Union information and broadcasting ministry has forwarded the file — regarding action against former director general of Doordarshan Aruna Sharma in connection with the Commonwealth Games broadcasting rights scam that allegedly led to a loss of `135 crore — to the Prime Minister’s Office. The final call on the issue is now likely to be taken soon by the Prime Minister’s Office.

Indian jails suffer from 29.2 per cent overcrowding with the total prison population at a staggering 3,84,753 which is 0.034 per cent of the total population of the country. The home ministry last week reviewed the conditions of prisons and noted that most states have not been able to reduce

Thirteen trains originating from Delhi were cancelled on Sunday in the wake of the accident of the Kalka Mail at Malwa in UP. Also 25 trains were diverted from their original route as the railway traffic was affected following the train accident. The Northern Railways said that a number of trains were either

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s News International, which owns four newspapers in Britain, decided Thursday to shut down its controversial tabloid News Of The World in the midst of the growing phone hacking crisis.

Amid reports of financial irregularities in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), the

Centre is setting up mechanism to fight corruption at the grassroot level by roping in chartered accountants and state auditor generals. The

corruption watchdog at the local and state levels would function under the overall instruction of the CAG.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday asked the Army to hand over the man responsible for the death of 13-year-old Dilshan

to the state police to enable her government to deal with the case in accordance with law.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday also issued notices to the Union defence secretary and the Chennai police commissioner,

The P.C. Chacko-led JPC on the 2G spectrum issue will begin questioning witnesses, including former telecom secretaries and former TRAI

chiefs, from July 7. Sources said the panel is also likely to call the heads of the companies which have allegedly benefited from the 2G spectrum

scam. Former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, currently lodged in Tihar Jail, will also be produced before the panel on July 12.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s padyatra seems to be heading for trouble on the second day with the Aligarh district officials saying that it

would be a violation of prohibitory orders that have been in force for the past 20 days in the district.

While Maoists are known to have threatened and attacked Bihar’s politicians, officials and businessmen, now ordinary criminals and

commoners are increasingly being suspected to be using the Maoists’ name to do the same. A Patna shopkeeper’s arrest has pointed at this growing

trend.

Upholding the right of the farmers on their land as uppermost, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the restoration of 156 hectares of

land to them in Greater Noida’s Shahberi village acquired by the Mayawati government in the name of industrial development at a cheap rate but

provided to the builders at a very high price. Upholding the Allahabad high court's order quashing the acquisition, a bench of Justices G.S.