The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the pre-impeachment probe by a Rajya Sabha-appointed panel into allegations of judicial misconduct and corruption against Sikkim high court chief justice P.D. Dinakaran.

Charging the Congress leadership with being “reluctant” to hold a “fair probe” into the 2G spectrum scam, Opposition members in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the “entire ruckus” witnessed in the committee meeting on Thursday was “managed” by the Congress top brass.

The Delhi high court on Friday refused to stay the Air India management order derecognising the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), which is spearheading the ongoing pilots' stir for pay parity.

The controversy over “legality” of adjourning a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament and its report on the 2G spectrum scam has reached the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar after the members of Congress and its allies and the Opposition raised this issue in the meeting which turned out to be “unprecedented and stormy” here on Thursday.

The CBI on Friday said there was no evidence linking any Indian politician or government agency with the Purulia arms drop case of 1995, dismissing claims of accused Kim Davy that the clandestine work was carried out by "political forces" at the Centre to destabilise the Left front government of West Bengal.

With the draft report of the Public Accounts Committee being leaked to the media before being discussed amongst its members, Union information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni on Thursday said that the government will find out how the draft report was leaked.

A day after a chaotic meeting of the Parliament's PAC, its chairperson Murli Manohar Joshi along with NDA, AIADMK, BJD and Left members are exploring the possibility of submitting the draft report on 2G scam to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar before its term expires on Saturday.

The entire Opposition, led by the BJP, reacted very strongly to the manner in which the ruling UPA “stage-managed” the proceedings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), calling it a mockery of parliamentary democracy. The Left, for its part, suggested that the confrontation within the PAC would have implications for the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) that is all set to probe the 2G scam.

A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of two top CWG organising committee officials arrested in connection with alleged irregularities in awarding a Rs 107 crores contract to a Swiss firm.

British arms major BAe Systems on Thursday opted out of India’s tender for 1,580 towed artillery guns with the deadline for submitting the bids coming to an end, a company official said here. The tender was issued on January 28 under the Indian Army’s `20,000 crores artillery guns modernisation programme that has been hit by