With the CBI expecting to get replies to its judicial requests from the UK and other countries in connection with its probe into the alleged irregularities committed in the procurement of Tatra trucks for the Indian Army, the agency is all set file its chargesheet in the case very soon.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered two cases under the provisions of the money laundering act against persons involved in running illegal arms manufacturing units in Bihar’s Munger district. The pistols from Munger were also used by operatives of certain militant outfits, including Indian Mujahideen (IM), sources said.

A day after 14 Maoists were killed by the Orissa police near Padia in Malkangiri district, a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and personnel from special investigation wings of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh on Sunday arrived in the state to probe into the alleged links of the slain rebels in the May 25 Darbha Ghati attack and many other ambushes on security personnel.

An additional director-general of police in Maharashtra, R.K. Sahaya, allegedly set himself on fire at his residence in Malabar Hill during the early hours of Sunday. The high-ranking officer is said to have suffered 50 per cent burns.

A teenaged student’s disappearance under mysterious circumstances from a residential school in Beliaghata triggered tension on Sunday. The mystery intensified when the boy’s senior alleged that he was murdered and his body was disposed of. Shantanu Mondal, 14, the missing boarder of Lee Collins High School at Beliaghata Main Road, is yet to be traced out by the police.

A city court will resume recording statements of prosecution witnesses from September 25 in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts case, in which 13 Indian Mujahideen (IM) men are facing trial.

The second test of the 5,000-km-range Agni V nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was successfully carried out on Sunday from Wheeler’s Island off the Orissa coast, nearly one-and-a-half years after the successful maiden launch of the same missile in April, 2012.

In his first public rally after being named as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi mainly focused his speech on foreign policy, a fervent pitch for “strong leadership”, advice for “friends” in Pakistan and how “lessons in true secularism” can be learnt from the Indian Army.

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi met veteran leader L.K. Advani again on Sunday at expelled party leader and Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani’s 90th birthday celebrations.

To make it easier to do business in India, a committee led by former Sebi chairman M. Damodaran has recommended disincentivising use of civil courts in contractual disputes, weeding out unwanted regulations and proper due diligence before setting up new regulatory authorities, among others.