Union home secretary R.K. Singh on Monday did not rule out the possibility of more people still lying trapped in the debris of collapsed houses since rescue teams have not been able to reach all villages. “So we can not really rule out right now whether any more persons are dead. But, since some time has already elapsed, I think the possibility of the toll increasing is thin, but you can’t say about a hilly area, you can’t say about an area which has far-flung villages,” he said.

Crumbling in the face of charges of land irregularities against him, the Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Shivaraj Patil, on Monday resigned 45 days

after he assumed the office of the State ombudsman. He is the first Lokayukta in the state to demit office in such a short span of time and also

The Centre is hoping that the proposed Teesta Waters Treaty with Bangladesh may still happen once the “small technical misunderstanding” between it and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is sorted out. The proposed treaty, which had been billed as one of the high-points of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent Dhaka visit, could not be signed leading to considerable disappointment on both sides.

Prime Minister Manm-ohan Singh told Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalaithaa over the telephone Monday eve-ning he would depute Union minister V.

Narayanasamy to Koodankulam to hold talks with the protesters over their objectio-ns to the nuclear power plant coming up there.

Former minister B. Sreeramulu called off his fast for supply of iron ore to sponge iron manufacturing plants in the district after chief minister

D.V. Sadananda Gowda assured him on Monday that the problem would be resolved and invited him for talks on the issue .

Four people, including three of a same family and one school student, died and over half-a-dozen people were injured in separate incidents of road

mishaps in the capital.

CBI sleuths on Monday raided homes of three key alleged frontmen of former minister Janardhan Reddy who have been reportedly absconding since his

arrest for illegal mining on September 5.

Two women have been arrested with drugs worth lakhs of rupees by the Delhi police in Sultanpuri area in Outer Delhi.
The police has recovered smack and `3 lakh cash.

With former minister, Gali Janardhan Reddy, proving a tough nut to crack, the CBI now plans to subject him to a polygraph and narco analysis test
with the permission of the special court in Hyderabad.

Justice Ajit Bharihoke of the Delhi high court on Monday slated January 11 next year to hear former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala’s plea for quashing First Information Report (FIR) registered against him allegedly for owning assets exceeding his legal income.