Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave an assurance Thursday that the government would examine what it could do amid demands that it stop the auction of 12 paintings by Rabindranath Tagore due to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on June 15.

The director-general of the National Cadet Corps, Lt. Gen. R.K. Karwal, has asked Commonwealth Games organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi to reconsider his decision to do away with taking the help of National Cadet Corps cadets from outside the Delhi region “lest it become a demotivating factor.”

The CBI has asked the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India to form a special team to go through the financial part of the investigations in connection with 2G spectrum auctions in which the union telecom minister A. Raja is facing charges of corruption.

The CBI has registered a disproportionate assets case against tainted former chairman of the Medical Council of India (MCI), Ketan Desai, and his family members. So far, the CBI has recovered unaccounted assets to the tune of Rs 24 crores.

Citing the “successful” bidding of 3G spectrum, the BJP on Thursday alleged that it has proved that the 2G spectrum auction “went for a song.” Sharing the same view Left parties demanded sacking of telecom minister Mr A. Raja while BJP questioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s silence on alleged acts of “corruption and

In a week-long drive carried out against spurious, sub-standard and unauthorised manufacture and sale of drugs, as well as against adulteration of petroleum products, the CBI has registered a total of 17 cases all over the country. The drive began on May 12.

Finding out the Class 12, 2010 results, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, may be smoother this year as the board has introduced a centralised access system similar to that of a call centre.

To preempt any move by the Centre to get interim stay on the order of Madras high court directing Census Commission to include identity of caste of every citizen as an additional factor in the ongoing census, an advocate on whose petition the order was passed filed a caveat in the Supreme Court.

Will cyclone Laila stall the progress of the Indian monsoon which provides four-fifth’s of the country’s rainfall and which will also provide relief from these scorching temperature?

The Centre on Thursday lashed out at Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government for ignoring rights of minority and the Central schemes meant for the community. During an interaction at the Planning Commission for the finalisation of the state plan for the year 2010-11, it was found that Gujarat had proposed just a “token provision of Rs 1 lakh” this year against Rs 325 lakhs last year as share capital to Gujarat Minority Finance and Development Corporation.