It looks like the honeymoon period between activists of the Lokpal Bill and the government has ended with sharp differences emerging between the two today. After a marathon three hour meeting, the government refused to concede to the basic principles demanded by Anna Hazare and his nominees.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Monday declared former president Pervez Musharraf a "proclaimed offender" or fugitive for failing to cooperate in the probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, media reports said.
President Barack Obama moved on Monday to complete an overhaul of the national security apparatus, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid a winding down of the war in Iraq, protracted battle in Afghanistan and American assistance to the NATO-led effort against Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi.
In a shocking case in Bihar's Gopalgunj district, seven convicts at the district jail severely beat up prison doctor B D Singh, who died of his injuries enroute to the Patna Medical College Hospital.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) today came in for some tough questioning at a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on its presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer in 2G spectrum allocation with some members questioning its mandate of looking into a policy decision for arriving at the figure.
The Delhi High Court has reserved its order on the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi, arrested and jailed in connection with the 2G scam. She has been behind bars at Tihar Jail for more than two weeks now.
After a gap of four years, defence secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan on the long-pending Siachen issue kicked off in New Delhi today. Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar is leading the Indian delegation during the two-day talks with his Pakistani counterpart Lt General (Retd) Syed Ather Ali.
Karim Morani: Delhi's Tihar will soon have VIP inmate. A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of Cineyug Films' Karim Morani who has been named as the co-conspirators in the 2G scam by the CBI.
