Sexual abuse of children is an ugly truth, which for long has been brushed under the carpet.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his statement on the appointment of P.J. Thomas as CVC in the Lok Sabha on Monday, said he accepted “full responsibility” for the choice of Mr Thomas and described it as an “error of judgment”.

Disregarding the ongoing tussle between the health and HRD ministries on a single entrance test each for MBBS and postgraduate medical admissions across the country, the Supreme Court on Monday permit

The Union home ministry has written letters to the CBI and state governments concerned asking them whether they would like to hand over all “Hindu terror” cases, including the Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008, the Ajmer Dargah blasts case of 2007 and the 2007 Mecca Masjid blasts case, to the National Investigation Agency.

The DMK appears to be blinking first in the war of nerves against the Congress, responding “positively” to the latter’s request to defer by a day its decision to pull out its ministers from the Union Cabinet. Crisis managers in the Congress are optimistic that the problem will end any time in the next 48 hours.

In an unprecedented verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday opened the window to permitting “mercy killing” of terminally ill patients agonising in hospital for long, with no hope of survival, by laying down comprehensive guidelines to process “passive euthanasia” through a petition in the high court concerned till Parliament passes any law on the issue.

The CISF has begun random checking of luggage at major airports following the bomb attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport which killed at least 35 people. “After the Bureau of Civil Aviation (BCA) issued guidelines, we have begun random checking of passengers at all the airports. At three airports — Lucknow, Ahmedabad and

The government has fixed March 31 as deadline for all telecom operators to submit plans for giving “access” to their services, including popular BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) of Research in Motion (RIM), to security agencies.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) will now audit the land acquisition policy of the Haryana government to examine the alleged irregularities in the acquisition of agricultural land and compensation paid to the farmers. Sources have stated that a CAG team from Delhi has been dispatched to Chandigarh to begin the audit process.

The Centre on Monday told the Delhi high court that it cannot pass an order on the issue on the plea of Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Balwa that he was wrongly linked to the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, as the Supreme Court was seized of the 2G spectrum scam.