Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written a letter to Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee making it clear that it is not possible for the state government to send its views on the draft Lokpal Bill within a short period of six days. The CM also expressed surprise that the state government’s views have been

Keeping aside a petition on the forcible eviction of yoga guru Baba Ramdev from Delhi’s Ramlila Grounds here in the early hours Sunday, the Supreme Court on Monday rather took “suo motu” cognisance of the government’s post-midnight swoop on thousands of resting and sleeping people and issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi government on the alleged “brutalities” by the police in the eviction process.

As the pitch of the BJP’s 24-hour satyagraha heightened and a patriotic song, Yeh Desh Hai Veer Jawano Ka, was played to keep the atmosphere charged late on Sunday night at Rajghat, senior leader and Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj broke into a jig. She swayed to the beats with the BJP youth wing chief Mr Anurag

More than 24 hours after the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s anti-graft fast late Saturday, workers were dismantling tents at Ramlila Grounds on Monday amidst tight security arrangements.

A 42-year-old teacher with an M.Phil degree was sentenced to six years’ rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of `1 lakh by a Delhi court for inflicting severe physical abuse on her 17-year-old domestic help leading to the girl’s death in March 2007.

Raj Bala, the victim of the pre-dawn melee at the Ramlila Grounds on Sunday who received spinal injuries, is still critical at the G.B. Pant hospital in the capital. Raj Bala, 51, is one of the 71 people injured in the pre-dawn eviction at the Ramlila Grounds, where yoga guru Ramdev was holding his indefinite hungerstrike.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly. Prof. V.K. Malhotra on Monday criticised “indifferent” approach of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and her Cabinet for not visiting the injured of the Ramlila Ground, who are being treated in the city hospitals.

Advocates practising in various lower courts in Delhi will go on strike on June 8 to protest against the pre-dawn police crackdown on Sunday to evict Baba Ramdev and his followers from the Ramlila Grounds and also to protest against the malady of corruption in society.

After being served a notice by the Supreme Court for forcefully evicting Baba Ramdev and his supporters in the early hours of morning when they were asleep, the Delhi police is asking various TV news channels for footage to save themselves from the wrath of the law.

There was no relief for sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi with a special CBI court on Monday dismissing his bail plea saying that “allegations against him were of serious in nature”.