Protests broke out outside the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital on Sunday evening after a 24-year-old, suspected of raping a minor girl in Hauz Qazi, was allegedly let off by the police from the hospital.

Government agencies will have to go in for a strict security audit of their websites on a regular basis following the recent hacking of the CBI website, according to new guidelines issued by the Centre on Monday.

The reform of international monetary institutions and the situation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, the Korean peninsula and Iran can be expected to figure in the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week.

France and Germany may agree to disagree on many issues but on Pakistan, they are unanimous that it must do more to combat terrorism.
Visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Pakistan must fight terrorism “determinedly”, and expeditiously bring the 26/11 terrorists to justice.

France is understood to be considering equipping two of the six Scorpene submarines — currently being built at the Mazgaon shipyard in India under transfer of technology — with the Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology that enables the conventional diesel-electric submarines to stay underwater for longer periods of time,

In an effort to promote partnership in higher and technical education and research, India and France signed two MoUs for cooperation in these fields on Monday.
The first MoU is aimed at setting up an International Joint Laboratory between Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement and the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

The CBI is likely to question former telecom minister A. Raja in connection with its probe into the 2G spectrum scam very soon. Besides, the ED, which is also probing the 2G scam, may soon question Mr Raja in connection with the alleged scam.

After finding several deficiencies in the status reports of four “test case” states in implementing the Supreme Court’s 2006 verdict on “police reforms”, a special bench, headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia made it plain to all the states that they could not “escape” putting in place the “reform model” as the court was very serious about improving the law and order as well as criminal justice system in the country.

CVC P.J. Thomas has apparently thrown the ball in the Centre’s court by refusing to put in his papers before the government “officially’’ gives him a clean chit in the decade-old Palmolein import case pending against him in Kerala.

With both the sides — ruling and Opposition parties — toughening their respective stand on the formation of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the alleged 2G spectrum allocation scam, the deadlock in Parliament continued on Monday and appeared to be far from being resolved.