In yet another package designed to take the wind out of the Congress campaign on Bhatta Parsaul, UP chief minister Mayawati has announced that all those arrested in connection with the May 7 violence will be released and adequate compensation will be paid to those who had suffered loss of property. In a statement released late on

A comparison has begun between Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare in the political circles after the two have virtually shaken the government on the issues of black money and corruption. Their action plan suggest that political parties in power and outside, lack the determination to correct the system.

In a bid to address the feeling of alienation often expressed by the people in Northeast, the UPA government has decided to bring higher judiciary closer to the common man in the region. The government is contemplating to set up three new high courts in the region, aimed at expansion of judicial access for the region and fulfilling the decades old demand.

In an attempt to built pressure on the government for conceding the civil society’s demand to bring the office of the Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India and the other judges under the ambit of the Lokpal, the representatives of the civil society have cited previous commitments given by both NDA government and the UPA-I to this effect and

It seems all is not well within the so-called moderate faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance even after it revoked its earlier decision suspending one of its founding constituents, Jammu and Kashmir Itehad-ul-Muslimeen, over its patron moulvi Abbas Ansari’s holding a meeting with the Centre’s interlocutors in April 2011.

The BJP has announced its support to Baba Ramdev’s ongoing campaign against corruption.
In an informal chat with reporters here on Thursday, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said that “corruption” was a film being produced by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

President Pratibha Devi Patil has rejected the recommendation of the Delhi Lokayukta to withdraw her pleasure in the continuation of city PWD minister Raj Kumar Chouhan in the council of ministers for his alleged involvement in pressuring tax officials who were carrying out raids at a resort in the capital.

In a surprise move which at the least can be described as eating humble pie, the Hurriyat Conference faction led by Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has revoked its earlier decision of suspending Jammu and Kashmir Itehad-ul-Muslimeen, one of the founding constituents of the conglomerate, over its leader’s holding a meeting with the Centre’s interlocutors in April this year.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the Tihar Jail chief after hearing a PIL demanding certain changes in parole rules and other provisions to protect the fundamental rights of under-trial prisoners and convicts lodged in the jail.

A middle-aged couple was shot dead by armed assailants in northeast Delhi’s Harsh Vihar area in the early hours of Wednesday.