Panel for Prasar Bharati revamp
The Prime Minister on Monday cleared the appointment of a three-member committee to restructure Prasar Bharati. The high-level committee will be headed by N R Narayana Murthy, CEO of Infosys, and will include Kiran Karnik, head of Discovery Channel, and advertising guru Shunu Sen.

Those who died along with Rajiv Gandhi... forgotten
Eight years is a long time. The period is long enough for a person to relegate the events of May 21, 1991 to history.

Financial constraints responsible for piling backlog of cases, says CJI
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr Justice A S Anand on Monday called for making the judiciary `financially and administratively independent' so that the expectation of the teeming millions for speedy disposal of cases was realised.

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