Former PM Dr. Manmohan Singh cremated with full state honours
The HinduFormer Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s funeral was held at Nigambodh Ghat, a public cremation ground, with full state honours on Saturday. Before Singh’s mortal remains were consigned to flames, the security forces fired three volleys from small arms and the buglers sounded the “Last Post” as a mark of honour for the former Prime Minister. IPS officers team, comprising women only, to probe Anna University sexual assault case: Madras High Court The Madras High Court on Saturday constituted an all-woman team of Indian Police Service officers to investigate the Anna University sexual assault case and another case registered by the cyber crime police to probe the leak of the First Information Report pertaining to the sexual assault. The top court on January 27, held a special sitting after taking cognisance of an order passed by a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court that termed as “illegal” a division bench order in a case of alleged irregularities in admission of MBBS students in West Bengal’s state-run medical colleges and hospitals.