Saturday, December 11, 2010, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

SC refuses to expunge remark on Allahabad HC
New Delhi, December 10
The Supreme Court today rejected the Allahabad High Court’s plea to expunge the remark that something was “rotten” about it, clarifying that the SC had not “painted everyone with the same brush” and had, in fact, made a clear distinction between corrupt and honest judges. “It is nowhere mentioned” (in the November 26 Supreme Court order) that “all judges of the HC are corrupt. 

Bar hails it, judges anguished

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Nobel Peace prize for jailed Chinese dissident

Chairman of Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland looks at the reserved vacant chair of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo ( portrait at left ), on which Jagland placed the Nobel Peace Prize diploma and gold medal during the ceremony for the Nobel Laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo at the city hall in Oslo on Friday. — AFP 

PPSC scam 
8 yrs later, HC gives 17 PCS judicial officers their jobs back
Chandigarh, December 10
The 12-year-old controversy shrouding the appointment, termination and reinstatement of 31 PCS (Judicial) officers has come to an end, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court issuing the posting orders. In all, posting orders have been issued to 17 officers. It is believed some of the officers have during the period got selected elsewhere.

Govt suspected Radia of spying for foreign agencies
New Delhi, December 10
The Income-Tax Department today informed the Supreme Court that some of the conversations corporate lobbyist Niira Radia had with journalists, industrialists and politicians were ‘quite sensitive’ and were shared with the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

US regrets Indian envoy's frisking
Washington, December 10
Amid an uproar over the "pat down" screening of Indian ambassador Meera Shankar at a US airport, Washington has reached out to her and promised to see what could be done to prevent such incidents."We obviously are concerned about it," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday as India reacted strongly to Shankar being pulled out of an airport security line for a pat down in Mississippi despite being told of her diplomatic status.

A 5-0 whitewash Indian players pose with the trophy during the prize distribution ceremony after the final ODI against New Zealand in Chennai on Friday. Chasing a target of 104 runs, India won the match by eight wickets and the five-match ODI series 5-0. — AFP

Oppn, green brigade slam Ramesh’s U-turn
New Delhi, December 10
Complimented for forceful environment activism and taking green laws’ violators to task at home, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh came under attack from not just from Opposition but also his traditional fan club of Green NGOs for indicating a radical change in India’s established stand on climate change at Cancun. “Either the minister feels he is too clever by half or that the nation is incapable of comprehending his volte face,” senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said.