-The Hindustan Times The Centre and the CBI faced off before the Supreme Court over the coal scam on Tuesday, with the investigating agency pointing out flaws in the coal block allocation process. To ensure there is no political interference, the court asked the investigating agency not to share its probe report with the government. This is the first time the Central Bureau of Investigation has pointed out irregularities in coal block...

-The Hindustan Times Enacted in 1958 to deal with the Naga uprising in the then composite state of Assam, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) was reviewed by the Justice BP Jeevan Reddy Committee in 2005, which recommended that it be scrapped.   The Reddy report remains untabled in Parliament, despite the recent outcry, triggered by the Justice Verma Committee’s view that the Act needs to be reviewed (in the light...

-The Hindustan Times Traffic on Mathura Road remained affected for almost four hours as thousands of activists of Yamuna Bachav Yatra marched towards the Capital on Sunday. The march stopped just a kilometre ahead of the Delhi border. They are likely to enter Delhi on Monday.   “Delhi Police told us to stay in Faridabad for one more night as the government does not want this huge yatra to enter Delhi,” said Sunil...

-The Hindustan Times Bhubaneswar: A national level fact-finding team comprising civil liberties groups and individuals on Sunday demanded a high level judicial inquiry into the bomb blast in a village near the site of proposed $12 billion (Rs 54 crore) plant of Korean steel major Posco in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district that killed three anti-Posco activists and seriously injured another activist. The team members, including 'Mainstream' editor Sumit Chakravartty, former Delhi University professor...

-The Hindustan Times Racing against time to meet the March 22 deadline for getting Parliament’s nod on its tougher anti-rape bill replacing the existing ordinance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to approve the proposed legislation. On a day when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi promised a quick passage of the bill and said crimes against women make “our heads hang in shame”, the government went into...