The construction delays across the 11 venues for the Commonwealth Games is keeping organisers on tenterhooks. Although most of the venues have been inaugurated, Commonwealth Games Federation’s chief executive officer Mike Hooper feels there is still some way to go before they can be ‘Games-ready’.

Amidst strong opposition from the African bloc, John Howard’s ambition of becoming ICC president got a boost with president-elect Sharad Pawar backing the process of his nomination.

The Canadian high commission’s move to deny visas has prompted New Delhi to think of retaliatory action. The home ministry on Thursday warned that India would consider retaliatory measures if Canada does not respond to its request of taking conciliatory steps in this regard.

There appears to be a twist to the Hafiz Saeed tale, which has so far been about India supplying the needed proof to nail his role as a prime mover in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, but Pakistan treating this as “literature”, rather than “evidence” — to quote the colourful language of Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir — and refusing to put him away on that basis.

The Armed Forces Tribunal has severely indicted the former head of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt. Gen. Kishan Pal (Retd), for his biased annual confidential report in which he denied due credit for the Kargil operations to the then head of the 70 Infantry Brigade, Brig. Devinder Singh (Retd), and ordered that it be expunged.

The Central Information Commission on Thursday held that the relative assessment with peers which becomes the basis of promotion for a government employee should be disclosed under the RTI Act.

In an important jugement on the “secrecy” of competitive exams held by the statutory bodies such as UPSC and the state public service commissions for the appointment in government jobs, the Supreme Court has held that courts have no power to order revaluation of answer sheets of candidates appearing in such competitions.

The CBI, which is investigating Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, is understood to have ascertained the identity of the woman, whose vaginal swab was allegedly swapped with that of the deceased teenager.

Under the National Mission for Delivery of Justice and Legal Reforms, aimed at reducing the number of undertrials in the country’s jails, more than 92,000 undertrials have been either discharged or granted bail from custody till April 30.

A petty officer of the Indian Navy has been arrested by the Delhi police’s special cell on charges of spying.
Police officials said the accused, identified as Chand Kumar Prasad, was held at the New Delhi Railway Station by a team of special cell officials on Wednesday evening a