The allegations against UPA government by former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah in the Supreme Court that he was “framed” in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case to “destabilise” the Modi government by using the CBI for this purpose seems to have been taken very seriously by the Centre as it pressed the services of three of its top law officers to take note of the case.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the petition of former BJP president Bangaru Laxman for quashing of the case related to bribe “on camera” allegedly linked to “fictitious” defence deals enacted by Thelka publication in a sting operation during the NDA regime to expose corruption in defence purchases.

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has decided to hold the next central committee meet in Kolkata from December 17 to 19 to ensure the presence of former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar-jee. Shell shocked by the Left Front’s humiliating exit from power and the decimation of the CPI(M) in Bengal, Mr Bhatt-acharjee has persistently skipped central committee and

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who embarked on his five-day mass contact programme on Tuesday reiterated that the UP government had failed to deliver the sops announced by the Centre and the irregularities in the MGNREGA and NHRM were enough proof about the failures of the government.

After creating a storm over demand for CBI probe into the irregularities in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Uttar Pradesh, Union minister of rural development Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that the Centre has released another `1,200 crores for the poll-

For grant of interim maintenance, a woman cannot be made to wait for the outcome of a trial to prove her allegations against her husband and starve till then, a Delhi court has said.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the CEOs of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea asked the government to return the money they had bid for the third-generation (3G) spectrum with interest if they are not allowed to enter intra-circle roaming for these services.

The home ministry is likely to give a formal approval to the Delhi government’s long-pending proposal for trifurcation of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) as early as Wednesday.

In a sudden development on Tuesday, the trial in the 2G spectrum scam case was relocated from the Patiala House courts to the high-security Tihar Jail following a Delhi high court order.

Two youth were arrested by south Delhi police for allegedly raping a 30-year-old woman in their car in Mehrauli area on the night of November 18. The victim had alleged that the duo had abducted her from near Andheri Mod and raped her in their Maruti Alto car. Later, they dumped her at an isolated place in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan.