Janata Dal supremo and former Prime Minister Deve Gowda on Friday demanded the resignation of Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and allow the judicial inquiry ordered to be conducted in a free and fair manner. Even as he welcomed the decision of Mr Yeddyurappa to order a probe into the denotification that covers the last 16 years, he also demanded the inclusion of the Bengaluru-Mysore corridor project into the ambit of the inquiry.

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee once again skipped the three-day CPI(M) central committee which began here on Friday. Mr Bhattacharjee has been irregular in attending the politburo and CC meets of the party following his reported differences with the party general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat.

Additional sessions judge (ASJ) J.R. Aryan on Friday granted bail to an accused in the Nitish Katara murder case for performing the last rites of his mother.
Granting interim bail to Sukhdev Pehalwan, for four days from November 24 to 27 for performing the “shradh” of his mother who passed away on November 10 at his native place in UP, the ASJ said, the Hindu customs require the presence of the son during “shradh”.

A photography exhibition, “Raja Deen Dayal: The Studio Archives from the IGNCA Collection”, showcasing a cross-section of the 19th century photographer’s reflection on India’s cultural heritage got underway at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in the city from Friday.

A gang of assailants barged into a senior citizen’s northwest Delhi residence on Thursday night, tied him with ropes, gagged him and slit his throat before decamping with his car.

A Kolkata court on Friday directed the police to incorporate abetment to suicide charges against the principal and three teachers of La Martiniere for Boys over the death of Rouvanjit Rawla.

In a daylight burglary in north-west Delhi’s Ashok Vihar area, unidentified robbers barged into the house of a businessman and decamped with cash and jewellery worth around `20 lakhs on Thursday afternoon.

Twelve people — 11 from the Air Force and an Army lieutenant-colonel, were killed Friday as an IAF Mi-17 helicopter crashed following a blast on board near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. The dead include two IAF flight lieutenants.

Even as the relief and rescue operations at the Lalita Park building collapse site completed on Friday evening, the MCD has decided to give more time to its vigilance department for completing an inquiry into the incident. Meanwhile, a team of officials of the MCD on Friday went to the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, for discussions on the structural safety survey that is to be conducted in three months.

India on Friday summoned Tehran’s acting ambassador to convey its deep disappointment over supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “unpalatable” remarks on Kashmir. New Delhi also broke with tradition and abstained from voting on a UNGA resolution critical of the human rights situation in Iran. India has voted against the resolution in the past, and sought to explain its abstention in New York on Thursday by citing the remarks on Kashmir.