Some top ranking officials of certain nationalised banks in Jammu and Kashmir are under the scanner of the intelligence agencies for their alleged involvement in circulation of fake Indian currency notes in the state, besides a few others in the northern region of the country.

A 20-year-old Merchant Navy student committed suicide at his hostel in east Delhi’s Uttam Nagar on Tuesday afternoon, apparently after allegedly facing harassment at his hostel.

India and Pakistan on Tuesday resolved the issue relating to the initial filling of Baglihar dam in Jammu and Kashmir with the neighbouring country deciding not to raise the matter further.

The CPI(M), which accused the Trinamul of having links with Maoists, also referred to home minister P. Chidambaram “concurring’’ to the West Bengal government’s decision to reject a CBI probe into the Gyaneswari Express train tragedy. The CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday dismissed Trinamul chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegations that the civic polls in Bengal were “rigged’’.

Cracking the whip against medical quacks, the Supreme Court on Tuesday banned the practice by thousands of “Ayurvedic” practitioners not having the valid certificates or diplomas from recognised institutions. The ban will apply to all “Vaidya Virsharad” or “Ayurved Ratna” awarded certificates or diplomas by the unrecognised institutions

A larger bench of the Supreme Court will decide an important question of counting the six months time for the trial courts to set in motion the process for mutually agreed divorce between husband and wife under the Hindu Marriage Act.

If the government asks the Army to set up a unified command and join the war against the Maoists, it could turn to the Rashtriya Rifles which has acquired considerable expertise in counter-insurgency operations in the thick forests of Jammu and Kashmir. A minimum of three operational sectors with three Army battalions posted in each could be put in place if the Army is ordered to directly confront the Maoists, sources said.

June 1: Old habits die hard. So it came as no surprise when Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee decided to skip the Cabinet meeting here on Tuesday even though she’d returned to the Capital after a long gap. She, however, did go to the PM’s 7, Race Course Road residence in the evening for the release of the UPA-1 report card.

Claiming that constitution of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was one of the high points of the UPA-2’s first year in office, the government on Tuesday said, the first batch of Unique ID numbers to Indian residents will be rolled out this year only.

The UPA-2 report card released on Tuesday said that as part of the social welfare measures of the government, the focus was on rural housing, drinking water, roads and electricity besides supporting the crippling farm sector.