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New Delhi, Dec 13 - From grandeur to glamour, beauty to elegance -- the launch of the fourth season of dance reality show "Jhalak Dikhla Jaa" had everything.

Small screen Sunday night witnessed perhaps the first such mega opening show where Bollywood's "dreamgirl" Hema Malini, cabaret queen Helen and dancing star Govinda burnt the dance floor. Hindi film's original He-man Dharmendra's performance was the icing on the cake.

On Saturday the Army Chief General V. K. Singh dragged Five hundred and thirty-four cadets out of the Indian Military Academy here at the ceremonious parade.

The number of cadets who became officers was 518 and 12 joined Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force. From these 4 were from Bhutan.

The highest numbers of officers were from Uttar Pradesh. 58 cadets were from Uttarakhand and from Haryana, 47.

The cadets presented a guard of honour to the Former Gen. Singh who examined this. In addition they dropped flowers from the sky by help of the army helicopters. The conduit ceremony goes after.

In another try at taming the Right to Information Act, the government recently recommended in a notification that RTI applicants limit their application to only one subject and also restrict their query to just two-fifty words.

The citizens who enquire for information under the RTI act could also be charged the amount incurred by the public authority if equipment for gathering and providing information is required to be hired.

A Raja’s residence was raided by the CBI a few days ago with respect to the investigations of the 2G scam. The DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi was in a fix as he had been supporting him through the series of events as he has pressures from 2 sides in his family union minister MK Alagiri and deputy chief MK Stalin -and brothers Kalanidhi and Dayanidhi Maran.

On Saturday Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee alleged that there is no reason for alarm on the stock market reaction to an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report.

The report showed that there has been strategy in certain stocks. He told the media after having a meeting of the Income Tax Department in Mumbai that there is no cause for panic on the market reaction. This is because the market has become stable and it has increased by more than 200 points.

He assumed that Sebi is there to investigate stock market reaction and he is not tensed about for the cause.