monsoon, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the country may receive excess rainfall this year and September could be the wettest month of the season.

Former Union minister and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh, who was reinducted in the BJP on Thursday, might be offered a post in party chief Nitin Gadkari’s team. Mr Singh, who was a member of the party’s highest body, the parliamentary board, before he was expelled from the party last year in August, is likely to be appointed as the vice-president. He was expelled for praising Pakistan founder M.A. Jinnah in his book.

In yet another attempt to control high food inflation, hovering at 16.9 per cent, the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food on Friday decided to release 5 million tonnes of wheat over the next 10 months under the open market sale scheme. However, the draft Food Security Bill, which aims to provide a fixed quantity of food grain at

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Anil’s Reliance Natural Resources Limited took yet another conciliatory step by signing the revised Gas Supply Master Agreement. This followed the direction of the Supreme Court on May 7, 2010.

The government decided to decontrol petrol prices from Friday midnight and simultaneously raised the prices of key auto and cooking fuels — petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene. The prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene have been raised by Rs 3.5 per litre, Rs 2 per litre and Rs 3 per litre respectively. An LPG cylinder will now cost an