There was no immediate relief on Monday to Reddy brothers’ Obulapuram Mining Company from the Supreme Court a plea to allow it to sell 2.5 lakh tonnees of iron ore extracted from three mines in Andhra Pradesh for payment of income-tax arrears worth `149 crores raised on the mining operations since 2008.

India was hoping for “26/11 closure” from Pakistan just as the killing of Osama bin Laden brought to a close America’s decade-long hunt for the Al Qaeda chieftain who masterminded the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre’s twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

The Supreme Court on Monday took cognisance of former Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh’s petition on “cash-for-vote” scam and issued notices to the Centre and Delhi police seeking a status report on the FIR registered after the 2008 confidence vote by the Manmohan Singh government and progress of investigation made so far.

A man sentenced to three days in jail for drunken driving has been ordered by a city court to instead perform community service at a local temple once a week for two months, saying that a prison term will be an “indelible blot” on his career.

The anxiety churning in 19-year-old Mohan Kumar Ram, a dalit student of B.Sc. first year, over the acutely dismal electricity scenario in Saran district is more refined than in Mohammad Roushan, 45, who runs a small tent-house business. But they all feel the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme (RGRES) has drastically failed to deliver in power-starved Bihar.

Though the ruling BSP and SP are arch rivals in UP, the two parties are in a similar position being cornered by the BJP for their support to the UPA coalition partners in PAC on the 2G draft report. Senior leaders of the two parties concede that they might have to pay a political price for their key role in the PAC but officially the two parties are making attempts to wriggle out of the issue.

Maintaining that early resolution of high profile cases being currently handled by the CBI constituted a “litmus test” for the agency, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called upon the officials of the India’s premier investigating agency to put their heads down and avoid media glare ensuring logical conclusion of the cases.

Only recently, the government was mauled in the Supreme Court on the issue of the appointment of the CVC as it was in flagrant violation of the letter of the law and its spirit. The Prime Minister had to express regrets in Parliament. A similar moment could conceivably approach if the Manmohan Singh dispensation does not exert due

A 75-year-old man was killed and four persons, including two policemen, were injured in clashes between two groups of Kashmiri Muslims which started from a place of worship at Kanihama on the peripheries of Srinagar on Friday. The police has arrested 16 persons on charge of fuelling a law and order situation whereas dozens of police and CRPF personnel have been deployed in the area to prevent further violence.

Senior state Bharatiya Janata Party leader Meghraj Jain will be the party nominee for bypolls to fill the Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh which fell vacant on the demise of late Congress leader Arjun Singh.