A 2002-batch IPS Chhattisgarh IPS officer, Bilaspur SP Rahul Sharma, on Monday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver, the police said.

Around a dozen US newspapers have raised questions about an abortion-related Doonesbury comic strip set for publication next week, and some will likely not run it, the syndicate behind the cartoon said on Friday.

Two days after the young police officer Narendra Kumar was crushed to death by a tractor-trolley carrying illegally mined stones at Bamore, in Madhya Pradesh’s Murena district, a police team led by SDO J.N. Markam was fired at by those engaged in illegal mining of sand along the Ken river, about 20 km from the Ajaigarh police station in Panna district, on Saturday.

The Shiromani Akali Dal Legislature Party on Friday unanimously elected Mr Parkash Singh Badal as their leader, paving the way for creating history for his swearing-in as chief minister of Punjab for a fifth term.

The Madhya Pradesh government, under attack from all sides after the killing of a young IPS officer, allegedly by the mining mafia, on Friday ordered a judicial probe into the murder of 30-year-old Narendra Kumar Singh.

After getting support of four MLAs (three Independents and one UKD-P), the Congress on Friday staked its claim to forming a government in Uttarakhand. However, a formal invitation will come from governor Margaret Alva only after the party can elect a CLP leader. This is delayed as there are four serious contenders.

The main Opposition Congress on Friday carried out a frontal assault on the BJP government by in Madhya Pradesh, accusing chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and several others holding positions of authority in the state of patronising the mining mafia.

With “differences” persisting with China over the boundary issue, India on Friday said the newly-introduced working mechanism between the two countries would help in “minimising” or “bridging” them.

Noting that India and Pakistan have made “major strides” in reducing their trust deficit, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna on Friday said he will visit Islamabad this summer.

In a major legal triumph for BJP state strongman B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka high court on Wednesday declared as “bad in law” a chapter in the Lokayukta report that indicted him on illegal mining and caused his exit as chief minister.