Katju on Modi

Bhopal, Dec. 23 (PTI): Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju today hit out at Narendra Modi, describing as “phoney” his claims of development and saying the state’s malnutrition stats were worse than Somalia’s.

Katju said the common man’s condition was “abysmal” in Gujarat.

Gupta case

New York (PTI): Goldman Sachs has told a US court that its former director Rajat Gupta should be ordered to reimburse the investment bank the $6.90 million spent on legal fees in his insider trading case.

Nurse probe

London (PTI): British police, probing nurse Jacintha Saldanha’s death after a hoax call, has passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service to review whether the two Australian DJs behind the prank had committed any offences.

Tigress dead

Jaipur (PTI): A tigress was found dead in the Ranthambore forests in Rajasthan on Sunday. Police attributed the death to a fight with another big cat.