Tharoor ‘tweet’ earns rebuff from Krishna
Home Ministry will not budge on two-month gap
New Delhi, December 28
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor appears to be in trouble yet again for his “tweeting” habit. He was snubbed publicly by his senior and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna for his controversial remarks on the recent changes in the visa norms introduced by the government in the wake of sensational disclosures in the case pertaining to terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana.

Country needs Cong to overcome challenges: PM
New Delhi, December 28
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the country was facing “big challenges” like regionalism, terrorism, Maoist insurgency and communalism and the Congress alone had the capability of tackling all these.

Nation page: The grand old party looking for a makeover

All police complaints to be treated as FIRs
New Delhi, December 28
Faced with repeated public complaints about non-registration of cases by the police, the Home Ministry has decided to issue a circular to all states asking them to ensure that all complaints received at the police stations should be treated as FIRs.

Japan asks India to sign CTBT
Tokyo non-committal on civil nuclear cooperation
New Delhi, December 28
As the Prime Ministers of India and Japan held informal talks this evening on bilateral ties, Tokyo expressed the hope that India would sign the comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) while it remained non-committal on cooperating with New Delhi in the civil nuclear energy field.

From Russia with love
2,757-km oil pipeline to Asia-Pacific
Moscow, December 28
Russia, the world’s largest crude exporter, today launched a 2,757-kilometre “strategic” pipeline that will supply oil to energy-hungry China and the Asia-Pacific region in its bid to reduce dependency on problematic European markets.

Ruchika Case
PIL seeks action against school
Chandigarh,December 28
A public interest litigation(PIL) petition seeking, among others, action against the management of the city-based Sacred Heart School for having expelled, on flimsy grounds, a promising tennis player Ruchika in the wake of her molestation in 1990 by senior Haryana cadre IPS officer SPS Rathore, has been preferred in the Punjab and Haryana High Court here.

CBI officer’s revelation gives new twist to Rathore tale Charge of Abetment to Suicide Chandigarh, December 28 The revelation by a former CBI Joint Director RM Singh that former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore had managed to get the charge of abetment to suicide dropped from the CBI chargesheet by influencing his senior colleagues has added a new dimension to the controversy over the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. CBI officer tipped Prakash to fight his own battle