Janaki Fernandes With Agency Inputs

• Sreesanth, two Rajasthan Royals players arrested for spot-fixing in IPL

  Kerala pacer S. Sreesanth and two other players of the Rajasthan Royals Indian Premier League team have been arrested by the Delhi Police and charged with spot-fixing in the on-going tournament.

• Delhi braveheart's friend's interview can't be used as evidence: Supreme Court on December 16 gang-rape

  The Supreme Court today said that the interview to a private channel given by the friend of the 23-year-old student, who was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi in December, cannot be used as evidence in the case.

• Hang him publicly, says mother of 4-year-old who died from rape injuries

  The body of the four-year-old who died in a Nagpur hospital nine days after she was brought there in an air ambulance is being taken back to her village in Madhya Pradesh. The child had been kidnapped and raped near her house on April 17; her parents found her the next morning, bleeding and unconscious. She remained in a coma for over a week...

• Chit fund scam: Mamata asks Bengal to smoke a little more to help raise Rs 500-cr relief fund

  Mamata Banerjee announced a Rs 500 crore fund yesterday to refund the poorest among lakhs of depositors who have lost their savings in the Saradha chit fund collapse. The Chief Minister was apologetic as she announced a 10 per cent additional tax on cigarettes, suggesting, with the hint of a smile, that people could smoke more for a few days to hel...

• How India's handling Chinese incursion at Ladakh

  The Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh has briefed Defence Minister AK Antony on the Chinese incursion at Ladakh. The General reviewed the situation yesterday with senior commanders in Jammu and Kashmir.

• Rail Budget 2013: Fare has been hiked through the back door, says Mayawati

  Within minutes of Railway Minister presenting the Rail Budget 2013, there were bouquets and brickbats for him. Most leaders from the Congress praised the budget and the minister. The opposition and even some of the allies were not so kind.

• Rail Budget 2013: Pawan Bansal promises better Railways, but no hike in passenger fares

  Rail Budget 2013: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has not raised passenger fares despite emphasising on the big losses the Railways is making, pegged at Rs 24,500 crore for this year.

• Rail Budget 2013: Railways to get 'next generation' e-ticketing system, free wi-fi on some trains

  Rail Budget 2013: By the end of this year, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal promises to revamp the e-ticketing system to support 7,200 net bookings in a minute. Right now, the Railways website allows 2,000 bookings a minute and crashes often due overloading.

• VVIP chopper scandal: Govt suspends payments to Italian firm Finmeccanica

  The government has suspended payments to Italian defence giant Finmeccanica until the completion of a CBI probe, sources said, after allegations of corruption in the 4,000-crore deal for 12 helicopters for use by VVIPs like the Prime Minister.

• VVIP chopper deal: Another Bofors scam in the making, says BJP; Govt says no

  Ten days before the Budget session of Parliament begins, the opposition has been handed a new controversy to attack the Congress-led UPA government with and the BJP has quickly termed the Italian chopper deal now under a cloud as the "second Bofors scam".

• Ashok Chavan named in CBI chargesheet in Adarsh scam

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed its chargesheet in the Adarsh housing society scam. Sources say former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan has been named in the chargesheet.

• 61 people dead in Assam floods; PM, Sonia to visit today

  The flood situation in Assam continues to be grim with the toll having risen sharply to 61. Nearly 20 lakh people have also been displaced in the flood, the worst in more than a decade. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are slated to visit the state tomorrow to take stock of the situation. They are expected to reac...

• Historical Dastgeer Sahib shrine in Srinagar gutted in blaze

  A fire broke out at the more than century old shrine of Dastgeer Sahib in the Khanyar area of Srinagar. Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to bring the blaze under control at the shrine that is mostly made up of wood. However ancient relics of the saint, housed in the Shrine have been saved and retrieved. Officials say since they were kept i...