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KOLKATA: Two Union ministries – of Home and Defence – are currently engaged in a turf war. Who would police the highly-sensitive Indo-Myanmar border – the Assam Rifles, or the Border Security Force (BSF)? The Assam Rifles, under the operational command of the Army, has been doing this job all through. But now the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) wants the Assam Rifles replaced by the Border Security Force which is under Home. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is believed to be now seized of the matter.

Democratically speaking, how truly legitimate was West Bengal’s Left Front government and the composition of the party positions in the state legislature considering the fast changing political mood of the local people in 2010? A similar question may be asked also about Tamil Nadu before the 2011 Assembly election. In both the states, the ruling combination – Left Front in West Bengal and DMK and its allies in Tamil Nadu – were routed in the last assembly polls.

New Delhi: The Indian Government’s auditors have sharply indicted the Prime Minister’s Office and the Delhi Government headed by Sheila Dikshit for irregularities in hosting the XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 which involved thousand of crores rupees paid by the taxpayers.

New York: The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world’s most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full health, according to a United Nations report released today.

New Delhi: There was another casualty for Indian Air Force. A Jaguar deep-penetration strike aircraft crashed in Mau on Thursday killing its pilot and a girl working in an agricultural field, the second IAF plane to meet with an accident this week.

New York: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement today in response to an action against Managing Director Christine Lagarde initiated by a French public prosecutor.

New York: Three million poor people in Africa and South Asia, the majority of them women, will gain access to low-cost mobile phone numbers as part of technology firm Movirtu’s partnership with the United Nations-backed initiative that enlists the private sector in efforts to fight poverty.

New Delhi: The two-day discussion on price inflation in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, ended on Thursday with the House expressing concern over the rising trend in prices and the need to curb it.

New Delhi: The much-hyped Lokpal Bill-2011, a proposed legislation to set up an Ombudsman, was introduced in Lok Sabha by the UPA Government on Wednesday amid objections from BJP and its NDA partners over exclusion of Prime Minister in its ambit.

Should the civil society activists led by Anna Hazare continue their agitation against the government sponsored Lokpal bill? What would be the end result? Will the government bow to their wishes and change the provisions of the bill and if it does, what would be the fate of other controversial bills?