With the Karnataka government rejecting suggestions for a CBI probe, the Union mines ministry is looking at other means to crack down on the mining mafia in the state.
In the face of the Karnataka government's resistance to a CBI probe, the matter was referred to the Cabinet, and the issue was discussed in the Prime Minister's office, t

In a bid to check the rampant malpractices in the realty sector, the Competition Commission has decided to suo motu enquire if various developers are misleading the buyers, apart from looking into specific complaints against the market leader DLF.

City Corporation managing director Aniruddh Deshpande has denied keeping the Indian Premier League in the dark about bidding in “individual capacity” for the Pun franchise but conceded that the company’s name was used in the bid documents he submitted.

The upcoming elections in the Badminton Association of India are under the scanner of the sports ministry who have asked the badminton federation chief V.K. Verma on Sunday to divulge details of the June 13 general body meeting and the election process.

In an important judgment on the preservation of the autonomy of statutory bodies set up under the law, the Supreme Court has said no functionary of the government, not even the chief minister, can supersede decisions taken by such bodies in the course of implementing the policies of the state.

While a group of ministers has been constituted to discuss the issue of listing castes in Census 2011, the ongoing demographic exercise is throwing up a complex problem. At present, even legitimate Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are not being bracketed in their respective categories if they live outside their home state and do not figure in the list of STs and SCs notified by the state in which they reside.

The Union law and justice ministry is preparing a welfare scheme for training of lawyers from rural and backward parts of the country. As part of this scheme, each senior advocate in the Supreme Court and high courts will be requested to take in two fresh law graduates under their wings. The scheme, a brainchild of Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily, is aimed at integrating first-generation lawyers from backward parts of the country into the mainstream.

Trouble for agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, who is embroiled in the IPL bid controversy, appears to have further increased, as BCCI president Shashank Manohar on Saturday claimed that the IPL Governing Council did not know that Aniruddha Deshpande of the City Corporation entered the bid ring in his individual capacity for the

Ruling Congress’ central leadership may not have approved Kadappa MP Jaganmohan Reddy’s yatra in Andhra Pradesh, but the Union government is readying to approve a proposal to adopt Rajiv Arogyashree scheme, a cherished programme initiated by his father and former AP chief minister Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy in the state.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna will visit Uzbekistan next week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, which is likely to endorse the opening up of the membership of the six-member regional grouping to include countries such as India.