The relentless furore in both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday over the missing files on coal block allocations scuttled the government’s attempt to push through the UPA’s ambitious National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha. The bill is now expected to be taken up in the Lower House only on Thursday.

The CBI on Tuesday maintained that the coal ministry refused to respond to the request of the agency made in May for information about the missing files related to the Coalgate scam.

A Facebook friend allegedly raped a Jaipur-based girl in Kota on Sunday night. The accused, Manish Saini, who is a software engineer, raped the victim and later handed her over to his friend to rape her. The police in Kota launched a manhunt to arrest Manish and his friend Nandkishore, an engineer student.

Manuel Pellegrini’s Manchester City revolution got off to the perfect start as 10-man Newcastle were crushed 4-0 at Eastlands on Monday.

Top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative and “bomb expert” Abdul Karim Tnnda, who was produced in a magistrate’s court on Tuesday, was remanded to a further four days in police custody.

A Delhi court has cleared the judicial requests of the CBI to be sent to the UK,
Italy and Tunisia for seeking details of certain companies based there as part of agency’s probe into Rs 3,600 crore AugustaWestland helicopter deal.

A youth on Tuesday allegedly raped an eight-year-old girl and later strangled her to death at a city slum here. According to the relatives of the victim, the youth came to the Saliasahi slum in the morning and asked the girl to help him identify a particular person’s house in the locality.

Indian badminton star Saina Nehwal has lashed out at Hyderabad Hotshots team-mate and former world champion Taufik Hidayat over his comments criticising the auction process of the inaugural Indian Badminton League.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for his role in the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto. She was killed in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi.
“The court has indicted seven accused, including Pervez Musharraf, in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case”, a court official said.

Top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Abdul Karim Tunda, in a startling disclosure during custodial interrogation, has told a joint team of the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi police special cell that Pakistan Army commandos had indeed been training militants of both the Lashkar and the Jaish-e-Mohammed at camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir so that they could be inducted into the “border area teams” of the Pakistan Army.