CHANDIGARH - Upset over the manner in which the Punjab Information Commission works, a group of Right to Information (RTI) activists here is all set to bring out a book highlighting a hundred of its "ridiculous" decisions. The chief information commissioner has refuted their charges.

NEW DELHI - Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan Tuesday demanded the removal of former chief justice K.G. Balakrishnan as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the wake of the controversy involving the spectacular increase in the assets of his son-in-law, P.V. Srinijan.

GANDHINAGAR - The Nanavati-Mehta commission probing the 2002 Godhra train carnage and the communal riots that followed, Tuesday informed the Gujarat High Court that former state minister Gordhan Jhadapia was not summoned as a witness.

MUMBAI - The Bombay High Court Tuesday ordered the attachment of two properties of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt over a financial row with producer Shakeel Noorani, lawyers said.

SHIMLA - Himachal Pradesh is considering making vulgar telephone calls a cognisable offence, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said here Tuesday.