The race to occupy the Cabinet Secretary’s post has begun. Current Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar completes his tenure on June 13 after what will be a fairly long innings of four years as the country’s top-most civil servant.

Two more CRPF jawans succumbed to their injuries at Jagdalpur hospital early on Wednesday morning taking the total death toll in Tuesday’s Maoist landmine blast in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district to seven, the police said.

Trinamul Congress chief and chief minister-designate of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee will resign as Union railway minister on Thursday. Her resignation will come a day before she is sworn in as the chief minister of Bengal.

Four Indian Navy personnel, including two officers, died and a dozen others were reportedly injured when a floodgate at the ship repair unit of the dockyard collapsed during routine operations at the Visakhapatnam Naval Dockyard on Wednesday.

A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of the sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi for 14 days more.

The Congress, set to join the Mamata government in Bengal, is likely to get in two ministers during the first phase of the Cabinet formation on Friday.
One is likely to be a minority face, Mr Mohammed Sohrab. The names of Ajay Dey and Rabindra Chatterjee are doing the rounds for the second berth.
Sources disclosed that the Congress has asked for six berths which include three Cabinets and three ministers of state.

Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj and the man he has been trying to dislodge from office, chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, were all smiles when they met face to face on Wednesday, with the governor proclaiming that the CM and he were “friends” and even holding BSY’s hands at one point. But once the cameras were turned off, both men had a go at each other.

Upholding the right of a girl child in the joint property of a Hindu family, the Supreme Court in yet another important judgment ruled that if she is discriminated against, she can reopen the case for partition of the property to claim her rightful share even after a decree is passed by the cour

Ms Mamata Banerjee will be happy if Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee attends her swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan, a Trinamul Congress MLA said on Wednesday. Ms Banerjee will take oath as the new chief minister at 1.01 pm on Friday.

Delhi revenue minister A.K. Walia on Wednesday said that he would take up the issue of hike in Haj quota for the city with the Central government.
Dr Walia on Wednesday undertook a draw of lots to select 719 aspirants for Haj pilgrimage out of 6,889 applicants. Delhi power minister Haroon Yusuf was also present on the occasion.