Such has been the labyrinthine process of the law of the land that after a decade of charges and counter charges, claims and counter claims, the fate of Vedanta’s `4,500-crore alumina refinery at Lanjigarh and the future of its `50,000 crore other investments in the state will be decided by around two thousand Dongaria Kondh tribals residing in the hill slopes of Niyamgiri.

Three districts of Burdwan, Hooghly and East Midnapore will go to the polls in the second phase of the five-phase panchayat elections on Monday, amidst increasing poll violence in the state which claimed another life.
The state election commission (SEC) on Sunday informed that the second phase poll is taking place at 12,514 booths in three districts with 96,25,320 electorates to cast their votes.

The traffic police sub-inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was beaten up by two MLAs over a heated argument, and was later suspended, has been reinstated in the service.

State panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee on Sunday found no fault with the bike rallies. He even backed the Trinamul MPs and MLAs who had verbally attacked state election commissioner Mira Pande even as state transport minister Madan Mitra continued to do the same.

The Secretariat of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly has refused to provide the CCTV footage capturing the assault on assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi by the MLAs on March 19 this year. The refusal came in the wake of an RTI query filed by RTI activist Anil Galgali.

The Agripada police has launched a manhunt for a thug couple for allegedly duping a city-based businessman to the tune of `5 lakh on the pretext of giving his son a job as a spot boy to Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.

Amid heavy police bandobust and large turnover of grieving villagers, dalit youth Ilavarasan was laid to rest in a small piece of land owned by his family at his native Natham village, seven km from Dharmapuri, on Sunday.

Teachers seeking recruitment in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation schools will now have to clear a mandatory interview, as part of the new recruitment procedure.

A youth has been arrested for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl when she was alone at her house in Pashim Vihar area in West Delhi, the police said on Saturday.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) now offers distance-learning certificate for a six-month course in organic farming, the varsity said on Saturday.