Deciding an important constitutional question arising out of the taking over of a piece of land of an erstwhile “zamindar” by the Andhra Pradesh under the Zamindari Abolition Act that came into force after the independence, the Supreme Court has ordered fresh look into the case as the State was “wrongly” represented by the district collector concerned.

The first day of the sale of tickets for the Commonwealth Games indicated that all is not well between the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee headed by Suresh Kalmadi and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. The chief minister was not invited in the function, which was otherwise attended by the Delhi lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna and the city mayor Prithvi Raj Sawhney.

The Centre has been told by MPs belonging to Naxal-affected districts to desist from deploying the Army in anti-Naxal operations. While MPs from West Bengal facing Maoist violence in certain districts said that there was little coordination between the Central and state police forces, CPI MP from Medinipur (West Bengal) Prabodh

Telecom minister A. Raja has taken away telecom subjects from minister of state (MoS) Gurudas Kamat and given them to other MoS Sachin Pilot.
There is speculation that Mr Raja took this step as the two differed on the functioning of some of the telecom PSUs. “No issue. Mr Raja has the prerogative,” said Mr Kamat.

The Centre may be all eager to launch an offensive against “Red terror”, but the infrastructure of the forces to execute the plan seems to be in shambles. As far as the Border Security Force (BSF), one of the security agencies also engaged in the counter-insurgency operations, is concerned, two of the three helicopters that the Union home ministry had purchased for the force are now in a state of neglect.

Lady Short Service Commission (SSC) officers in the Indian Air Force could soon be offered permanent commission (PC) by the government which may only partly challenge a recent Delhi high court verdict in the Supreme Court. Well-placed defence sources told this newspaper that the government may take a view that since the

With reports appearing in media suggesting his and his family’s alleged involvement in IPL bidding for Pune team, NCP chief and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Friday strongly denied the charges. The ruling Congress, though, left the Maratha strongman to defend for himself, main Opposition BJP demanded the minister’s resignation.

The Armed Forces Tribunal on Friday turned down former Military Secretary Lt. Gen. Avadesh Prakash’s plea to allow his realtor friend as a witness in the reconvened Court of Inquiry (CoI) in the Sukna land scam case.

Even as a lot of hullabaloo is being raised over the “delay” in decision on the mercy petition of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru which was made in 2006, at least 16 out of the 29 such petitions pending with the President’s secretariat were last submitted in 2005. While a couple of them are under consideration of the state governments, many of these have been re-submitted twice. A few others have been re-submitted thrice.

India and South Africa on Friday inked three pacts, including one on air services, as the leaders of the two countries discussed ways to provide fresh impetus to bilateral ties and agreed to extend support to each other for the UNSC non-permanent seat for 2011-2012 term.