India's judicial system to be reformed - Moily

India would take measures to improve the quality of the judiciary by reforming the legal education system and making the country the most preferred destination for investors by setting up international arbitration courts with a mandate to dispose off any litigation within a year.

"The Government of India would like to improve quality of the judiciary through reforming the legal education. We need to make India the most preferred destination of investment," Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily said last night.

Moily, a former chief minister of Karnataka and Chairman of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission, said: "any investment above Rs five crore will be decided in commercial courts within a year."

Sahara to face disciplinary actions for placing Queen's Baton replica.

Sahara is in trouble for displaying a replica of the Queen's Baton for the Commonwealth Games in Lucknow on Saturday. The authorities plan to take legal action against company officials for disrespecting the baton, an official said.

After the customary run of the baton, it was taken to Rai Bareli. But some officials of Sahara displayed a replica at Sahara Shahr, the residence of Sahara India chairman Subroto Roy, in Gomti Nagar.

"Legal action would be taken against the Sahara officials for showing disrespect to the Queen's Baton and displaying it without permission," said Lucknow's district magistrate Anil Sagar.

Sonia asks Jaiswal to probe in Boy's death in Kanpur

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asked Minister of State for Coal, Statistics and Programme Implementation Sriprakash Jaiswal to make inquiries into the death of an 8-year-old Kanpur boy Aman Khan.

The parents have blamed Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's security for their son's demise and alleged that he died due to roadblocks erected during the Prime Minister's recent visit to Kanpur.

They claimed they were not allowed to take the shortest route to the hospital to give their son medical treatment on time.

Y.S.R. Jagan Mohan slams state Congress Leadership

Hitting out at the Congress leadership, party MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday alleged that Andhra Pradesh's ministers and legislators were being prevented from joining his yatra.

In the first open attack on the leadership since resuming his yatra on Thursday, the young MP claimed that ministers and legislators wanted to accompany him but were being prevented from doing so.

"What crime I have committed? I am asking you if it is justified to ask ministers and legislators not to accompany me," said Jagan, without naming Chief Minister K. Rosaiah, who asked his cabinet colleagues and legislators not to join the yatra.