The CBI is preparing to file its first charge-sheet against former Karnataka Tourism Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy for illegal mining as well as export of iron ore.

CBI joint director V. V. Lakshminarayana said, "We will file the charge-sheet in the CBI special court in Nampally very soon on the export of iron ore from the Obulapuram Mining Company belonging to Janardhan Reddy to other countries."

The Hindu’s Editor-in-Chief has been given clean chit by the Madras High Court. During a telephonic interview, Hindu’s Editor-in-Chief Ram said, “We are happy about the order that vindicates our position”.

Ram has been in news since May when he moved to Madras high court against CLB. CLB is a part-judicial body which acts as an umpire in corporate disputes. On 20th May, the CLB asked The Hindu to change its tradition of posting family members to the editorial post. The dispute was actually raised between the two groups of the board of The Hindu’s publishers Kasturi and Sons Ltd and Ram.

On Thursday, the Calcutta High Court has postponed the hearing of Tata Motors’ petition against the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011. Tata Motors has challenged the Act passed by the West Bengal Assembly ordering the company to return the land. The court has said that the matter will be discussed at 11 a. m. on Friday.

Jamie Sewart, who has faced almost two years of legal proceedings and is now returning to normal life, has said that Juror Joanne Fraill has been handed a harsh punishment.

Fraill and defendant Jamie Sewart had a conversation about the case on the social networking site and as a result wrecked the trail wasting 10 weeks and costing £6m. Fraill admitted to contacting Sewart online and faces up to two years in prison over the breach. Sewart said the court had made an example of Fraill by sending her to jail.

On Wednesday, the Kolkata High Court has ordered the Lawyer of Tata Motors, Samaraditya Pal to serve a notice to the Bengal Government after the Singur bill was scrapped.

Under a new act rolled out by the West Bengal's Trinamool Congress government, led by Mamata Banerjee, Tata Motors was directed to return the land which they had acquired from the unwilling farmers for Tata Motors' Nano car plant in Singur. The Tata Motors rejected to follow the ruling and challenged the decision of the government in Kolkata High Court.

Hasan Ali Khan, owner of Pune stud farm has been involved in a money laundering case has been put on remand four days in Enforcement Directorate’s custody as per orders of Supreme Court on Thursday. He has pulled up the trial court judge who had granted bail to him dismissing the agency’s plea.

It was not accepted by the bench of justices B. Sudershan Reddy and S. S. Nijjar the manner in which the trial court judge had rejected the ED’s contention and granted bail on giving lengthy order of it.

The case of Bhopal gas tragedy is yet to be settled. The tragic incident happened 27 years back. But now the Chief Justice of India has led a five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court to hear the two petitions on this case. One petition was filed by the CBI for restoration of the stringent charge of culpable homicide and the second one for giving better compensation to the victims. It was filed by the Centre on February 28 in open court.

Chief Justice S H Kapadia is the leader of the Bench. On Thursday he took this decision in an in-chamber session on the petitions.

A Raja, former telecom minister has been on extended custody for four days by CBI has ended today. CBI has asked for the extension of Raja’s custody because he was not co-operating with them.

Along with Raja, Shahid Balwa, Managing Director of DB Realty and promoter of Swan Telecom Ltd custody’s also come to an end.

The government is asked to remove persons related to food and soft drink companies from statutory panels to enforce safety and standards on edible items as per Supreme Court orders.

A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and A K Ganguly, believes that company representatives on scientific panels was a clear breach of the mandate under Section 13(1) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

On Thursday the civil judge, junior division (first), Kanpur, structured to publish notification to the state government, Central government, chief medical officer and district magistrate, Kanpur, in the Anuj Behl lawsuit.

Yaseen Akbar, the leading officer, in her decree, scrutinized that the lawsuit was introduced in opposition to the Union of India, the state government and further to search for provisional ruling.

On Sunday, for cheating a man, by obtaining his credit card information and using it in an online transaction, a person was arrested in Delhi by the police. Following the investigations, into a complaint, which was filed by Mr. Sharad Kumar, they arrested Mr. Yunus who is a resident of Laxmi Nagar.

He complained that in March last year, a girl who identified herself as Pooja called him on phone for offering a Kotak Mahindra credit card. When he asked her to send a salesman, Mr. Amit Kumar visited him and took the Xerox of his ABN Amor credit card and Citibank card.

All these years, Delhi has been following the outdated Punjab Excise Act 1914. Now, they have got a new law. The main change in the law is a heavy increase in the fine for the public drinking.

On Monday, the new law came into effect. The legal age for drinking remains 25, although the law brings down the age to 21 years for the person who can be served liquor. In five-star hotels, the law allows women bartenders.

For drinking the liquor in public places, the fine has been increased from the Rs. 200/- to Rs. 5000/-. While drinking in public, if nuisance is created a person, the fine doubles to Rs. 10,000.

While the founder of the tainted Satyam Computers Services, B. Ramalinga Raju got a bail a few days back, perhaps the decision could not please the CBI team heading the investigation in this case. It is to be mentioned here that the investigation agency has recently said that as Raju is a very influential person, it is not safe to keep him out on bail as he may influence the witnesses.

It may be noted here that Raju is accused of a scam which is worth over Rs. 14,000. Deputy inspector general of police V.V. Lakshmi Narayana has recently said that as Raju is very influential, he may influence witnesses involved in the case.

A new law, passed by the state legislature, has made the cigarettes dearer in New York. The step, which will force the smokers to dig but deeper in their pockets, was taken as an emergency step.

As per the reports, another $1.60 has been added to the existing price making the average price of cigarette packs shooting up to $9.20 across the US. For New York, the price is going to be even higher at $11.

This means that the taxes on the smokeless tobacco will more than double and will become $2 an ounce from the existing 96 cents an ounce.

Officials have said that about 200,000 adoptees in Illinois will have easier access to their birth certificates under a new state law.

The Chicago Tribune has reported that many of them will learn of the identity of their biological parents for the first time.

The measure, signed into law by Gov. Pat Quinn, enables people adopted before 1946 to file a written request with the vital records division of the Illinois Department of Public health.

A poll has indicated that nearly half of Canadians want to leave national abortion policy alone, but a third say they would like to see the debate reopened.

Conducted for Canwest News Service and Global Television, in the poll of 1,000 Canadians, 46 percent said the federal government should "leave things as they are," while 34 percent said the abortion issue should be reopened and 17 percent said they didn't care either way. Three percent declined to answer.

Court records have shown that the judge in Casey Anthony's Florida murder trial Tuesday denied Anthony's motion to remove the possibility of the death penalty.

The Orlando Sentinel has reported that Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. denied the defense team's motion to remove the death sentence based on gender bias.

Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia has been nominated as the 38th chief justice of the country.

The senior most judge of the Supreme Court was administered the oath of the office by President Pratibha Patil.

The 62-year-old Kapadia is known for his expertness in matters of tax, banking, industrial as well as labor policies.

Born Sep 29, 1947, Kapadia was recruited as an advocate in Sep 1974.

According to the reports, opponents of Arizona's strict new immigration law say they plan to challenge its constitutionality in court.

The Arizona Republic reported on Sunday that critics say the law would result in racial profiling, give the state immigration enforcement responsibility the Constitution says should be left to the federal government alone and possibly violate constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The new law of anti adulteration has made food adulteration a punishable offence. The victim can get a life imprisonment for any breach of the Act. Apart from that, the manufacturers may face fine up to Rs 10 Lakhs. This has been informed by the Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad.

During the Rajya Sabha question hour, he informed that the Act of Food Safety and Standards passed by the Parliament in 2006 will get into power in coming 3-4 months.