The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a magisterial probe into allegations that victims of Mirchpur Dalit violence were being targeted by those accused of killing an elderly Dalit and his daughter in the village.

Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car maker, said on Monday its profit rose marginally by half a percent to 659.9 crores (Rs.6,599 million) in the fourth quarter of 2010-11.

An Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, who had landed in trouble after blowing the whistle on alleged forest scam in Haryana, has sought a CBI probe into his charges of irregularities involving some politicians and officers in the state as well as in the environment ministry.

Criticising Congress leader Digvijay Singh for "speaking too much" on the issue of corruption, BJP on Monday said he himself was deep in the "quagmire of corruption" with a court ordering an inquiry against him.

Sports minister Ajay Maken on Monday directed the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to select a new president after the CBI arrested Suresh Kalmadi, former chairman of Commonwealth Games organising committee, for alleged irregularities in the contracts awarded for the 2010 mega event.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Monday welcomed the arrest of former Commonwealth Games (CWG) organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, but said it was a delayed step.

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would examine the maintainability of Andhra Pradesh's petition challenging the Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal (KWDT) Award allocating additional quantum of water to Karnataka and Maharashtra allegedly at the cost of its own interests.

A special court here on Monday summoned Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi's daughter and DMK MP Kanimozhi and four others to appear before it on May 6 as accused in 2G spectrum case saying "there is enough incriminating material on record" to proceed against them.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had initiated a back-channel exercise for talks between an “unofficial” Indian envoy and Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani 10 months ago, a media report here said on Saturday.

CPI national secretary D. Raja has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that a proposal by government’s chief economic adviser to legalise bribery as “dangerous and unethical,” and sought a clarification by the government on the issue.