-The Telegraph   CBI officials today said Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy could be questioned for alleged underhand deals in granting mining leases after suspected links emerged between the Andhra Pradesh MP and arrested Bellary baron Gali Janardhana Reddy. The sources said the agency had evidence of links between Janardhana’s Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) and Jagan’s business activities. The allegation is the latest against the Kadapa MP, who is alleged to have struck “quid pro quo”...

Long promised by the UPA government, the food security bill will be tabled in parliament in December this year. However, the National Advisory Council (NAC), which drafted the proposal, is tussling with the government over the “dilution and misdirection” of the Bill. The final Bill diverges from the original NAC draft on key issues: adoption of alternatives to the PDS such as cash transfers, the risk of inflation due to...

Anna Hazare and his followers have a skewed notion of corruption. Would they ever see the Bhopal gas tragedy as the symptom of the problem? The government’s initial contempt and arrogance for Anna Hazare’s protest turned into craven pandering as his hordes made a carnival of it in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan. One was troubled by the fate of other protesters who have received short shrift—the small, the struggling and much suffering...

-The Economic Times   The CBI, which had on Saturday registered a case under section 302 of the IPC in the murder of Bhopal-based RTI activist Shehla Masood, is expected to question, among others, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay and party MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh, as part of its investigation. The investigating agency's Bhopal unit, which had taken over the case after the Centre forwarded to it a request to that...

-The Economic Times   There seems to be no end to Posco's hurdles in the land acquisition and construction drive for its proposed 12-million-tonne steel plant near Paradip, even as the South Korean steel major has agreed not to insist on an important import clause in its lapsed agreement with the Orissa government. Even supporters of Posco in the project-affected villages have turned hostile and are now totally opposed to felling of...