A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was convened on Thursday to discuss Karnataka governor Hansraj Bhardwaj’s report recommending President’s Rule in the state. But it failed to arrive at a decision, as leaders also looked at the possibility of recalling the governor. It

The Danish high court has rejected main accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case Kim Davy’s plea that the CBI’s arrest warrant cannot be the basis for his extradition to India since it had expired. The Danish court is likely to hear India’s plea seeking extradition of Davy in the first week of July.

Rushing into damage control mode after major goof-ups in India’s list of “50 most wanted” fugitives handed over to Pakistan, an embarrassed Union home ministry said Friday the entire list was being reviewed and steps would be taken to ensure that no such mistake occurred in future.

The CBI on Friday filed its chargesheet in the agency’s probe related to the result update system contract of the Commonwealth Games naming former chairman of the Organising Committee (OC) Suresh Kalmadi as a main accused. This was the CBI’s first chargehseet, filed in a Delhi court on Friday, related to the agency’ probe into the CWG cases.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee made history on Friday afternoon, taking the oath of office as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal. It was exactly a week after she had dethroned the CPI(M)-led Left Front, which ruled the state for the past 34 years. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who succeeded the iconic Jyoti Basu as

Social activist Anna Hazare here on Friday advocated inclusion of the Chief Election Commission of India and judiciary under the purview of the proposed Jan Lokpal Bill.
Addressing a huge and spontaneous anti-corruption rally, Mr Hazare said, “We want value-based politics and a corruption-free India. We won’t rest till we succeed in our mission.”

DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP, was arrested and sent to Tihar Jail on Friday by a Delhi court which dismissed her bail plea in the 2G spectrum scam case, saying there was a possibility of witnesses being influenced considering the “magnitude” of the crime.

Social activist Anna Hazare and his co-activists Swami Agnivesh here on Friday demanded that electronic voting machines used in the recently-concluded elections in Assam should be examined by an independent panel of expert.

Tihar Jail is currently home to a clutch of VIP inmates facing legal proceedings in corruption cases as investigative agencies have been granted rare permission to go after the “big fish”.

In an affidavit submitted to the two-member commission set up to probe the Adarsh Society scam, the suspended state information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari has stated that former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had approved all proposals related to the society.