The Central Reserve Police Force is likely to create an additional post of inspector general of police (operations) in every state where the force is deployed for anti-Naxal operations.

The BJP on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene and institute an impartial inquiry into the Gyaneshwari Express train disaster. The party also accused the CPI-M and the Trinamul Congress of fighting a political match over the accident.

The escalated attacks by Maoists on civilians has supplemented the latest findings of the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) that the Naxals have emerged as the “worst” human rights violators in India among all the insurgent organisations.

Warming up to the UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati with an apology, the expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday charged leaders of his former party for implicating him in a Rs 500 crore financial fraud case.

The questioning of American Lashker-e-Tayyaba terrorist David Headley is going to revolve around the places he had visited after the Mumbai terror attacks and the people he had remained in touch with during his stay in India.

The inaugural India-US strategic dialogue at the level of their foreign ministers, to be held in Washington on Thursday, will lay the ground for US President Barack Obama’s visit to India later this year. It will cover bilateral issues such as export controls, education, energy, climate change and counter-terrorism. External affairs minister S.M. Krishna and his American counterpart Hillary Clinton will also discuss a host of regional and global issues.

The BJP has asked government to make “all possible efforts” to extradite David Headley, who has confessed to his involvement in Mumbai terror attack. A team of Indian investigators is heading to the US to quiz the Headley.

The RSS, which is opposed to caste-based census, has asked the BJP to clarify its stand on the issue and clear the misconception that its affairs are controlled by the RSS. Though the BJP maintained that it favours caste-based census, some of its leaders are opposed to it.

The Centre is treading cautiously on four major issues — the Telangana state, women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and state legislature, internal security, especially Maoist attacks, and caste-based census at a time when political parties across the country are divided on it.

Taking a leaf out of AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s prescription on transparency in the party, the Bihar unit of the Congress has laid out a well-spread system for screening the candidates for the upcoming state Assembly elections. The party has decided to go it alone this time and will field its candidates from all 243 seats.