It was in September 2009 that Union law minister M. Veerappa Moily had asked the Law Commission of India to draft new legislation to prevent man-made tragedies such as the Bhopal gas disaster.

As many as 25 major chemical accidents have taken place in India in a span of five years between 2002-06.

India is likely to ask Pakistan to disclose the whereabouts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and alleged mastermind of the 26/11 terror attack Hafiz Muhammad Saeed at the time when convicted Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab along with nine other terrorists set sail from Karachi on a boat to unleash terror in Mumbai. The issue is expected to

The Central paramilitary forces are hard-pressed and any further deployment of the CPMFs for the ongoing anti-Naxal operations can happen once the force personnel undergoing training for counter-insurgency duties complete their training. The present strength of the CPMFs does not allow pressing of additional manpower in the Naxal hotbeds, government sources said.

The weekend CPI(M) politburo meeting to consider a rethink of its central line adopted at the 2007 Coimbatore party congress — of bringing together “non-Congress and non-BJP” parties to form a “third alternative” — remained inconclusive. Some members noted the lack of credibility of the “third front”, and cited how the SP, BSP and RJD voted for the government in the parliamentary cut motion.

The lack of credibility of the “third front” envisaged by the CPI(M) at the national level in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections has virtually forced a re-think within the party about its central line and electoral strategy to move forward.

States such as Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar and Assam may face the danger of their Central funds being diverted to other better performing states under the Modernisation of State Police Forces (MPF) scheme. These states have been categorised as the worst performing states by the Union home ministry under the crucial

Sitaram Yechury, a member of his party’s politburo and the Rajya Sabha, is the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPI-M) key negotiator. Mr Yechury reportedly differed with his party on issues ranging from snapping ties with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to the expulsion of former Speaker Somnath Chatterjee from the CPI(M). In

A day after its drubbing in the West Bengal civic elections, a senior CPI(M) leader acknowledged here on Thursday that there was a sense of disconnect and of “alienation” between the people and the party.

In a bid to contain heavy influx of Bangladeshi migrants, the home ministry has decided to update the National Register of Citizens, 1951, in Assam as part of a pilot project to examine the feasibility of conducting the exercise in the entire state. It has been decided that 1971 will be the cut-off year for citizenship registration, which will take 1951 NRC or 1971 electoral rolls as a reference to update the NRC.