Dravid to share his views on match fixing
New Delhi: Ace batsman Rahul Dravid will be exchanging his thoughts with some of the country's finest investigators at a CBI function to deliberate on corruption in sports in the backdrop of match fixing allegations in cricket. The three-day international conference, starting on Monday, is on "evolving common strategies to combat corruption and crime". The Prime Minister will also present the President's Police Medals for Distinguished Service to six CBI Officers for their outstanding performance.
‘Cases related to women priority’
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam on Sunday said courts should give priority to cases pertaining to women, corruption and arbitration as well as environment. He also noted that trend of litigation has changed where the apex court is forced to hear "very very politically sensational matters," when earlier it concentrated mostly on constitutional issues. The CJI was speaking on the occasion of 99th birth anniversary of former Supreme Court judge, Justice V R Krishna Iyer, whom he described as a rare combination of a legislator and an eminent judicial officer and a person who never bent his values under external pressures.
New Delhi: The Government on Sunday is understood to have cleared names of five Information Commissioner for the Central Information Commission (CIC), a move which would almost fill all the vacancies. Sources said names of Yashovardhan Azad, an IPS officer who had a long stint with IB before joining present assignment as Secretary (security) in Cabinet Secretariat, Sharat Sabharwal from Indian Foreign Service, Manjula Parashar 1975-batch Indian Postal Service Officer, who also held the position of Secretary Department of Posts ,have been cleared. The names of Madabhushi Sridhar (Acharyulu) a writer on law and journalism and M A Khan Yusufi , retired joint secretary from Ministry of law, are also believed to have been cleared.