May 11: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition by former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa challenging the very process of investigation in the disproportionate assets case against her, currently under trial in a special court in Bengaluru.

May 11: Home minister P. Chidambaram has said that overcoming the insurgency in the Northeast and Naxalism was “within our control” but combating terrorism of the jihadi kind posed a “more difficult problem”.

May 11: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday refused to succumb to the popular pressure from the khap panchayat demanding legal ban on same gotra (clan or lineage) marriage.

May 11: It could be troubled time for government doctors in Uttar Pradesh. Purging of anti-social elements from the party, as ordered by BSP chief and UP chief minister Mayawati, has extended to the government doctors in the state indulging in private practices.

May 11: China has now become a taboo word for a clearly defensive minister of environment and forests (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh.
“I am not going to speak a single word on China,” a visibly chastened Mr Ramesh told journalists as he entered the Ashoka Hotel banquet hall to release a report on India’s Greenhouse Gas Emission 2007.

May 11: Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily on Tuesday stated that Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, who has been sentenced to death in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case, could be hanged within a year.

May 11: The CBI will file a chargesheet in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation and suicide case next month. The agency officials have also made it clear that the narco analysis test on the former Haryana DGP, S.P.S Rathore, who had earlier given his consent for the same, would not be conducted now.

May 11: External affairs minister S.M. Krishna will visit Islamabad on July 15 for talks with his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi. In Islamabad, Mr Qureshi was careful to avoid any suggestion of a resumption of the stalled composite dialogue, which, New Delhi has studiously maintained, would have to wait till after Islamabad has brought the 26/11 terrorists to justice.

May 11: Union human resources development ministry’s plan to establish a National Higher Education Funding Corporation, to fulfil UPA government’s agenda to provide accessibility to

May 11: Keen to make the National Intelligence Grid (NIG) fully operational by May 2011, the home ministry is finalising the detailed project report of the NIG which will be placed before home minister P. Chidambaram soon for approval.