The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday extended till September 20 the stay on the arrest of former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, in connection with a corruption case lodged against him in Kanpur.

New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting of chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra Aug 2 to discuss the row over the Babhali dam project between the riverine states, official sources said.

New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) An appropriate mechanism is in place for redressing public grievances, the central government said Thursday, pointing out that 58,546 of the 59,678 complaints received have been forwarded to the concerned ministries and departments.

The personal details of 100 million users of social networking website Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online. Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a code to scan Facebook profiles, collected data not hidden by users' privacy settings, and compiled a list, which is now available as a downloadable file, containing the URL of every "searchable" Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID, the BBC reported Thursday (July 29).

According to a series of investigations by TIMES NOW, Commonwelath Games 2010 to be held in New Delhi in October has run into serious trouble. Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman and IOA president Suresh Kalmadi is under the dock. Kalmadi washes hands off reports of corruption in construction contracts.