A Delhi court, in an important order, has said that an erring public servant can be prosecuted by his present department even if he had committed the offence while working in a different department.

The Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta has written to UP chief minister Mayawati, recommending action against minister for minority welfare, Anees Ahmad Khan a.k.a. Phool Babu for misappropriation of legislators’ funds.

Three persons were killed and a woman was critically injured while many others are feared trapped when a four-storeyed under-construction building collapsed in west Delhi’s Nihal Vihar area on Tuesday evening.

Within days of BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari being convicted for murder, another BSP MLA — this time also a former minister — has been convicted in an abduction and murder case.

“What is left to say or ask? The whole family has been wiped out. Nothing is left; no one is left to say anything,” an agitated relative of Sunil Sharma shouted at media persons when asked for his reaction to the catastrophic accident near Shimla in Himachal Pradesh on Monday afternoon that left 10 people dead.

In what seems to be a bid to compel the Union government to accept his report seeking the dismissal of the BJP government in Karnataka, governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Tuesday made a strategic move by disclosing contents of the special report sent to the Centre on Sunday.

In a third such incident of its kind, a Spanish national was allegedly robbed by bike-borne assailants in Mandir Marg area in the heart of the national capital on Monday evening.

In what was a mere formality, veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi was unanimously elected as leader of the Assam Pradesh Congress Legislature Party for the third consecutive term on Tuesday.

Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Prof. V. K. Malhotra, criticised the city government for unabated power cuts and shortage of water in the capital.
“Irrespective of the promises of chief minister Sheila Dikshit the situation in the capital remains grim. People are facing acute shortages of water and electricity,” Prof. Malhotra said in a statement.

Even before the defeat of the party at the hustings could sink in, a blame game seems to have begun in the DMK camp. According to sources, many in the DMK are of the view that former telecom minister A. Raja and Rajya Sabha MP and party chief M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi are responsible for the debacle as they disgraced the party in the 2G spectrum scam.