The Board of Control for Cricket in India is set to issue showcause notices to a bunch of Indian players for their alleged involvement in an altercation in a St. Lucia nightclub hours after their exit from the World T20 Championships last Tuesday.

The National Investigation Agency Monday filed a chargesheet against 11 members of a Hindu outfit, Sanathan Sanstha, over a Goa blast on October 16 last year in which two persons were killed.

The Legal Services Authority (Nalsa) functioning under the patronship of Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia has come out with a series of measures to improve the free legal aid to the poor, who could not afford to engage lawyers to fight their cases due to their high fee.

After the sanitation ratings, it is time for the cities to look out for the “surveillance ratings” being carried out by rating agencies for various urban local bodies (ULBs) in the country. These ratings are crucial as they may be used by the cities to leverage funds from financial institutions, both national and international.

When a deep churning is going on within the political parties on the contentious issue of “caste census”, the Supreme Court’s verdict on reservation in panchayats and other local bodies could prove a handy guidance to the government as it has strongly recommended “rigorous empirical inquiry” into the exact number of OBCs in the country.

Climate experts at the first South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SACOF) meet comprising South Asian countries who met in Pune last week believe the monsoon this year could be less than normal. Countries attending the meet included Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, all of whom are dependent on the monsoon for their food production.

The Delhi high court on Monday directed the CBI to verify the facts after going through the plea of the former Medical Council of India’s president, Ketan Desai, who has knocked the court for an urgent hearing on his bail application as his mother has been hospitalised and he has to attend on her.

The heatwave sweeping across the northern plains on Monday tightened its grip as the mercury rose to a searing 46.6 degree Celsius in Churu in Rajasthan and 45.4 degrees in the national capital.

Not impressed by the tall claims made by highways minister Kamal Nath of constructing 20 km of National Highway (NH) everyday, the Planning Commission on Monday hinted that the panel would be happy to see the country getting addition of barely 6 km on a daily basis.

India has sought to keep its trade and energy ties with Iran on an even keel by proposing to host the next joint-commission meeting here within a few weeks.
External affairs minister S.M. Krishna on Monday conveyed New Delhi’s interest in resuming talks with Mr Manouchehr Mottaki, the Bengaluru-educated foreign minister of Iran, when they met in Tehran on the margins of the G-15 summit.