Visiting Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta met home minister P.

In a sudden move, the government on Saturday shunted out CRPF chief Vikram Srivastava and brought in K.

CPI(M) top brass will meet here on Monday to give final touches to its poll strategy in Bihar and discuss preparations for 2011 assembly elections in West Bengal and Kerala.

While it may take some time to go deep into the detailed reasons for arriving at the historic decision by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court in the four title suits on the Ayodhya dispute, it is clear that the judgment has struck a “conciliatory” note, and could become the guiding factor for the Centre to try for a “consensus” on accepting the findings as the judges have handed it the task of dividing the land as proposed.

Lord Ram is back at the centrestage of saffron politics. An upbeat BJP and RSS on Thursday said the Allahabad high court’s verdict on Ayodhya had paved the way for the construction of a “magnificent Ram temple” at the disputed site. Both RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, who was the architect of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, also appealed for restraint and said the verdict had opened a “new chapter of reconciliation” in the country.

Forget the competition between the two competing Asian giants, a large number of products being used in the CWG have come from China. Beginning with Shera cups, other souvenirs and merchandise products like the vuvuzelas and even T-shirts, to the furniture and fixtures used in the Games Village show “made in China” label being generously used.

The Games are only two days away but the Organising Committee is yet to get its accreditation act in place. Apart from the 7,000 performing artistes who will participate at the opening ceremonies, accreditation for doctors selected for Games village and Games venue duties, as well as more than 10,000 volunteers, besides the workers who have deployed for sanitation works is yet to become a reality. It is also causing coordination problems and raised serious security concerns.

Prasar Bharati, the regulatory body of Doordarshan news channels and All India Radio (AIR), on Thursday approached the Delhi high court against 24 channels for telecasting the Commonwealth Games (CWG) footage without their prior permission and sought an injunction against any further telecast as they had the sole rights to telecast the sports biggest extravaganza.

The spectators turning up for attending the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth games will have to brave well over four hours on account of security checks and other arrangements being put in place around Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium where the mega sporting event will kick off on October 3. The police officials said that at least

The Delhi government appears to have missed the Games deadline to rid the city of beggars. The prominent places in the city still show beggars well etched in against the much-hyped plan to make the city free of beggars before the Games.