Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday said she was not opposed to a CBI probe into the death of a girl whose body was found hanging in a police compound, but feared the case “may be botched up” by the central agency.

Putting to rest speculation about China diverting the Brahmaputra waters away from India, minister of external affairs S.M. Krishna has said that the dam at Zangmu in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo (as the Brahmaputra is called in Tibet) is a run of the river hydro-electric project, which does not store water and will not adversely impact the downstream areas in India.

Facing opposition flak, UP chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday said her government has no objection to a CBI inquiry into the Lakhimpur teenaged girl’s murder case if the victim’s family wanted it.

The Congress has demanded a CBI probe into the Lakhimpur rape and murder case while the Samajwadi Party has asked the governor to convene a special session of the state Assembly.

Expressing “deep concern” that no headway has been made in the probe into the killing of journalist J. Dey, BJP on Wednesday demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI for an “unbiased” investigation.

Yoga guru Ramdev was on Wednesday discharged from a city hospital after which he said he would continue his campaign for return of black money stashed away abroad.

Reacting to Delhi University’s Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) announcing a 100 per cent cut-off list for non-commerce students, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said it was an attempt to keep the science students away.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered setting up of a committee under the state chief secretary to go into the controversy related to the introduction of “uniform system of education” for all the schools in Tamil Nadu. The controversy had arisen due to certain amendments introduced by the new Jayalalithaa government in the law passed by the previous DMK-led government to implement the uniform education system.

After three years of campaign by animal rights group Peta, Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has made significant improvements in the care and disposal of animals at its facility, an official said on Wednesday.

Charting a somewhat contrary course to his friends in the BJP, Punjab’s chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, on Tuesday, supported the Congress line on excluding the Prime Minister from the ambit of the proposed Lokpal Bill.