A Central information commission order asking the Supreme Court to explain the rationale of one of its rulings was stayed on Monday by the Delhi high court.

Not only in the country, girls outperformed boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 examinations held at foreign centres as well.

The 2G scam accused, DMK MP Kanimozhi, on Saturday woke up to reality in a 15 ft by 10 ft cell of Tihar Jail. Jail officials said she woke up at 5.30 am, had morning tea and breakfast after a roll call with fellow inmates and then went out for a walk with a constable provided for her security on the prison premises.

Amid suggestions pouring in from all sides on the proposed Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, the Union rural development ministry officials are deliberating to invoke food security concerns as central theme for the proposed land legislation. The officials are seeking to incorporate success stories of the Forest Conservation Act to ensure that the size of the irrigated agricultural land does not shrink to jeopardise food security.

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has asked the Prime Minister to dissolve the National Commission for Women, which, they alleged, was working like a frontal organisation of the Congress.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has demanded an immediate CBI inquiry into the Bhatta Parsaul firing incident in Greater Noida on May 7. Acting NCW chairperson Yasmin Abrar alleged that grave atrocities like rape and murders were committed in the two villages by the Uttar Pradesh police.

Even as the Bhatta Parsaul land acquisition controversy refuses to die down, the Supreme Court has laid down guidelines for fixing of the compensation to the farmers preferably on the basis of hard evidence about the market value of their land rather than the “guesstimated” price.

The Congress-led UPA government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will step into the third year of its second term on Sunday. The success of the two-year rule of the UPA could be gauged from the fact the Congress wrested back Kerala from the Left, retained power in Assam and virtually became victorious in West Bengal in the recently concluded Assembly elections to the four states.

With the BJP calling the Karnataka governor Mr H.R. Bhardwaj a “history-sheeter” and therefore his recall, and the Congress unit of Karnataka demanding the dismissal of the Yeddyurappa-led BJP government in accordance with the recommendation of the governor, the crisis seems to have reached a point of no return.

The Centre is mulling a rejig of governors across states, an exercise that may see H.R. Bhardwaj moving out of the Karnataka Raj Bhavan.
Government sources said any new appointments or transfers of governors are likely in the first week of June, about a month after the UPA-II government completes two years in office.