The Supreme Court on Monday took cognisance of former Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh’s petition on “cash-for-vote” scam and issued notices to the Centre and Delhi police seeking a status report on the FIR registered after the 2008 confidence vote by the Manmohan Singh government and progress of investigation made so far.

Bihar government on Tuesday gave a go ahead to the guidelines framed for new chief minister area development scheme in place of the scrapped MLAs, MLCs local area development fund scheme.

The Supreme Court on Monday sought a status report from the Union government on the action taken against Parliamentarians for allegedly attempting to bribe BJP MPs during the trust vote faced by the UPA government in July 2008.

The Delhi high court on Monday asked striking Air India pilots to take a decision on resume work, saying "this strike will not see another day."

Civil society members of the joint drafting committee for the Lokpal Bill on Monday submitted two documents to the government outlining "principles and objects" for the proposed legislation.

The Delhi high court on Monday sought the assistance of a city government dispensary for taking blood samples of veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari and a 31-year-old youth for their DNA test to ascertain the youth's paternity.

Karmapa Ugyen Thinley Dorje, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, on Monday rubbished allegations that he was a Chinese spy and expressed readiness to make clarification to any government official in this regard.

General Motors India on Monday reported 5.19 per cent decline in sales in April, 2011 at 10,050 as compared to the same month in 2010.

India on Monday gave final clearance to South Korean giant POSCO's proposed $12 billion steel plant in a deal seen as a test of the country's openness to foreign investment.

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden may have been killed near a Pakistani military establishment in Abbottabad but it will not be of major help to India which is pursuing extradition of masterminds of several terror attacks, including the 26/11 Mumbai strikes, say security experts.