Hockey India on Friday adopted a tough stance, asking for a “police inquiry” against women’s hockey coach Maharaj Krishan Kaushik after complaints of sexual harassment surfaced against him.

Successive Indian Prime Ministers have strongly believed that talks with Pakistan is the only way to end 60 years of suspicion and hate, and Manmohan Singh is no exception. He told Parliament after the Sharm el-Sheikh talks that “dialogue and engagement is the best way forward”. His predecessor, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has said, “We cannot change our neighbours, we have to live with them”.

In the wake of Indian sports facing one controversy after the other and politicians clinging to the top positions of various sports bodies for decades, noted jurists led by former Chief Justice of India J.S. Verma on Saturday felt an urgent need for enacting special laws to regulate sports in India.

Representatives of the Central and West Bengal governments and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Saturday discussed the modalities on how to carry forward the dialogue process on the demands of the GJM.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday said India is hopeful of getting “something” from Pakistan on the information provided to it last month on Mumbai attacks and “is willing to give it some time” in this regard.

Still looking for crucial evidence that could take them to the killers more than two years after the death of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj in Noida, the CBI, probing the double murder case, is now concentrating its investigation on the SMSes and the call details of the mobile phones of the two deceased.

The relocating of a six-year-old tiger codenamed T-12 to Sariska Tiger Reserve from the Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur has resulted in a fresh controversy.

The DGCA has stipulated — in a draft regulation issued — that foreign military aircraft can only overfly Indian airspace if the diplomatic mission of that country in India receives permission from the Indian ministry of external affairs and the necessary “AOR code” from the concerned armed forces headquarters. In the draft regulation

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah pressed for amendments to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), stating it will help rebuild trust and faith in minds and hearts of the young in the state.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee assured the states that they will be fully compensated by the government on possible losses arising from implementation of the goods and services tax (GST).