CBI team in Denmark, India hopes Kim Davy will be extradited

A CBI team reached Denmark on Monday to assist local authorities in the case against Purulia arms drop case prime accused Kim Davy in the Danish High Court which is expected to pronounce its verdict on Thursday on extradition of Kim Davy to India to face trial.Ahead of the verdict, the Indian Government is hopeful that the High Court will clear the decks for Davy’s extradition to India.A two-member team of CBI is in Copenhagen to assist authorities there with the facts and evidence collected against Davy. Though India is not a party to the case in the Danish court, the role of the team is limited to helping the prosecutors there with necessary material evidence.

CBI says Kalmadi tarnished country’s image

“Suresh Kalmadi’s conduct has tarnished the image of the country,” was how CBI described him while opposing the bail plea of the former CWG Organising Committee chief arrested on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in the award of games related contracts.“We are opposing the bail plea (of Kalmadi) as other co-accused in this case had already been denied bail by this court. Investigation is going on. Kalmadi’s conduct has tarnished the image of the country,” CBI prosecutor told Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh.

Government distances itself from decision to hike petrol prices

Amid protests from political parties over the hike in petrol prices, the government said the product was deregulated and the revision in the fuel rate was done by the oil marketing companies (OMCs).It, however, admitted that the hike would have “some impact” on overall inflation.

In China, a rediscovery of Sanskrit

Almost two millennia after the language first came to China through Buddhist scriptures, renewed interest in Buddhist studies and recent discoveries of long-forgotten manuscripts in Tibet have sparked a revival of the study of the ancient language among Chinese scholars.Beijing’s Peking University has now launched an ambitious programme to train more than 60 Chinese students in Sanskrit, with the hope of creating a team of researchers to help translate hundreds of manuscripts containing scriptures that have been found in Tibet and other centres of Buddhism, such as Hangzhou in China’s east.

2G: Supreme Court pulls up IT dept

The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Income Tax department for not taking timely action against the companies involved in the 2G spectrum scam and said had it not intervened, the officials would have “slept over it” and the oversees probe would not have proceeded.

Oil firms slash jet fuel price by over 2.9 per cent

In the first reduction in more than seven months, state-owned oil companies on Sunday cut jet fuel price by over 2.9 per cent after international oil rates cooled off from two-year high.Oil companies reduced ATF (air turbine fuel) price by Rs 1,766 per kilolitre or 2.9 per cent, to Rs 58,794 per kilolitre in Delhi, an official of Indian Oil Corporation said here, adding prices are effective from midnight on Sunday.

“Private non-minority colleges cannot have 100% reservation”

Private non-minority unaided professional educational institutions cannot have 100 per cent quota or the right to admit students of their choice from only a particular social group, excluding all other students from being considered for admission, the Supreme Court has held.A Bench of Justices B. Sudershan Reddy and S.S. Nijjar was setting aside the policy of the Army College of Medical Sciences (ACMS), New Delhi, to allot all seats to wards of current and retired Army personnel and widows of Army personnel, provided they qualified in the Common Entrance Test conduct by appropriate authorities for admission to medical colleges in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.