Uttar Pradesh has become notorious amongst states for transferring officers within less than one year or two years of their posting. The Samajwadi Party, which has sparked a nationwide furore over the suspension of Greater Nodia SDM Durga Shakti Nagpal, is only following the footsteps of the Mayawati-led BSP government.

The Supreme Court on Monday said the Centre must frame rules restricting the use of beacon lights and sirens by VIPs and also directed that the authorities must deal strictly with their unauthorised use which is a “menace to society”.

The decision to create Telangana and demand for carving out Bodoland state, led to repeated adjournments in Rajya Sabha on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament on Monday.

The Uttarakhand tragedy came up for discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, with former chief minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari (BJP) accusing the state government of failing to take appropriate and timely measures.

With a number of important bills, including food security ordinance, on the agenda of Parliament, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday asked party managers to ensure the presence of maximum MPs of the party in the House.

The government on Monday introduced a bill in the Rajya Sabha to pave way for stricter enforcement of laws to protect wildlife, including imprisonment up to seven years and conferring of arrest powers on a wildlife authority.

The human resources development ministry on Monday informed the Rajya Sabha that it has received 41 complaints of irregularities in the working of the midday meal scheme in the past three years.

Heavy traffic on highways is affecting the reproduction patterns of India’s tiger population. “Loss of reproduction owing to disturbance on account of heavy traffic on our highways,” has been cited as one of the main reasons for decline for the decline in tiger population, said environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

After Telangana, the clamour for a separate Vidarbha state has caused rift within the Congress in Maharashtra.

The cyber cell officials of the Mumbai crime branch have arrested a 32-year-old Dombivali resident, who allegedly morphed pictures of a 28-year-old woman and posted it on a social networking site.