-PTI Chennai: The much-delayed Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu has MISsed yet another deadline and is now likely to be comMISsioned by May. The commercial operation of the first of the 2x1000 MW reactors of the Indo-Russian project was expected by May, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has said. The second unit was also likely to be delayed with the expected comMISsioning pushed to December, it said. Minister of...

-PTI Colombo rejects U.S.-backed resolution, says it is "replete with MISrepresentations" on the current situation; 25 countries vote in favour, while 13 nations including Pakistan vote against India was among the 24 countries which backed a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Thursday at the U.N. Human Rights Council against Sri Lanka asking it to conduct an "independent and credible" probe into allegations of human rights violations, an issue on which the DMK pulled out...

-The Times of India Sparrows have become so rare in the capital that it seems not even Delhi's environment department can identify it correctly. The department's ad campaign on the occasion of World Sparrow Day on Wednesday carried a picture of the Eurasian tree sparrow, which is neither found in Delhi nor in most parts of India, MIStaking it for the house sparrow. It was an ironic reflection of the plight of...

-PTI In a peculiar case, the Central Information ComMISsion could not punish some CBI officials for a delayed response on an RTI application seeking information on Commonwealth Games related corruption cases as the persons concerned were "no longer in service". During a hearing of a complaint filed by Delhi advocate Vivek Garg, Chief Information ComMISsioner Satyananda MIShra said no penalty was imposed on the officials with CBI's Anti Corruption Branch (ACB),...

-The Hindu The comMISsion, which has won acclaim for conducting elections with fairness and integrity, is now in danger of seeing a huge gutting of its powers to do so The Union Government has told the Supreme Court that, in its view, the Election ComMISsion of India has no power to disqualify a candidate on grounds of “correctness or otherwise” of his/her election accounts. A counter-affidavit filed by the Union Law Ministry...