After the UK refused to deport Vijay Mallya on 11 May, and instead asked India to seek his extradition, the Enforcement Directorate has written to Interpol on 12 May, requesting that a Red Corner Notice be issued against him.

Issuing a Red Corner Notice will necessitate Mallya's immediate arrest or detention across the world. The request for the Red Corner notice has been forwarded on the grounds that the liquor baron has a pending non-bailable arrest warrant against him, and his passport has been revoked due to non-compliance with the agency's three summons to appear for questioning under the Prevention of Money laundering Act, 2002.

Britain refused to deport Mallya despite India's requests, on grounds that he has valid documents.

Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar has been elected unopposed as independent ICC Chairman on 12 May. The newly-elected chairman of the cricket body has said he is hopeful about shaping the "future of cricket". "Look forward to working with all stakeholders to shape the future of cricket, which has a proud history and rich tradition," ANI quoted Shashank Manohar. He had resigned as President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on 10 May.

Sources had claimed that Manohar resigned so he could compete for the post of independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Reports also added that Manohar was "keen" for a full term as ICC chairman as the current term is about to expire.

Women's rights activist Trupti Desai entered Mumbai's Haji Ali Dargah at 6 am today, accompanied by policemen and other activists.

However, she did not attempt to enter the sanctum sanctorum to which women are not allowed. "I prayed that women be allowed to enter the inner sanctum," Desai said after her visit.

Desai and her activist group Bhumata Brigade has been on a mission to get equal rights of worship for women at religious places were women are traditionally not permitted to enter, according to NDTV.

After nearly a month in 'protective' police custody, the schoolgirl in Handwara whose alleged molestation by an Army man had set off violent protests across Kashmir, firing by security forces and the death of five people, was released on Tuesday.

The girl had been in police custody since 12 April, according to The Telegraph.

Rights activist Khurram Parvez said: "The girl was released last night but her parents still submitted an affidavit today in which they iterated that they never sought police protection for the girl..." He added: "The girl... said she would reveal the facts (of what actually happened on 12 April) before the court."

Given the political clout and muscle power of the family of Rocky Yadav who killed Gaya student Aditya Sachdev in an incident of road rage on Sunday, the four witnesses to the shooting and members of their families are scared of reprisals for recording their statements.

Rocky Yadav is the son of muscleman Bindeshwari Prasad Yadav alias Bindi Yadav and Manorama Devi, a (now suspended) JDU legislator.

The witnesses seldom step out of their homes, except to visit the court, says The Telegraph.

Eight jawans from the Aizawl-based 39th battalion of Assam Rifles who had been involved in a highway gold robbery, told police interrogators that their now suspended commanding officer, Col Jasjit Singh, had offered each one a bribe of Rs 70,000 to 1 lakh to keep silent.

Mizoram director-general of police Lalthianghlima Pachuau said the jawans had confessed to the robbery and told the police that they had given the gold bars to Col Singh on 15 December.

Col Singh and eight jawans had been arrested in Aizawl on 6 May for allegedly stealing a consignment of smuggled gold bars 14 December last year, according to The Telegraph.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Centre that it had to act in any situation of drought, even if state governments maintained an "ostrich-like attitude" to the crisis.

A bench of justice MB Lokur and justice NV Ramana directed the Centre to revise its seven-year-old guidebook on droughts, declaring that under the Disaster Management Act, the "buck eventually stops" with the Centre.

The bench was delivering the first part of its verdict on a petition by NGO Swaraj Abhiyan that sought standard guidelines for declaring a drought. The second part of the verdict is likely to be delivered on Friday, according to the Hindustan Times.

More than 20 children of KPS School were seriously injured when their school bus was hit head-on by a speeding truck on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway at Barnoti on Wednesday.

The students were rushed to the Kathua district hospital, where their condition is said to be stable, according to ANI.

The police have filed a case against the truck driver, who is absconding.