A three-member team of a child rights body has sought suspension of the principal of Kolkata’s La Martiniere school till the completion of a probe into the suicide of a student who committed suicide after being caned in school.

Prompted by the rising Naxal violence, the Centre has begun the process of identifying new districts where Naxal violence has spread. The government is mulling expanding its current list of 34 “worst affected’’ districts with the Union home ministry conducting a survey to study the “violence profile’’ of districts plagued by Left Wing

The Planning Commission has put up a difficult poser before an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food security suggesting to do away with the above poverty line (APL) category under the public distribution system (PDS).

The Supreme Court’s attention has been drawn by NGO Shakti Vahini in its petition on the “honour killings” to nine parameters used for denigrating the women and urged the apex court to have a deep look into these “honour codes” to lay down the guidelines to save the fairer sex from any kind of social discrimination.

Amidst spate of honour killings being reported from Delhi, Haryana and western UP, officials maintain that though they can not be fully averted, some preventive steps could be initiated to bring such cases down, with the police playing a proactive role in association with community leaders.

Following the rapid rise in honour killings and Supreme Court taking cognisance, the Union law and justice ministry has swung into action to bring a legislation in this regard in the Monsoon Session starting mid-July.

Caught in the so-called compulsion of votebank politics, both the two major political parties — Congress and BJP — on Tuesday preferred to tread cautiously on khap panchayats by lobbing the ball in the government’s court.

Former Union minister Vasant Sathe on Tuesday said there was nothing wrong or illegal in giving safe passage to then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson and the Congress should not feel embarrassed about it.

Ahead of a series of bilateral meetings, India on Tuesday demanded “credible” action by Pakistan in the Mumbai 26/11 terror attack case, saying the core issue of addressing the country’s concerns on the issue will be part of these parleys.

The oldest submarine in service with the Indian Navy — INS Vela — will be decommissioned after a whopping 37 years of service on June 25 at Vizag, defence sources have confirmed.