One of India’s most influential sports administrators, MP from Pune Suresh Kalmadi, who once flew in the air, has now been grounded. The former Air Force pilot-turned politician, who once flew supersonic jets while serving the country and had won many laurels, is all set to be confined to the dingy cells of Tihar jail.

Pushing ahead with the controversial Jaitapur atomic power plant, government on Tuesday said it has decided to have a stand-alone safety system in the designs of each reactors, two of which are expected to be operational by 2019 and announced a bill would be brought to create an autonomous nuclear regulatory body.

The inclusion of the name of his daughter Kanimozhi in the spectrum case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has jolted chief minister M. Karunanidhi and shocked his DMK party when, barely a fortnight from now, another critical event is readying to unfold: the result of the state Assembly election in which archrival Ms Jayalalithaa is stoutly challenging his bid to return to power.

In the wake of comments by WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange about black money stashed abroad by Indians, BJP on Tuesday alleged the UPA government was not making any effort to bring it back despite being pulled up by the Supreme Court.

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.