India

Remitting office on Wednesday — on his 65th birthday — Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai has batted for widening of the CAG’s jurisdiction by including local self-government bodies, public private partnership (PPP) projects and even government-aided NGOs within the ambit of its audit.

Upset at not being assigned a single ministerial berth in the newly elected chief minister Siddaramaiah’s cabinet, Congress members of the Karnataka Legislative Council (Upper House) arrived in Delhi on Sunday to plead their case with party chief Sonia Gandhi.

Manipur’s class XI student Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba becomes the youngest Indian to conquer Mt Everest as of now, according to Imphal based Manipur Mountaineering and Trekking Association(MMTA).

Zaibunissa Kazi, a convict in the March 1993 serial blasts case, surrendered in the Mumbai TADA court on Monday afternoon, three days after a judge issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against her.