-The Telegraph The CBI has sought the government’s permission to prosecute two IPS officers for alleged involvement in the 2007 Nandigram police firing in which 14 persons were killed. The investigating agency has also recommended disciplinary or departmental action against NINe other officers, including one from the IAS and three from the IPS. A letter dated May 23, 2012, (memo number 2242A) and undersigned by CBI deputy inspector-general Arun Bothra reached the office...

I read Aman Sethi's piece on the Saranda Development Plan (“NINe months on, police camps sole development in Saranda plan”, June 4) with great interest but with greater anguish. Before I deal with his main charge — that private miNINg interests are behind the SDP — I want to lay out what the SDP is all about. It is the first systematic experiment in combiNINg a security-oriented and development-focussed approach...

A day after partymen raised a stink over the UPA’s alleged policy paralysis at the Congress working committee meeting, the government moved to make amendments to the pension bill — one of the reforms measures that had been hit by coalition politics — at Thursday’s cabinet meeting. A cabinet note mentioned that the government had decided to address the concerns of all stakeholders and to build a broad consensus on...

Parts of Kerala have been receiving rains since this morNINg. Weather watchers attribute the slight delay in the onset of monsoon to Typhoon Mawar which was active in a western Pacific Ocean off the Philippines South-west monsoon, the key to the agriculture driven trillion-dollar Indian economy, is on course and is expected to drench Kerala by Wednesday thereby bringing much-needed relief to farmers, reports PTI. “Monsoon is round the corner. Parts of...

Weather conditions promoting El NINo persistent, says Met department; drought feared In its first monsoon forecast in late April, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had announced that monsoons would be normal this year and there was a little chance of El NINo—associated with dry spells west of the Pacific—arriving in the second half of the season. But of late, IMD seems to have shifted its stand. Now the weather agency is...