The Central Bureau of Investigation has opposed the bail application of sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi and submitted before a Special CBI court that his conduct has tarnished the image of the country. Kalmadi was arrested by the CBI along with OC joint director general (Sport)

The south district police claimed to have gained several leads into the gruesome murder of engineering student Shobhit Modi with the investigators deciding to “re-question” at least nine suspects.

A day after the outlawed CPI (Maoist) members gunned down five people at a wedding ceremony in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, the rival People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) members shot dead four brothers in cold blood in a swift retaliation late on Sunday night.

The CBI conducted searches at more than ten places in Delhi in connection with irregularities committed in the construction of Barapulla elevated road project, which was constructed for the Commonwealth Games.

Upping the ante on the issue of land acquisition in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here and complained to him about alleged “rape” of women and “murder” of farmers in the Mayawati-ruled state but the BSP denied the charges. The Congress demanded a judicial inquiry saying “grave allegations” have been made but BSP dismissed the charges as “baseless”.

A minor scuffle between two groups in southwest Delhi’s Bindapur area turned into a violent clash between two communities and left dozens injured on Sunday evening.
The police said the incident took place in a JJ cluster at Bindapur at around 10 pm on Sunday.

For the second time in less than 72 hours, the Cabinet on Monday requested the governor to convene the session of the state legislature — this time from June 2. The BJP government’s earlier request for convening the session from May 16 did not receive a favourable response from the governor, who has instead reportedly recommended President’s rule in the state.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday gave given green signal for allotment of flats to members of disputed cooperative group housing societies, who have been waiting to shift to their flats for the last so many years.

Nothing has been going their way even since the rebel BJP legislators decided to withdraw support to chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in October last year. Not even the Supreme Court verdict has helped them emerge from the mess they have landed in after the coup attempt pioneered by JD(S) state president H.D. Kumaraswamy in

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday lifted the `50,000 cap on property registration fee which will now be equivalent to one per cent of the value. The move makes buying a property costlier as the city government had almost doubled the circle rates in various localities.