The Union sports ministry is mulling sacking Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi if the top body of Indian sports fails to remove him from the post. Mr Kalmadi was on Monday arrested by the CBI on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in connection with awarding some Games contracts. Sports minister Ajay

The disciplinary action committee of the Congress on Monday suspended Suresh Kalmadi, the sitting Lok Sabha member, from the party a few hours after he was arrested by the CBI in connection with irregularities in the Commonwealth Games projects.

The Congress is not unduly worried about whether or not the DMK members remain in the Union Cabinet in the wake of the recent developments in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

Electorate on Monday turned out in droves to cast votes for the fourth phase of Panchayat polls in Jammu Kashmir which recorded over 80 per cent polling.
The exercise to elect 346 sarpanchs and 2471 panchs in 12 blocks of the state passed off peacefully.

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.