Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, referring to Mr Santosh Hegde, the Lokayukta in his state, said, “He is investigating the mining issue. As early as possible, we are going to refer all cases, starting from 2002. Soon the truth will come out. Whoever is the culprit, we will punish them,” Mr Yeddyurappa added. He alleged that the

The AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, who had raised a storm by calling the home minister P. Chidambram “intellectually arrogant”, has said that he doesn’t regret the remark and still stands by it. He also added that he simply articulated the views of the party. His criticism of Mr Chidambaram’s handling of the Maoist menace, however, was rejected by the party.

The Karnataka unit of the Congress demanded the imposition of President’s Rule in the state invoking the use of Article 356, if the chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa did not tender his resignation over the “illegal mining” issue.

Even as deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that it is too early to make any assessment of the impact of special package to Bundelkhand, Congress has sent a central team to the region (districts falling under Madhya Pradesh) to look into alleged irregularities in the implementation of the ambitious projects spearheaded by party general secretary and youth icon Rahul Gandhi.

An MCD employee, who lost his vision in a mishap, has been awarded a compensation of Rs 30.57 lakhs by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT). The victim had met with the accident last year. In a recent order, presiding officer Gurvinder Pal Singh directed the insurance company to pay the victim, Bali Ram Singh, the amount within a month after holding the autorickshaw driver responsible for the accident.

The Centre on Saturday reviewed the security set-up for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in the capital.
Home secretary Gopal K. Pillai reviewed the arrangements being put in place at the various Games venues. Mr Pillai visited the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, the venue of both opening and closing ceremonies, and conducted an on the spot assessment of the security measures being put in place.

The underpasses in the capital at various important intersections were supposed to be an integral part of the solution from traffic jams. However, whenever it rains, they get submerged further worsening the problem, rather than solving it. Officials with various civic agencies, however, seemed to be resigned to the problem saying not

A city court has sought the response of Tihar jail authorities on the plea of the prime accused in the Soumya Vishwanathan murder case, Ravi Kapoor, in which he had alleged that the prison officials were pressurising him to withdraw a complaint against certain officers.

The in situ slum rehabilitation plan of the DDA has hit a roadblock with private developers saying that they be awarded four to five clusters in one batch in order to make them financially feasible. The DDA has identified 21 slum clusters for in-situ rehabilitation. According to sources in DDA, the private developers had planned to use the pre-fabricated (pre-fab) structure technology for developing pucca settlements for the slum dwellers at the same place where they exist now.

The chairman of the MCD’s works committee, Mr Jagdish Mamgain, has written a letter to the Delhi lieutenant-governor seeking his intervention to resolve the deadlock between various agencies so that the corporation’s Commonwealth Games 2010-related projects could be completed on time, at least for now.