Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the "common man" has to make use of rights and powers through various legislations for facilitating good governance. Abdullah said his government has created a platform to restrict chances of corruption and enhance public service delivery and it is now for the people to use available ...Read More

The Pakistani judicial commission postponed it scheduled visit to India. The commission was to visit India for cross examining the Indian prosecution witnesses of the Mumbai attack case, Indian media reported. The reasons that caused postponement of the visit were not given. However, earlier there were report that the visit might be postponed due to some legal issues relating to the trial of the accused ...Read More

Former Telecom Minister A Raja, the prime accused facing trial in the 2G case, today completed one year in jail since his arrest in the high-profile scam. Raja, who was the first one to be arrested in the case on February 2, last year, is languishing behind the bars as he has not yet moved any application for release on bail....Read More

The income tax (I-T) department's search operation at leading Uttar Pradesh businessman Gurdeep Singh Chadha alias Ponty Chadha's premises continued for the second consecutive day on Thursday. According to sources, the I-T department has seized several important documents. It also claimed to have found papers pertaining to a secret mining lease allotted to Chadha by the Uttar Pradesh government. However, ...Read More

Kolkata: A city court on Thursday granted interim bail to renowned Dr Mani Chettri, arrested in connection with the fire at AMRI hospital that claimed 93 lives. Chettri, the managing director in whose name the hospital had the licence, was arrested on January 27 along with another renowned doctor Pranab Dasgupta. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore, C H Karim granted ...Read More

New Delhi: The Election Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a complaint under FEMA against sacked CWG Organising Committee (OC) Chief Suresh Kalmadi and 4 others in the Queens Baton Rally case. The complaint is in connection with financial irregularities in the payments made to a London based firm AM Films. The complaint points to foreign exchange ...Read More

The RCMP have implicated a Canadian tech executive in an alleged bribery and bid-rigging scheme that involves prominent public figures in India at a time when outrage over corruption has paralyzed its Parliament. The federal Justice Department is planning to prosecute businessman Nazir Karigar, an Indian-born Canadian citizen on charges that he violated the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials ...Read More

The Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar today expressed satisfaction over the progress in 2G issue and said the Commission will give a prompt response after studying the Supreme Court judgement. "We will study that judgement. We will respect that judgement and CVC as you know has referred the matter to the CBI and we are glad that matter is progressing," Kumar told reporters here....Read More

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday brought up the alleged embezzlement of funds meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme — an issue that has put the Mayawati government in the dock — at a function commemorating the completion of six years of the job entitlement scheme. Holding the State governments responsible for the shortcomings, ...Read More

“As a developing country in the frontlines of climate vulnerability, India has a vital stake in the evolution of a successful, rule-based, equitable and multilateral response to climate change,” said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012 organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) here on Thursday....Read More