Headlines this morning
June 21, 2011  10:48

Good morning. The Lokpal panel meets today once again, for the last time before the draft is tabled before the monsoon session of Parliament next month. Stay with us for that and all that happens today.

 

Lokpal bill panel to resolve differences at all-party meet (The Hindu)

The government representatives and civil society members of the Joint Drafting Committee on the Lokpal Bill decided on Monday to leave the differences to be resolved at the next stage of wider consultations with political parties. Read

 

Karunanidhi leaves for Delhi to meet Kanimozhi (The Hindu)

Mr. Karunanidhi left by a private airline at 8.50 a.m. and was accompanied by senior leaders Duraimurugan and K. Ponmudy among others. Read

 

Pranab reported 'serious security breach in his office, urged PM to order probe (Indian Express)
In Sept 2010, taxmen and private detectives found 16 planted adhesives in North Block offices. Read

 

Police access Deys e-mails, claim fresh clues (Indian Express)

Claiming that significant progress had been made in the investigations into the murder of veteran investigative journalist J Dey, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch sources indicated that the probe had gained momentum after fresh leads were obtained recently from Deys e-mail communications. Read

 

Samjhauta blast: NIA to charge sheet top RSS leader Indresh Kumar (DNA)

After naming Hindutva leader Swami Aseemanand and others in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to include top RSS functionary Indresh Kumar in its supplementary charge sheet of the case, which claimed 68 lives. Read

 

Indian consul general in New York slapped with forced-labour suit (Hindustan Times)

Prabhu Dayal, the Indian consul general in New York, has been accused of treating a former domestic help as a slave and making sexual advances, a charge rejected by Dayal as "complete nonsense". Read

 


44 killed in Russian plane crash (Hindustan Times)

At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an emergency ministry spokeswoman said today. Read

 

Lalit Modi doesn't fascinate me: Indian Cricket Board chief (DNA)
Modi, in his Twitter page, had alleged that the BCCI forced the International Cricket Council to change its constitution to outlaw the now defunct Indian Cricket League floated by the Essel Group. Read

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