New Delhi, June 01: President’s rule was imposed in Jharkhand Tuesday, two days after Shibu Soren stepped down as chief minister and none of the three major political parties in the state showing willingness to form an alternate government.

The cabinet committee on political affairs chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Tuesday morning to approve the imposition of president’s rule and put the legislative assembly in suspended animation, official sources said.

New Delhi, June 01: Contradicting Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s statement that he had got clearance for his controversial yatra in the Telangana region from Veerappa Moily, the latter denied denied giving any such permission to the Andhra Pradesh leader.

Reddy, MP from Kadapa and son of late Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy, claimed that he had got the clearance for his tour when he met Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily, who is AICC in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, here this morning.

Chicago, June 01: A four-member team from India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrived here to interrogate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley, who has confessed to his role in plotting the Mumbai terror attack.

This will be for the first time that Pakistani-American Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 to hide his Muslim and Pakistani origin as he scouted targets in Mumbai, will be facing direct questions from Indian investigators since his arrest in October last year.

New Delhi, June 01: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Home Minister P. Chidambaram have agreed on not involving the CBI in the Gyaneshwari Express train accident as the state police have almost cracked the case, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said Tuesday.

Yechury told reporters here that Bhattarcharjee had conveyed to Chidambaram that there was no need for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till the police investigation is over and report filed.

New Delhi, June 01: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin is now in the Capital to get her Indian visa extended since the validity of the travel document expires in August.

Taslima, who has been in and out of the country after she was dramatically bundled out of West Bengal in November 2007 in the wake of protests by radical Muslim groups, came from London in the wee hours of Sunday and was immediately whisked away to a safe location.

The 47-year-old doctor-turned writer is also trying for a permanent residency in the country. Her visa is valid till August 16.

Chandigarh, June 01: Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term by a court here in Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, today again failed to get any relief as the Punjab and Haryana High Court deferred the hearing in his bail petition till tomorrow.

The High Court’s single vacation bench of Justice Ajay Tewari posted the matter for tomorrow after it was told to him that advocate of Ruchika’s family Pankaj Bhardwaj was indisposed.

The same judge had yesterday deferred the hearing on Rathore’s revision petition seeking bail till today.

Mumbai, June 01: The bail plea of Abdul Samad, whose arrest in connection with the German bakery blast created a controversy, was rejected by a court and his custody was not sought again by ATS which apparently failed to produce any evidence linking him with the attack.

Rejecting the bail plea, Magistrate M V Morale sent 23-year-old Samad, who was produced before him, to judicial custody till June 14 after he read the remand application of Maharashtra’s Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS).