The multi-crore hawala scam, involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his former Cabinet colleagues, may be handed over to India’s premier investigating agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The current dates for onset of monsoon in different areas of the country may change from the next season. The scientists are working to revise the current dates in the backdrop of more comprehensive database at their disposal. The current normal dates for onset of monsoon in Kerala is June 1 and, in Delhi, it is June 29.

In the wake of various legal hurdles coming in the way of deciding cases of child custody on the break-up of the marriages of Indian girls with NRIs or vice-versa, 30 million people of Indian origin living abroad are awaiting for a promised legislation by the government to deal with the problem.

The government is not likely to succeed in reopening the settlement issue in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, says noted jurist Fali S. Nariman.
“No, I don’t think so,” he said on whether government will succeed in reopening the settlement with Union Carbide with the hope of increasing the compensation amount f

Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them.

A London court is likely to hear India’s plea seeking extradition of Ravi Shankaran, a key accused in the naval war room leak case, today.
According to sources the CBI, which has gone unrepresented in two hearings, had sought assistance of the Crown Prosecutor Services now to represent the case in the British court for his extradition which was necessary for the naval war room leak case to unravel the missing links.

Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi can be drafted for campaigning in Bihar for the Assembly elections and BJP alone will decide who it should depute, party chief Nitin Gadkari said on Sunday, indicating that he will not be swayed by JD(U) leaders opposing such a move.

The Canadian high commission has finally issued visa to a former Intelligence Bureau officer after its denial to grant him the travel document evoked an outrage here.
Former Intelligence Bureau deputy director S.S. Sidhu, whose visa application was turned down by the high commission on March 26, has now got a multiple visa for three days to visit the country.

The fuel price rise issue is refusing to die down. While AICC leader Anil Shastri has come out openly against it saying the rise is disastrous as it has badly affected the “common man”, the Oppostion parties are planning to hold a Bharat bandh on the issue before the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

Even as newly appointed West Bengal PCC chief Manas Ranjan Bhunia said he will work hard to strengthen the party in the state, Congress insiders said the new PCC chief has his job cut out for him with a section insisting that an alliance with the Trinamul Congress should be only on “honourable terms”.