The supreme court has called for making the CBI truly independent after its chief confessed to sharing a probe report with the law minister and others. A noble objective indeed, even if it is as difficult as removing poverty. A beginning, however,
The political fraternity is caught in a storm over former additional solicitor general Harin Raval`s letter to attorney general G E vahanvati, which exposed the UPA government`s lies on interference in the CBI`s handling of the Coalgate case. Rava
Already termed as the "least productive", the 15th Lok Sabha may be headed for further trouble with new escalation in the government-opposition stand off. The budget session of the House may move towards an early closure followin
Expressing concern over the prevailing water scarcity situation in Maharashtra, Governor K Sankaranarayanan today assured people that the state government is taking all necessary steps to overcome the situation through short and long term measures
Editor`s note: While the Congress is making an issue of corruption in Karnataka under the BJP ahead of the assembly elections on May 5, with Rahul Gandhi specifically alleging that the saffron party won the polls in 2
In his first press conference after assuming the charge, CBI director Ranjit Sinha seemed to have a premonition of things to come. He candidly admitted that he suffered from the foot-in-mouth disease and therefore would prefer to keep a distance w
The shoe-gate checked inside a Delhi courtroom on Tuesday afternoon after an irate protester hurled one at the judge at Karkardooma court in east Delhi after he acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of all charges in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
On Tuesday, the supreme court criticised the central bureau of investigation for keeping “it in the dark about sharing the probe report with government”. The reference was to the March 12 hearing when additional solicitor general Harin
While prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told reporters that he would personally study the supreme court’s observation on coal blocks allocation scam before taking “whatever action is called for”, leader of opposition in Ra
The bench headed by justice RM Lodha must have been exasperated. Here was the chief of the premier investigating agency of the country, admitting on an affidavit that he had indeed “shared” with political masters a draft of the progres
In a major reshuffle, several officers of Delhi police have been shifted, some of them given postings outside the national capital. Deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Chhaya Sharma, who was posted in south Delhi, has been transferred to M
On a day supreme court blasted the CBI for keeping it in the dark about sharing the coal blocks allocation scam’s status report with the law minister and other bureaucrats, the Congress-led UPA government was left completely isolated in parl
Two of the country’s top law officers obliged the UPA government by lying to supreme court about the CBI’s status report on coal scam, as has become clear from additional solicitor general Harin Raval`s letter to his boss, Goolam Vahan
Hours after the supreme court issued a notice to the central bureau of investigation (CBI) asking it agency to explain why YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy should not be granted bail, a special CBI court on Monday afternoon dismissed the
Soon after issuing a detailed guideline on the effective implementation of section 4 of the RTI Act-2005, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) is setting up a project monitoring unit (PMU) to monitor its compliance from all the central
The government will have to consult people before making a law, if a proposal from the national advisory council (NAC) is implemented. While it will be a revolutionary measure and make democracy meaningful, details of the consultation mechanism ar
That Uttar Pradesh runs on a bit of whim and oodles on fancy of the ruling dispensation is perhaps not a theme open for debate any longer. So days after the state’s textile minister, Shiv Kumar Beria, warned that any police official who does
Goa today launched a Krishi Card, a digital card which would be a gateway for farmers to avail benefits like subsidies and loans given by the state government. Chief minister Manohar Parrikar officially launched this card based on the data
A day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sent what it claims were 10.5 lakh letters from the aam Delhiites to Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit, protesting against the “unfair” hike in water and electricity tariffs in the national capital, we l
The Delhi high court on Monday said "further hearing is required" in the plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who had challenged the trial court order framing charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case related to the killings of
