-Outlook The Supreme Court today pulled up the Centre for not establishing sufficient number of special CBI courts leading to delay in handling cases of corruption involving high profile politicians and public servants. A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said that number of cases handled by CBI is growing every year but the Centre is not providing adequate resources in terms of man power and establishing special...

-The Indian Express A family which lives in a Janta flat in West Delhi was left speechless after the Delhi Jal Board sent a bill of Rs 2.39 crore for water dues. Paramjit Singh, a resident of CB block in Hari Nagar, was handed the bill three days ago and told to pay up. He had last received a water bill on December 24, 2011. Worried, the family began making inquiries. Singh’s wife...

-The Economic Times The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to immediately explain why it is restricting the sale of airwaves in the upcoming auctions, and not selling all spectrum vacated by the 122 licences whose permits were cancelled earlier this year. But the apex court clarified that the upcoming airwaves sale process, scheduled to begin on November 12 ,would not be deferred, even as it asked the telecom department to...

-The Times of India DHARMAPURI: Outraged by the suicide of a man who felt humiliated after his daughter married a dalit boy in secret, a mob of non-dalits went on the rampage in three villages of Dharmapuri district, looting and burning houses of dalits late on Wednesday, police said. The 2,500-strong mob set ablaze 148 houses in Natham, Anna Nagar and Kondampatti villages. They claimed that the "humiliation" caused by the marriage...

-The Indian Express The Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai told a meeting of the World Economic Forum that the “brazenness” with which government decisions were being taken is “actually appalling”. A day before that, he had told students in Shillong that the “suffering majority had begun to speak up”. In times when corruption is the central issue and the government evidently suffers from a credibility deficit, the statements...