Focussing on the current situation of increasing sexual abuses of children, women and child development (WCD) minister Krishna Tirath asked the state governments to take necessary steps for the implementation of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. The minister proposed that students be educated about the law as part of school curriculum.

The Akhilesh Yadav government on Tuesday transferred the Gautam Buddha Nagar district mining officer Ashish Kumar to Bulandshahr confirming a clampdown on those officials checking illegal mining in the district.

The government is likely to consider and adopt the findings and suggestions made by the Justice Usha Mehra committee report at a meeting of the Union Cabinet, which will take place on Thursday.

In a major breakthrough, the Enforcers of Intellectual Property Rights (EIPR) busted a racket of selling duplicate product of Canon in central Assam’s Sonitpur district.

Tripura chief minister and CPI(M) politburo member Manik Sarkar virtually stirred a hornet’s nest by revealing the internal proceedings of an important central committee meeting of the secretive party held 17 years ago where the party plugged former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu’s aspiration to become Prime Minister of the country which the departed leader later described as a “historic blunder”.

The BJP and KJP led by former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa are coming closer with the saffron party deciding to firm up an alliance with the breakaway outfit for the upcoming byelections to the three seats in the Legislative Council from the local body constituencies.

The government bears a daily loss of `3,31,826 to run the Parliament canteen as there has been no price hike of the food served since 2010.

I have no idea how the news spread about me being size zero. In fact, while shooting in Ladakh for Tashan, I was advised to have everything available locally.

Housing still remains a bane for majority of the city police’s constabulary, with most living in rundown government quarters across various locations in Mumbai.

The Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF) has sought more land from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for treating sewage water at Ghatkopar pumping station.