Activists laid siege to the capital’s permanent protest corner, Jantar Mantar, as Anna Hazare began his fast-unto-death along with his supporters on Tuesday. As the day progressed, the supporters and activists exhibited strong determination to take the fight to weed out corruption to its logical conclusion. The presence of social activist

After over 100 people fell sick following consumption of food made of “kuttu atta” in the east Delhi area, the city government on Tuesday stated that it would enforce a stringent law providing for maximum punishment of life imprisonment and a penalty of up to `10 lakh for those involved in adulteration of food items.

The Delhi police has invoked the stringent MCOCA against a woman pimp, who was allegedly involved in a number of criminal cases.
The accused, Sonu Panjaban, 30, who was arrested from south Delhi’s Mehrauali on April 1, is involved in a number of cases including a murder in Jhajjar in

A large number of people have been hospitalised across the city after eating adulterated flour (kuttu ka atta) during Navratri. The patients had common complaints, including stomach ache, nausea, diarrhoea and fever. Patients came in large numbers to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital and Jagpravesh Hospital.

After a tense couple of days, Sri Satya Sai Baba showed signs of improvement but continued to be on life support systems. “Baba is responding to queries. But due to the ventilator, he could not speak,” said Dr A.N. Safaya, director of Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in a video bulletin released to the media on Tuesday evening.

The Supreme Court has referred to the Chief Justice of India 10 important questions for review of the existing the collegium system on appointment of the top court and high court judges to be considered by a larger Constitution bench while the government has supported the move.

Communist Party of India (CPI) on Tuesday snubbed the UPA government at the Centre and the ruling BJD in Orissa saying that both the establishments were busy in addressing the interests of the capitalists.

Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform (CJAR) has urged the President and the Prime Minister to make a reference to the Supreme Court for inquiry into several acts of misbehaviour of Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, chairman of National Human Rights Commission and ex-Chief Justice of India.

Call it a victory of the Right to Information movement. After slapping a stern no on all efforts to make him list his assets, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, former Chief Justice of India and chairman of National Human Rights Commission, on Tuesday agreed to reveal them all before an income-tax appellate authority.

At least half a dozen Maharashtra ministers have had to resign because of Mr Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption over the past few years while senior political leaders and bureaucrats are extra cautious about their image ever since the former soldier has taken up the cause against corruption.