After facing flak for sitting over the mercy petition file of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru for over four years, the Delhi government on Monday decided to clear the file “shortly” while officials maintained that “the file is on the move”.

Despite the recent expression of bonhomie in relations with China, the government clearly is taking no chances. The government is considering raising of battalions of “Arunachal Scouts” and “Sikkim Scouts” by the Indian Army in the border states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim respectively to boost defence preparedness near the

India will get direct access of David Coleman Headley, wanted for his role in the 26/11 terror attacks, in the month of June.
Sources in the ministry said that lawyers of Headley were busy in May, and therefore, access to Headley was expected in June, sources in the Home Ministry said on Monday.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday condemned the dastardly attack by Maoists in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh in which many innocent citizens lost their lives. HRD minister Kapil Sibal said the Left-wing extremism is a big threat to the country and the government will have to tackle it through a policy framework.
He said handling of security is the second major achievement of the UPA-II which is set to complete one year next week.

Hours after Naxals blew up a bus in Chhattisgarh killing over 30 people, Union home minister P. Chidambaram said he had a “limited” mandate and has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for more, hinting at the demand by some states for use of air-support to tackle Maoists.

The Union home ministry on Monday condemned the Maoist attack in Dantewada in which more than 40 persons, including several special police officers (SPOs), were killed when the bus in which they were travelling was targeted. The Centre, however, made it clear that the Chhattisgarh government was alerted about the possible

A day after two persons died during a stampede at the New Delhi railway station, railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s ministry was busy trying to absolve itself of any blame. So it swiftly came up with “prima facie findings” on Monday. The findings predictably declared that “there was no stampede-like conditions on platform no. 12 and

BJP parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani has praised Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and said Muslims have fared better in Gujarat.
Citing Justice Rajinder Sachar’s report on minorities, Mr Advani, in the latest post on his blog, said “Gujarat should be grateful to Justice Sachar for proving convincingly to the country that under Narendra Bhai Modi’s regime Muslims are far better off than their compatriots in other states.”

Non-Congress-ruled states insist that they are being discriminated against on the key issue of food subsidy.
Non-Congress states, including UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa and Punjab, have been demanding the numbers of below poverty line (BPL) persons g

The Congress is feeling uncomfortable with the coming together of the NDA and the Left on certain issues inside Parliament.
The party spokesman Manish Tewari on Monday lamented that in the last one year of the UPA government, an “opportunistic anti-Congress” alliance has taken shape, which has compromised secularism.