Security has been beefed up in Tihar’s Jail Number 1 after former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi was taken in a 14-day judicial custody.

In anticipation of what could happen on May 6, when she appears before the CBI court in connection with the 2G scam, DMK Rajya Sabha MP and the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s daughter Kanimozhi landed in Delhi on Wednesday. Her husband Aravindan and son Aditya accompanied her to the capital. She is all set to be joined by her mother Rajathi Ammal late in the night.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement in the black money case after a marathon hearing stretching several sessions during the past six months when the government came under fire on numerous occasions for the “failure” of its agencies to investigate country’s biggest unaccounted money trail allegedly involving

Evidently acknowledging the immense political influence expatriates continue to have back home in Punjab, both Congress president Amarinder Singh and chief minister Parkash Singh Badal have hailed the success of Punjabis in the recently concluded Canadian parliamentary elections.

India has let it be known that the peace talks with Pakistan will continue as usual, and that the India-Pakistan narrative should be seen divorced from the killing of Osama bin Laden.

In a bid to ensure that there is no undue delay in delivery of services to citizens, the Delhi government on Tuesday notified the “Delhi Right of Citizen to Time-Bound Delivery of Services Act” which was passed by the Assembly in the just-concluded Budget session.

Israel on Tuesday stated that its technology is at the disposal of India in the field of agriculture. Israeli minister of agriculture Orit Noked stated that “agricultural cooperation with Israel can and will propel India to become a superpower in food production and supply”.

A paramilitary trooper was on Monday night killed and five others were injured when Maoist militants launched an ambush in Kerubadi forest areas in Kandhamal district, nearly 350 km from Bhubaneswar, inspector-general of police (operations) Sanjeev Marik said on Tuesday.

At least one Maoist was on Tuesday gunned down in an encounter with security personnel inside Ghumra forest in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district, the police said. The police also claimed to have found tell-tale evidence of injuries to several other rebels in the encounter site.

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday dismissed speculation about the possibility of him entering the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra.
“Till 2013, I am out of electoral politics. No and that too in capital letters,” he said when asked about speculation that he could be the “outsider” taking the Upper House seat vacated by Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.