After a PIL was filed before the Bombay high court by a social activist seeking an inquiry by the charity commissioner against the Bhujbal Knowledge City in Nashik, chairman of Mumbai Education Trust (MET) run by PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal, sought an independent audit of the institute for allegedly defrauding students into paying excess fees worth `8 crore in just two years since 2010.

After a brief three days’ respite, the hills are again geared up for another round of agitation. On Sunday, Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee, formed by eight political parties, announced fresh protest programmes for their demand of a separate Gorkhaland. However, the committee made changes in their programmes and announced that the proposed ‘people’s curfew’ from August 19 to 23 has been restricted to only one day on August 19.

The Kalachowkie police has booked office-bearers of Maharashtra State Child Welfare Committee (MSCWC) for misappropriating government funds of `51.83 lakh. The alleged cheating had taken place during the period 2004 to 2011 in the committee’s office at Currey Road.

In 2011, when he hacked the Kolkata traffic police’s website and claimed his responsibility, senior cops at Lalbazar, the city police headquarters, initially ignored his talent.

In a couple of days, the two female rhinoceros at the National Zoological Park at New Delhi will have a new mate in Shiva, the solitary male one-horned rhinoceros at the Byculla zoo. Following an agonising wait of five days, Shiva finally stepped into the transport cage on Sunday. He would be shifted to the New Delhi zoo by Wednesday.

Top arrested Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Abdul Karim Tunda has exposed the flourishing anti-India terror network of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He has spilled the beans on the ISI-Lashkar-Babbar Khalsa (BKI) network where more than a dozen Sikh militants are being given shelter, funding, training in weapons and explosives for unleashing terror strikes in the country.

The Army said on Sunday that Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire twice in the past 24 hours by targeting Indian forwards posts along the Line of Control (LoC) with small arms, machine-gun and mortar fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.

Gujarat chief minister and the BJP election campaign committee chief Narendra Modi’s poll mantra to party leaders at the crucial meet on Sunday was to meet the political aspirations of all sections of society, including Muslims, whom he feels are also looking for “political space”.

Even as UPA’s ambitious food security bill appears to be in limbo for want of order in the Lok Sabha, the Congress-ruled states are readying their plans to roll out the scheme from Tuesday, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The two Central probe agencies, the NIA and the CBI, are at loggerheads ov-er the issue of sharing the confessional statement of 26/11 terror accused Pakis-tani-Ameri-can terrorist David Colem-an Headley about the ante-cedents of Ishrat Jahan, who, along with three others, was killed in an alleged fake encounter on June 15, 2004.