BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, much to the chagrin of a section of top party leaders, on Tuesday re-inducted expelled saffron sanyasin Uma Bharti into the BJP. She has been tasked with improving the party’s prospects in Uttar Pradesh where Assembly polls are due next year.

Clearly stung by its experiences in dealing with both yoga guru Baba Ramdev and noted social activist Anna Hazare, the government has decided that it will engage with civil society from a position of strength in the future.
Top government sources also told this newspaper that the government will now tread more cautiously in its dealing

In a bid to convey the message that the government means business where tackling corruption is concerned even among its own, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday reminded his council of ministers to declare their assets and business interests by August 31. The declaration is sought under the government’s code of conduct for

The retirement of seven Supreme Court judges in the next four months is going have a major impact on some important cases with the “black money” matter to be the first causality as Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, heading the bench monitoring the probe into it is set to superannuate soon after reopening of the apex court on July 4.

The Centre, which on Monday had gone ahead with a scheduled meeting of the Lokpal Bill joint drafting committee despite a boycott by its civil society members, sent another tough signal on Tuesday with the Delhi police refusing permission to Anna Hazare for holding a 24-hour protest fast at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday. The police said it could not be allowed as prohibitory orders are in force across the entire New Delhi district.

The Central probe agencies have started scrutinising details provided by Balkrishna, a close aide of Baba Ramdev, for getting a passport in 1998. According to sources, the agencies are probing whether he lied and provided false documents to get his passport.

A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) court has awarded a compensation over `30 lakh to a 51-year-old businessman who is bed ridden after spinal cord injuries sustained in a motorbike accident in 2010.
Directing Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Ltd, which had insured the offending vehicle, MACT judge Sanjay Kumar Aggarwal said, “I award `30,80,047 as compensation to the victim.”

The Congress, on Tuesday, ruled out any alliance with the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party for the coming UP Assembly polls.

In an important ruling the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has said that pension and increments of a public servant can not be withheld only on the basis of a pending criminal case unless the person is convicted.
Giving a huge relief to Lakhi Ram, headmaster with Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run primary school, a two-member bench of the CAT headed by Justice Meera Chhibber said, “It is amply clear that only on the basis of the

The Delhi high court is likely to pronounce the order on the bail plea of Rajya Sabha DMK MP Kanimozhi on Wednesday, along with that of Kalaignar TV CEO and MD Sharad Kumar, arrested and chargesheeted by the CBI in connection with the 2G spectrum scam case.