BJP chief Rajnath Singh, had who had recently drawn flak for blaming the English for India’s social and cultural ills, on Monday said India’s education system was a British legacy aimed at “subjugating Indian minds” that had led to “cultural pollution.”

In a glaring example of political patronage of crime and caste, a sitting JD(U) MP from Bihar has formally sought police help for a trader eluding arrest after being accused of cheating investors of nearly `2 crores. The MP wants his protection because both he and the MP belong to the same caste.

The Jodhpur police has dispatched two teams to Gujarat and Madhya Pardesh to investigate the sexual assault case against controversial godman Asaram Bapu. “One team is in Chhindwara while another is in Ahmadabad,” said deputy commissioner of police, Jodhpur, Ajaypal Lamba.

Thousands of people in Allahabad district have been forced to leave their homes and move to safer places after the Ganga and Yamuna began swelling alarmingly on Sunday.

As the police net closes in on controversial godman Asaram Bapu in the case of sexual assault involving a 16-year-old girl in a Jodhpur ashram, the Union home ministry has asked the governments of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi to share the facts of the case.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slammed the Uttarakhand government and the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for their failure to provide a list of illegal construction along the river banks and other ecologically-sensitive sites.

The much anticipated three-day visit of Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of oil-rich South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, to India which was to begin on Monday has been postponed.

Assam CM Tarun Gogoi here on Monday said that Assam Women Commission should take cognisance to the derogatory remarks of political leaders against the women IPS officers.

Even as Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde assured the members of expeditious trial, the Lok Sabha on Monday expresses outrage over the brutal gangrape of a young photo-journalist in Mumbai with many members demanding death for the culprits.

The Versova police are on the lookout for Padma Shri award-winning actor Om Puri, who is said to be “untraceable” after allegedly assaulting his wife after an argument between the two over maintenance of their flat in Seven Bungalows in Andheri (West) last week.