In order to enforce judicial discipline, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a series of orders of a division bench of the Karnataka high court questioning some administrative directions of its controversial Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran on listing of certain cases being heard by the bench.

All the Indian nationals stranded in the two violence-hit towns of Osh and Jalalabad in Kyrgyzstan were safely evacuated by air on Monday night to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. The airlift was arranged by the Indian embassy in Bishkek with the active cooperation and support of the Kyrgyz authorities. There were an estimated 116 Indian

A move to amend a 53-year-old law to give independent rights to writers, lyricists and singers, thereby entitling them to royalty, on Tuesday came in for strong opposition from some film producers.

The National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, is all set to review the draft Food Security Bill in its first fullscale meeting on July 1.
“The NAC will discuss what shape the draft food security bill should take up,” said a government source.

After facing stiff opposition from the BJP and the Left, the government on Tuesday retracted on its move to dilute a key provision in the Nuclear Liability Bill after tough questioning by members of a parliamentary committee.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday booked former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and his two sons, Ajay and Abhay, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

In a move that would benefit a large number of skilled workers in defence establishments, the government on Tuesday raised their grade pay by partially amending the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations implemented in 2008 and restructured the cadre.

Star-struck BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday appointed actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani as the party’s women wing chief. Earlier too, many eyebrows were raised in the organisation when Mr Gadkari tried to nominate yesteryears’ “dream girl” Hema Malini for a Rajya Sabha berth from Madhya Pradesh. He was later forced to backtrack following a stiff resistance over her nomination from within the party. He, however, had already made Ms Malini the party’s vice-president.

The Congress has appointed at least half-a-dozen party leaders from Maharashtra as the central observers for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections at a time when the Raj Thackeray-led party has moved closer to it in Maharashtra.

The current mood in the Congress is not to ally with the RJD in the coming Bihar Assembly elections even as the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led party is backing the Manmohan Singh government in Parliament.