A veteran journalist, Jyotirmoy Dey (57), editor (crime and investigations) at the tabloid Mid-Day, was shot dead near his residence in Powai by four unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants on Saturday afternoon.

In three separate incidents three bodies have been found in the city on Saturday. Body of a four-year-old girl was found near railway tracks in South Delhi’s Sriniwaspuri area. The body was unclad and also had injury marks. A senior police official said that there are evidences of an attempt of sexual attack.

A Delhi district consumer forum has slapped a fine of `25,000 on the city’s power distribution firm, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, for raising an inflated electricity bill of `1.17 lakh against an user and lodging a false power theft case against him.

Gurmeet Singh, a lookalike of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with the cast members of Act 498A — The Wedding Gift at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on Saturday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

The slow process of appointing the judges of high judiciary has badly affected the functioning of several high courts with the vacancy level in some of them going up to 45 per cent and country’s biggest high court at Allahabad is working almost with one-third of the sanctioned strength of judges.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev was rushed to a hospital in Dehra Dun after his health deteriorated on Friday, the seventh day of his fast. The local administration’s move to hospitalise Ramdev was taken at the direction of Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Friday slammed the leaders of civil society groups Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev for creating an impression that they are the only ones in this country who are concerned over corruption.

The Congress party, feeling the heat on the issue of corruption, is gearing up to launch a counteroffensive against the BJP and the Sangh Parivar for “denigrating democratic institutions”. It has decided to hold public meetings on this issue across the country before the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins next month.

In an election-bound state like Uttar Pradesh, Baba Ramdev is fast turning into a tool for politics.
Parties that are making a bid for secular politics are gunning for the yoga guru while those who claim to be rooting for “nationalism” are supporting him. Some are playing it safe while others are caught in a vortex of confusion.

The government on Friday expressed disappointment at Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana’s acquittal by a US court on charges of plotting the Mumbai carnage. Sources said the government will soon take a decision on filing a chargesheet against Rana and Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayeeba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley in an Indian court.