'He will do what is Constitutionally right'

With his appointment as AG, the many Constitutional law matters that are pending before the Supreme Court will receive specialised attention. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   The......

Centre may replace AFSPA: Chidambaram

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said recommendations of two panels on replacing the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, in force in some northeastern states, with a more......

Magsaysay winner visits fasting Irom Sharmila

An application under the Right to Information Act was filed on Monday in New Delhi demanding that the Prime Minister's Office provide vital information pertinent to not only the Justice Jeevan......

Support pours for Manipur's fasting activist

The global community on Thursday lent support to Irom Sharmila, the Manipur activist who has been fasting since December 2002, in her unrelenting protests against the continued imposition of the......

Black money: SC appoints special probe team

The Supreme Court on Monday appointed a high-level special investigation team headed by former apex court judge B P Jeevan Reddy to monitor the investigation and the steps being taken to bring back......

Deadline to start probing black money extended

The Supreme Court on Friday granted one week's more time to the Centre to set up SIT under its former judge M B Shah to monitor all black money cases as per its direction. A vacation bench of......

3 ex-SC judges to decide Balco stake arbitration

V N Khare and S P Bharucha, both once Chief Justices of India, have been appointed to the arbitration panel to resolve the issue of sale of the government's residual 49 per cent stake in Bharat......

RCOM-MTN deal called off

The much-touted deal between Anil Ambani group company RCOM and South African telecom giant MTN was called off on Friday. "The two sides were unable to conclude the transaction due to certain......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 25 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

'When brothers go hand in hand they are unmatchabl

USER: Atreya Banerjee1. Virender Sehwag2. Sachin Tendulkar3. Inzamam ul Haq4. Saurav Ganguly5. Rahul Dravid6. Yuvraj Singh7. Abdur Razzaq8. Wasim Akram9. Shoaib Akhtar10. Zaheer Khan11. Saqlain......