After Parliament recently passed the Land Acquisition, Rehabili-tation and Resettlement Bill, rural development minister Jairam Rame-sh said if implemented well, the new law would also defeat Maoist insurgency in India.

Ramesh Thakur (name changed) was 17 years 6 months old when he was jailed on murder charges in 2003, the Bombay high court confirmed recently. Though granted bail in 2009 after the HC directed the sessions court to conduct an inquiry and the latter found that he was a “juvenile in conflict with law”, he had already spent six years in jail.

World number one Novak Djokovic ripped the US Open for their scheduling of his matches on Saturday and made it clear that he is no fan of the new Monday final programme debuting this year.

The Trinamul Congress has snubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s overture and ruled out any alliance with the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Party MP and spokesperson Derek O’Brien said Sunday that Trinamul will go it alone in the polls.

The Bombay high court recently ruled that under the Right To Information (RTI) Act, disclosure of personal information with respect to service record, Income-Tax returns and assets of an individual is illegal — unless it is necessary in larger public interest.

Working hard on his form and fitness to prepare for the hectic international schedule, India pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar said he was not worried about losing pace and focused on improving his line and length.

Wrestling completed an unprecedented Olympic comeback on Sunday, recl-aiming its spot in the 2020 Tokyo Games after beating bids from rivals squash and baseball/softball in an International Olympic Committee vote.

As the Central government desperately plans measures to curb fuel consumption to lighten the country’s import bill and shore up the rupee, a bureaucrat in Bihar who started bicycling to and from office to conserve fuel has turned into an inspiring example of for an increasing number of government employees and common citizens.

On a day when Arjun Tendulkar played his debut game in the prestigious Dr HD Kanga League — one of the oldest tournaments played on uncovered tracks — father Sachin requested media not to put his son under the microscope.

Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics on Saturday, beating Istanbul in a head-to-head vote after Japanese PM Shinzo Abe made a charismatic plea to the International Olympic Committee and promised Japan’s crippled Fukush-ima nuclear plant was “under control”.