With the asbestos cancer pandemic estimated to be causing 30 deaths per day in India, residents of Bishnupur-Chainpur in Muzaffarpur in Bihar are up in arms, protesting the setting up of a factory in their village.

Doordarshan is set for a major image makeover as the government has cleared a proposal of `142 crores for commissioning new programmes and content for the national broadcaster. The plan is to create fresh and good quality content with the purpose of increasing viewership and popularity DD programmes.

The income-tax (IT) department in its largest ever cash haul has seized `44.20 crores from three Delhi-based commodity traders.
“These persons were found to be raising money from the public promising high returns. The area of operation of these persons was Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,

Immediately after taking over charge at his ministry on Thursday afternoon, new civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi said that he would hold consultations with all the unions of national carrier Air India to seek a solution to cure the airline of its financial ills. The minister made it clear that he would put his vast earlier experience as a trade unionist to good use in order to win the confidence of the unions and boost the morale of Air India and its employees.

What do ministers demoted in Thursday’s Cabinet reshuffle have to say, apart from licking their wounds? Well, while some have managed to smile and bear it, keeping their chins up in the face of “adversity”, others aren’t able to hide their displeasure.

The income-tax department carried out search and seizure at the offices of leading event management company Wizcraft International in context of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) probe.

A day after West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee agreed with home minister P. Chidambaram that “armed’’ camps in the Marxist-ruled state need to be disarmed and demobilised, the CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat refused to acknowledge Mr Bhattacharjee’s remarks. “He did not say this,” Mr Karat said on Thursday when he was asked about Mr Bhattacharjee’s acceptance of presence of armed camps in the state.

In a politically savvy move, Trinamul Congress leader and railway minister Mamata Banerjee is reported to have expressed her concern over the recent hike in petrol prices during a meeting of the Cabinet committee

NGO activist Teesta Setalvad, who found herself virtually on the wrong side of the law for writing about the Supreme Court proceedings in Gujarat riot cases to an international human rights body, was let off the hook by the top court on Thursday after she furnished an undertaking not to repeat the mistake in future.

The government is all set to ask the top brass of the Organising Committee (OC), which is facing several corruption charges, to step down from the posts they are holding.
Apart from facing corruption charges, the OC top brass has been reportedly refusing to sign some of the important documents leading to delays in clearing of payments