Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Madras zone topped the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination 2010 from amongst a total of 13,104 candidates who cleared the examination. Over 4.5 lakh candidates had appeared in JEE-2010 for seeking admission to 9,509 seats in 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU.

Take action against erring bureaucrats within a specific time-frame, don’t allow disciplinary proceedings to linger on endlessly. This message, conveyed by the Second Administrative Reforms Commission in mind, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) has now set up an expert panel to actually suggest how the disciplinary proceedings can be completed within a one-year time-frame.

Not satisfied with the oral statement of Uttar Pradesh government counsel on an alleged “fake encounter” of a Rajasthan youth in Mathura ten days ago, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Mayawati government to file an affidavit on the issue.

Another confusion was created on the mercy petition of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as his lawyer claimed that the condemned prisoner has sent a petition to the Supreme Court for a direction to the Union government to take an early decision on his clemency plea but the authorities in the top court denied receiving any such application.

Three forest officers have been suspended for allegedly attempting to cover up the killing of a 30-month-old tigress which died in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh on May 19.

Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao had said on Tuesday that the external affairs ministry had taken up the matter of visa denial “immediately and appropriately” with the Canadian high commission and the Canadian government.

Two information commissioners on Wednesday postponed the hearing of appeals till the government clears the air on the constitution of benches at the panel.
Information commissioners A.N. Tiwari and Deepak Sandhu did not carry out hearings on Wednesday while the chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah was

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has finally been given a slush fund for the nondescript amount of Rs 10 lakhs for gathering inputs on smugglers and poachers who have played havoc with Indian wildlife during the last decade.

The Central Reserve Police Force has constituted a court of inquiry to decide the punishment against the officials, including the deputy inspector-general Nalin Prabhat, who were found responsible for the lapses at the command level in the anti-Naxal operations in Dantewada, in which 76 personnel were killed by the Left-wing ultras on April 6.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday held consultations with the AICC general secretaries and the state party officials about the elections to the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Councils.