-The Telegraph Delhi High Court today refused to stay criminal proceedings against Yahoo India which had challenged a lower court order summoning it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Justice Suresh Kait declined to pass an order and fixed March 1 for the next appearance, saying he would hear the case before the trial court does on March 13. Arvind Nigam, the counsel for Yahoo India, today claimed that the company’s name did not...

-PTI   Former Gujarat DGP, RB Sreekumar on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) for allegedly taking a pro-Narendra Modi line in the probe into the 2002 riots cases, to shield him from the prosecution. In an open letter to the people, Sreekumar, who headed the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) during the riots period, has also made public his first statement before the SIT in May 2008.   He had then talked...

-Eastern Panorama   It’s been almost two months since a 6.9 magnitude earthquake left the Himalayan state of Sikkim devastated. Nine families of Ralak village in Tingchim Mangshilla Gram Panchayat in the North District of Sikkim are still living in make shift Relief camps with the mothers cuddling their children under blankets to give them comfort and warmth in the cold November nights. As snow has already covered the mountains visible from...

West Bengal: An agrarian crisis looms over the State as farmers commit suicide in spite of a bumper crop. THE topic of suicide figured repeatedly in Safar Molla's conversations with his neighbours a few days before his death. The 18-year-old marginal farmer from Kaltikuri village in Bardhaman district's Bhatar block talked about it quite casually, in fact even jocularly. Everybody in the village knew he was up to his neck in...

The Supreme Court verdict cancelling all the 122 telecom licences that jailed former telecom minister A Raja had issued to eight firms in 2008 has unexpectedly opened up a new window that can help the government earn up to Rs 75,000 crore. The revenue raised from the fresh auction of spectrum freed up after last week's SC ruling will come as a welcome Relief for the government that has been struggling...