In what is being viewed as a direct fallout of the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case that has triggered a massive confrontation between the CBI and the Intelligence Bureau, the government has now decided to make it mandatory for the intelligence agency to seek written approval from the home minister before issuing a terror-related advisory or an alert to the state police.

The CBI is soon likely to examine Rajendra Kumar, special director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), as part of its probe into the January 2003 Sadiq Jamal encounter case. Mr Kumar has already been quizzed twice in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case being probed by the CBI.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday ordered an internal inquiry to identify the official who allegedly leaked documents related to the agency’s probe into the disproportionate assets case against Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his sons-Akhilesh Yadav and Prateek Yadav.

If your son or daughter is hooked to video games and play stations and is also fasting during the month of Ramzan, it is advisable for her or him not to play games.

The creation of a separate Telangana state is expected to open a pandora’s box of demands for separate statehood in other parts of the country.

Actor Sanjay Dutt on Tuesday exhausted his last legal resort against the five year imprisonment awarded to him, with the Supreme Court dismissing the curative petition filed by him challenging its verdict which had held him guilty in a case pertaining to the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

Murder and mayhem continued to rock Murshidabad district even a day after the panchayat election. In the post-poll violence in the district, five persons were killed on Tuesday. So far a dozen people have died in Murshidabad in the past three days in poll-related violence.

The father of an Independent candidate who was shot at on Monday succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday triggering a clamour for the arrest of the Trinamul Congress Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal.

Senior BJP leader M.M. Joshi headed Public Accounts Committee of Parliament is expected to question the Attorney General and the law secretary this week on the issue of the AG’s two “contradictory” opinions on a CAG report which said expenditure on interest payment on tax refunds was in contravention of constitutional provisions.

The beleaguered UDF Ministry hit a double whammy on Tuesday when the high court asked whether chief minister Oommen Chandy wasn’t aware of a dubious solar panel deal and Government chief whip P.C. George taunted Mr Chandy and home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhak-rishnan, saying they shouldn’t hang on, as “objects of ridicule”.