Fasting yoga guru Baba Ramdev continued to get politically isolated with RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav describing him as a “trainer not a yogi.” Earlier, the DMK too had slammed the hi-flying yoga guru while the AIADMK has maintained a stoic silence over his so-called anti-corruption crusade.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev broke his fast here on Sunday, nine days after he went on with his fast against corruption, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said.

A Delhi district consumer forum has slapped a fine of `25,000 on the city’s power distribution firm, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, for raising an inflated electricity bill of `1.17 lakh against an user and lodging a false power theft case against him.

The slow process of appointing the judges of high judiciary has badly affected the functioning of several high courts with the vacancy level in some of them going up to 45 per cent and country’s biggest high court at Allahabad is working almost with one-third of the sanctioned strength of judges.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev was rushed to a hospital in Dehra Dun after his health deteriorated on Friday, the seventh day of his fast. The local administration’s move to hospitalise Ramdev was taken at the direction of Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal.

Accusing the Congress-led UPA government of adopting a “cheap tactic” by diverting people’s attention from the “burning issue” of corruption, the RSS on Friday said the government has launched a “vicious campaign” against it with regard to Baba Ramdev’s anti-corruption campaign. Meanwhile, the BJP demanded that the

The Congress party, feeling the heat on the issue of corruption, is gearing up to launch a counteroffensive against the BJP and the Sangh Parivar for “denigrating democratic institutions”. It has decided to hold public meetings on this issue across the country before the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins next month.

In their second major attack on security personnel in Chhattisgarh in the past 24 hours, Maoists killed 10 policemen by blowing up their anti-landmine vehicle at Gitam under Katekalyan police station in the insurgency-hit Dantewada district early on Friday morning, the police said.

The government on Friday expressed disappointment at Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana’s acquittal by a US court on charges of plotting the Mumbai carnage. Sources said the government will soon take a decision on filing a chargesheet against Rana and Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayeeba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley in an Indian court.

Against the backdrop of the Tamil Nadu Assembly passing a resolution demanding imposition of economic sanctions against Colombo, national security adviser Shivhankar Menon on Friday held talks with Sri Lankan foreign minister G.L. Peiris on the entire gamut of bilateral ties.