CBI on Wednesday filed its chargesheet against seven persons, including Andhra Pradesh home secretary and senior IAS officer B.P. Acharya, and five companies in the case relating to alleged irregularities in land transfer and sale of villas and apartments in an upscale township in Hyderabad.

In a significant development, the Union home ministry has banned the Garo National Liberation Army, a terrorist outfit of Garo Hills in Meghalaya, and declared it a terrorist outfit. The formal notification, which was sent to the state government on Wednesday, said that the Central government believes that the GNLA is involved in terrorism, therefore, exercising the powers conferred under the Section 35 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the Central government has declared its formations and frontal organisation as terrorist organisation. The GNLA is the 36th separatist outfit in the country which has been banned by the home ministry.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday chose to take a dig at those who protested over Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses, having been barred from speaking at the recently held Jaipur literary festival yet forced the Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune to cancel a seminar on Kashmir.

An amalgam of Kashmiri Sikhs on Tuesday demanded a re-investigation into the March 2000 massacre of 36 members of the minority community in the village of Chattisinghpora outside the southern town of Anantnag, the gory incident blamed on separatist militants by the authorities.

The ATS officers, in a joint operation with the Intelligence Bureau, on Monday, made the fourth arrest in the July 13 triple blasts case — a hawala operator from New Delhi. He is supposed to have handed over `10 lakhs used for the blasts to Yasin Bhatkal.

Maoists are planning to hold their crucial 10th congress in the rebel-controlled Abujhmad, a 6,000-sq-km densely forested region extending from south Bastar in Chhattisgarh to Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, reports received by the state police said here on Tuesday.

A 22-year-old youth from Assam, Abhijit Baruah, on Tuesday staked claim for entry into the Guinness Book of World Records by completing a historic barefoot run for about 153 km within 24 hours.

Former Isro chief Madhavan Nair tells B.R. Srikanth he will release a ‘white paper’ on the Antrix-Devas deal to counter the government’s charges and action against him and three former Isro colleagues.

Behind the veil of secrecy that obfuscates the Indian government’s unprecedented action against a celebrated space scientist, Gopalan Madhavan Nair, and his former colleagues, are a plethora of questions that beg answers. The main question is this: Is there a scam at all in the allotment of satellite transponder capacity — not spectrum, as is being commonly misinterpreted and misunderstood to equate it to the 2G telecom scam — by ISRO’s commercial arm, Antrix Corporation, to a private company, Devas Multimedia Pvt Ltd? Or, are Dr Nair and the others being hung out to dry in a hurry over a perfectly legitimate affair, admittedly suffering from procedural lapses, because the UPA-II, already reeling under a series of scams, does not want to be hit by allegations of inaction on yet another one?

For the first time in Rajasthan, the district administration has slapped a fine on its own officials, including a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), for delay in delivering things to a farmer in Bikaner district under the Rajasthan Public Services Guarantee Act (RPSGA).