So far, all the government has said on the record is that China has "hindered" routine Indian patrolling. But the situation along the Line of Actual Control is clearly much more alarming.

If the NIA does not investigate Singh as a terrorist, which the J&K police said it would, it will severely dent the credibility of India's national security establishment.

The Delhi high court had given the CBI four months to complete the investigation. The deadline is September 30.

P. Chidambaram, Robert Vadra and D.K. Shivakumar have been interrogated by the ED more than a dozen times. But even then, come an election, the ED petitions for custody.

His tasteless attacks on the dead and his decision to field terror accused Pragya Thakur are testimony to just how toxic the BJP has become under Modi, and his consigliere, Amit Shah.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the Madhya Pradesh BJP unit are less than thrilled with their terror accused nominee.

Sources say that the Nirav Modi case is specially being monitored by the Prime Minister’s Office and Satyabrata Kumar was trying to resist a “serious political attempt to interfere in the case”.

The BJP founder and veteran won the Kanpur seat in 2014 with a record margin but his role as head of the Estimates Committee of parliament has irked the Modi-Shah duo.

Many serious cases of alleged corruption – the Rajan list of big loan defaulters, the 2G appeal and the Nirav Modi probe – are yet to catch the prime minister's fancy.

Vadra's hint that he could contest the Lok Sabha elections will be music to the BJP's ears and will buttress it allegations of corruption against the Gandhi family.

Modi says in an undated speech that he took out a yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir – a yatra that was actually Murli Manohar Joshi's.

Arun Jaitley asked the CBI to show “professionalism” in its investigations into former ICICI CEO Chanda Kochhar and others, and warned it not to indulge in “adventurism.”

By any yardstick, the gravity of his illness and length of absence should have been considered market-sensitive information and widely reported, at the very least by the pink press.

The Centre's reply to Shashi Tharoor's parliament question on high-profile bank fraud cases was 568 words long – but conveniently failed to share the names of the scamsters.

Under the constitutional framework, statutory committees are bipartisan and only accountable to parliament.

Modi is believed to be the first prime minister ever to take a seat inside the Chief Justice of India's court room.

Citing banking secrecy clauses, Modi government tells key panel it won't share information on action taken against names mentioned in the list Raghuram Rajan submitted in February 2015.

The men were apprehended by Verma's security detail in the early hours of Thursday and handed over to the police.

Verma, ousted in the early hours of Wednesday morning, has now moved the Supreme Court.

The buck stops with Narendra Modi, as the Department of Personnel & Training comes directly under the PMO.