-The Times of India   An RTI activist was attacked by four people, two of them believed to be cricket bookies, with a chopper and hammer in subur-ban Kandivali in Mumbai, police said. According to police, the activist, Mehul Kataria, 39, was walking on the road on Friday night when the assailants started thrashing him. The accused ran away when people gathered around the place. Kataria was rushed to the nearby...

Superintendent of police (Pune rural) Sandeep Karnik, who was in charge of security during the Maval agitation on August 9 in which three farmers died in police firing, has written to director general of police Ajit Parasnis seeking a transfer, according to reliable sources. Karnik sent the letter on Tuesday, the sources said, adding that the officer wants to be moved out as he believes people may misread his continuance...

In the current hullabaloo about the lok pal bill and the Anna agitation, one question has frequently been raised, both by protagonists of the Congress and the government and by constitutionalists and legal experts: however laudable the goals of Anna and his supporters, aren’t the methods adopted by them illegitimate? Doesn’t a fast unto death amount to blackmail of the legislature? Isn’t it an attempt by the unelected to usurp...

-PTI   Rahul Gandhi on Thursday termed as "wrong" the police firing on agitating farmers in Mawal in Pune district as he visited the families of those killed in the incident and joined a prayer meeting. Making an unscheduled visit to a cluster of villages in the area, the AICC general secretary met the families of the victims - Shyamrao Tope at Sadawali village, Moreshwar Sathe at Shivrane village and the family of...

-The Indian Express   Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said suspended work of the contentious closed water pipeline project at Maval, which led to a violent protest recently, would not be recommenced till the "misgivings" of the affected farmers were removed. "Nothing will be done by keeping people in the dark. This applies to all projects including Jaitapur (nuclear power plant)," he told reporters after visiting the injured agitators in a hospital...