Even as one controversy after another continues to haunt the Commonwealth Games, questions are now being asked as to what happened to the Apex Committee constituted to oversee the games. Pankaj Vohra reports.

With political parties supporting a caste census without jeopardising the integrity of the decennial headcount, the government is expected to link the caste count to collection of biometric details beginning later this year.

An aggressive BJP and the Left targeted Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in Parliament for her rally at Lalgarh and and asked why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was silent on the Railway Minister’s ‘hobnobbing’ with Left-wing extremists.