CBI chargesheet likely on CWG tally system
The CBI, probing alleged irregularities committed in awarding contracts related to the CWG, is likely to file chargesheet related to the result update system of the games on May 25. This will be CBI’s first chargesheet related to the agency’ probe into the CWG cases.
Farmer’s daughter first Muslim woman from J&K to crack IAS
Failing twice to clear the IAS examination did not deter Ovessa Iqbal from trying again to break into the coveted civil services as she felt it was the only way she could change the lives of people of her state Jammu and Kashmir.
Mayawati transfers two officers over Rahul visit
Heads have begun rolling in Uttar Pradesh following the “mishandling” of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Greater Noida on May 11.
The CM, on Saturday, transferred ADG NCR Gurbachan Lal and SSP Greater Noida S.N. Singh and replaced them with K.L. Meena and Jyoti Narain respectively. Though
SC notice to government on wage board for scribes
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Union government on a petition challenging the recommendations of Majithia Wage Board for journalists and non-journalists, without granting any injunction.
Cong readies for big battle with BSP
With focus now shifting to Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly polls are due in 2012, the Congress is literally taking the battle to the home turf of chief minister Mayawati.
All-India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday told reporters that plans are afoot for a party rally at village Badalpur, native place of the BSP
BKU leader Mahendra Singh Tikait dead
Mahendra Singh Tikait, a farmer leader from prosperous western Uttar Pradesh who spearheaded many a struggle uniting peasants in North India, died on Sunday due to bone cancer.
DMK gets praise from SC on PDS
Though it might have come a bit too late but the Supreme Court in its order on food security for poor on Saturday lavished praise on the outgoing DMK-led government in Tamil Nadu for running the best public distribution system in the country. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari not only praised the Tamil Nadu government but asked the Centre to emulate the system evolved by it and make the same applicable in other states.
SC rejects DMK supporter’s plea for Kanimozhi
The Special CBI court on Saturday rejected the plea of a DMK supporter from Tamil Nadu that the bail application of party MP Kanimozhi be either referred to the Delhi high court or to the Supreme Court.
Kalaignar TV decided to return cash after raids
The CBI probe into the 2G Spectrum scam has revealed that Chennai-based Kalaignar TV had decided to return `200 crores to Cineyug Films Pvt. Ltd a day after the agency carried out nation-wide searches in connection with the irregularities committed in awarding Unified Access Service (UAS) licences.
Court defers order on Kani bail to May 20
A day after the DMK was defeated in the Tamil Nadu state Assembly elections, a Special CBI Court in Delhi on Saturday deferred the pronouncement of its order on the bail application of Ms Kanimozhi, daughter of the (DMK) party president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, citing “paucity of time” as the reason for adjourning the order.