The country’s premier technology institutes, the IITs, have been roped in to help develop a plan for cleaning the Ganga. To implement the scheme, the Union environment ministry has signed an agreement with a consortium of seven IITs to prepare a comprehensive basin management plan for rejuvenation of the river.

The government has petitioned the Supreme Court against a judgment of the Delhi high court that had ordered grant of permanent commission to women short service commission (SSC) officers in the Army. However, the government has accepted that part of the Delhi high court judgment which had ordered grant of permanent commission to women SSC officers in the Indian Air Force.

The overseas Indian affairs ministry has sought information from the Indian high commission in London about the alleged refusal of PIO card to Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul.

After months of dilly-dallying, the National Investigation Agency is set to file a chargesheet against American-Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist David Headley. Government sources said that the investigation against Headley is complete and now the government can proceed against Headley, who has confessed to his role in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai.

A colonel commanding his unit does not have to obey the “illegal and unlawful” commands of his superior officers to stage fake encounters even if there is “organisational pressure” on him, an order of the ministry of defence (MoD) issued in 2009, on the infamous “Ketchup” fake kills episode, has stated. This was the

Finding himself increasingly isolated in the Cabinet, minister of environment & forests Jairam Ramesh, has worked out a compromise with minister of mining Sriprakash Jaiswal.

The Centre will take a relook at its anti-Naxal strategy in a meeting with chief ministers of the Naxal-affected states on July 14. The meeting, expected to be addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will discuss the proposals placed before the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which includes appointing military advisers to the

Latest inputs with the Central intelligence agencies reveal that Naxals may repeat attacks like the ones in Dantewada and Narayanpur in blocks like Ghorgeda, Baghicha, Maudih and Tomia near Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh between July 13 and 15.

Minister of forest & environment (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh, announced the scrapping of two major hydel projects, the Pala Maneri (480 mw) and the Bhaironghati (381 mw) on the Bhagirathi river.

There are indications that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh might go in for reshuffling his team, besides inducting a few new faces before the ensuing session of Parliament, which is scheduled to begin in the last week of this month.