Government has decided to blacklist India's moon mission man Madhavan Nair and three other scientists after the former Isro head was held culpable for his role in spectrum worth Rs 15,000 crore being given for Rs 1,000 crore to private firm Devas. Two inquiries ordered by the government concluded that Nair had seriously erred in withholding details of the agreement between Isro's commercial arm Antrix and Devas for use of S-band...

The government appears to be working towards an amicable solution on the question of who can collect biometric information data for the Indian population. There has been disagreement about whether this will be done by the UIDAI headed by Nandan Nilekani, or the National Population Register headed by Home Minister P. Chidambaram. It now seems that both may continue to collect data but share its use. When any country sets about...

-CNN-IBN Two more AMRI directors were held in hospital fire case on Friday. Kolkata police arrested Dr Moni Chhetri, the MD of the company and Dr Pranab Dasgupta, a member of the AMRI Board. Nine directors and four senior officials have been arrested so far in the case. The fire at the Kolkata-based hospital killed 93 people till January 19. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced compensation of Rs 300,000 for the...

-The Indian Express   Six Dalits were thrashed by three members of another community in Rethal village, about 20 kilometres from Sanand town, on Tuesday night following which one of them died in the hospital. Three others are said to be critical while one has sustained minor injuries. The reason, police said, is the two FIRs they had lodged against one Yuvrajsinh for allegedly beating up a Dalit auto-driver. According to villagers, three persons...

Centre favours CBI inquiry into alleged misappropriation of funds With the Congress-led Union government favouring a CBI enquiry, in its affidavit before the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, into embezzlement in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme funds, trouble is apparently brewing for the BSP government under Chief Minister Mayawati, who is already bearing the brunt of the NHRM scam in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. The Centre filed the affidavit...