The Centre is likely to cancel the controversial deal Isro’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation had signed with a private firm for utilising scarce S-band spectrum following a meeting of the Union Cabinet next week.

In a horrifying incident, a teenaged girl has received critical injuries after she was allegedly raped and pushed off the roof of a quarter inside the Fort William by an Indian Army jawan. The traumatised 16-year-old girl is the daughter of a mechanic at the Eastern Command.

Despite persistent pressure from the Supreme Court for concrete information about the black money stashed in Swiss banks and other tax heavens, the government affidavit on Wednesday revealed nothing but raised doubt about the figure quoted about the total volume of illegal money deposited by Indians abroad.

The recent developments in Deoband following newly-elected vice-chancellor Ghulam Moha-mmed Vastanvi’s praise of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi have now had a fall-out in distant Assam. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JuH) faction led by Maulana Arshad Madani — who lost the race for the post of Deoband VC to Mr Vastanvi — on Tuesday decided to dissolve the Assam unit of the Jamiat. The Assam unit is headed by none other than Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) leader and a powerful player in the Deoband battle for supremacy, Badruddin Ajmal who is also a Vastanvi backer.

The Centre is planning a major crack down on individuals involved in major scams and corruption cases.
Speculation is rife that the former Prasar Bharati CEO, B.S. Lalli, former CWG Organising Committee chairman, Suresh Kalmadi and some other top politicians, involved in scams could be arrested.

Buoyed by the success of its measures in Bihar while conducting the Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked the income-tax department to keep a tab on the flow of money in order to curb the use of black money in the run-up to the Assembly polls in the states of Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, West Bengal and Kerala.

In the backdrop of a Supreme Court judge questioning the continuance of Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh in the Union Cabinet, the Congress on Wednesday said every institution must respect the doctrine of separation of power enshrined in the Constitution.

With enumerators seeking information about President Pratibha Patil, the second phase of Census 2011 began on Wednesday.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said the exercise began when a woman enumerator went to Rashtrapati Bhavan and collected information for a questionnaire from

Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati on Wednesday categorically stated that the Justice Srikrishna Committee report was not amenable to judicial review.
The country’s top law officer told Justice L. Narasimha Reddy that the committee was not constituted under the Commission of Inquiries Act, and there was no scope to seek judicial review of its report. He said that the formation of a new state is a political decision and “it is not in the purview of the court”.

A local court in Ajmer has granted permission to the CBI for interrogation of terror suspects Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma in the Malegaon blast case. The court has passed this order on Tuesday while hearing a petition filed by the CBI, which sought permission.