In the last phase of the six-phased Assembly elections in West Bengal, 14 constituencies in the Maoist-infested areas in West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura will go to polls on Tuesday under unprecedented security arrangements. In these 14 constituencies, 26,57,434 voters will decide the fate of 97 candidates, including ministers like Susanta Ghosh, Rabilal Maitra and Debalina Hembram and PCPA leader Chhatradhar Mahato, who is close to the CPI(Maoist) and is now in jail custody.

BJP leader Rajnath Singh and SP leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Mohan Singh were detained by the police along with their supporters when they tried to proceed towards Greater Noida where prohibitory orders are in force since Saturday’s violence.

The BJP top brass has asked its chief ministers to go in for social audit as well as cautioned them to keep a close eye on issues related to corruption.
A two-day conclave of chief ministers of BJP-ruled states began in the capital on Monday.

After converting a petition filed by the pilots’ union into a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench comprising Justices Vikramajit Sen and Siddharth Mridul of the Delhi high court on Monday decided to look into the problems faced by Air India which led to a strike by its pilots recently saying it is a matter of public interest which the nation wants to know.

Ms Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi, may not appear personally before the ED, which is also probing 2G spectrum scam, on May 13. The DMK Rajya Sabha MP, Ms Kanimozhi, may send her representative or lawyer to the ED in view of her regular presence required before a special CBI court, hearing the 2G scam case.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the Madras high court order restraining sacked Tamil Nadu Bar Council chairman R.K. Chandramohan from functioning even as a member of the body after his re-election recently.

Justice Ajit Bharihoke of the Delhi high court on Monday reserved its order on the bail pleas of five corporate bigwigs, allegedly involved in the 2G spectrum scam case, after the Central Bureau of Investigation’s special public prosecutor U.U. Lalit, along with the counsel for defence concluded their arguments in the case.

The Supreme Court, in another ruling on honour killings, took a tough stance, saying the prosecution should seek the death penalty for those indulging in such “barbaric and feudal” practices in a country governed by the rule of law.

When Dr Manmohan Singh lands in Addis Ababa for the second India Africa Forum Summit that begins in two weeks in the Ethiopian capital, three years after the first tentative meet in Delhi, the marked difference between India’s “soft power” and China’s headlong rush into becoming the continent’s go-to country for infrastructure is

While the UP police in Greater Noida detained 90 protesters on Monday, violent protests by farmers against forcible land acquisition continued for yet another day.
Police officers have so far claimed that the protesters detained Monday in Greater Noida have not been declared arrested. “We are questioning the detained people in