The CBI has alleged that DMK MP Kanimozhi was an "active brain" behind the operation of Kalaignar TV and actively pursued with intermediaries and her party the reappointment of 2G scam accused A. Raja as telecom minister.

In a move to strengthen its support base among backward castes, women and minorities ahead of the local body elections next year, the Maharashtra Congress is celebrating a year-long Samajik Samata Varsha (social equality year) from April 14, the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.

Harvard scholar Lobsang Sangay was on Wednesday elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile and would take over the political duties relinquished by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Amidst opposition demand for his removal, Puducherry Lt governor Iqbal Singh on Wednesday met Union home minister P. Chidambaram and apprised him of his questioning by Enforcement Directorate over his recommendation for issuing a passport to alleged tax evader Hasan Ali Khan.

Vikas Yadav, serving life term along with his cousin Vishal Yadav, for killing MBA graduate Nitish Katara in February 2002, was on Tuesday granted "custodial parole" by the Delhi high court to attend his younger brother's marriage ceremony on April 29.

Taking note of strong arguments by the counsel for city dentist couple Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar accusing CBI of “planting” stories in media about their “involvement” in the murder of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help, the apex court agreed to examine the validity of the trial court over converting the agency’s closure report into the chargesheet against them.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the backdrop of growing concern over the opposition by locals to the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project.

After the CBI arrested former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman, Suresh Kalmadi, the CWG scam has returned to haunt the Delhi government. The Shunglu Committee Panel probe has raised fingers at the role of Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and Lt-Governor Tejinder Khanna in the Games. So far, the Shunglu Panel

A probe by the government railway police has found loopholes in the version given by athlete Arunima Sinha that she lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers in Bareilly.

Facing tremendous pressure from the Supreme Court for setting up of a special investigating team to unearth the black money case and make it directly answerable to the top court, the Centre instead created a two-tier “multi-disciplinary” mechanism for better coordination between different agencies of the government to go into various aspects of the unaccounted money stashed in foreign banks by Indians.