India is expected to receive normal monsoon for the third consecutive year, Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced here on Thursday. The June-September rainfall is expected to be 99 percent of the long-term average, Deshmukh told a press conference here.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has condoled the death of Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, saying the State has lost a generous and charismatic leader.

Union Minister and Mumbai Cricket Association president Vilasrao Deshmukh on Saturday said here that the decision to ban actor Shahrukh Khan from entering Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium for five years had been conveyed to BCCI, and "let it consider it".

In fresh trouble for Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, an affidavit filed in the Bombay High Court alleges that he might own two flats through proxies in the scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society here.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plans to examine Union Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in Mumbai's Adarsh Housing Society scandal, an official said on Tuesday.

The judicial panel probing the Adarsh Housing Society scam on Wednesday summoned two former chief ministers of Maharashtra to appear before it next month. While Vilasrao Deshmukh has been asked to appear before the panel June 21 and 22, Sushilkumar Shinde has been summoned June 25 and 26.

The CBI probing the Adarsh housing society scam has informed the Bombay High Court that it is thoroughly investigating the allegations made against Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde by a social activist based on the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan was among 13 people chargesheeted by CBI on Wednesday in the multi-crore Adarsh Housing scam.

The CBI is likely to file its first chargesheet in the Adarsh Housing scam on Tuesday against some of the members of the upscale society, 18 months after a case was registered in this connection.

Another Union Minister from Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh, has been questioned by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore rupees Adarsh Housing scam, as he had dealt with files pertaining to the society during his tenure as Chief Minister of the state.