MUMBAI - The Bombay High Court Saturday stayed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) disciplinary committees proceedings against suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi, saying that the panel did not have the BCCI general bodys mandate.

RAIPUR - A day has passed since life imprisonment has been pronounced to rights activist Binayak Sen along with Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal and businessman Piyush Guha, but Chhattisgarh's lawyers and politicians are silent on the subject.

PANAJI - A ribbon-wrapped copy of the Right To Information Act (RTI) Act - that's one Christmas gift Goa Governor S.S. Sidhu might not forget for a long while.

SHIMLA - Himachal Pradesh is all set to empower women at the grassroots level by electing only women to around 13,000 seats in panchayati raj institutions (PRIs), the village-level third tier of governance.