Around 60 Air India flights were cancelled while several others delayed on the second day of the pilots' strike which continued despite the Delhi high court directing them to return to work.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh’s grievance cell is currently flooded with bizarre demands from a section of people, ranging from seeking sanction to drink liquor and smoke marijuana to finding a bride.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) met here on Thursday with its chairman Murli Manohar Joshi saying the report on 2G spectrum scam was on agenda and will be discussed on merit.

A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on Centre’s curative petition for review of the top court’s 1996 verdict diluting the charges against Union Carbide India Ltd top brass, including its chairman Keshub Mahindra, resulting in their getting away with lighter punishment of two years last year.

Flyers on Thursday bore the brunt of the strike by Air India pilots with some complaining that they were not informed about the status of their flights and some coming to know about the cancelled flights only after reaching the airport.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday, set the stage for another face-off between the Congress and the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party when he made an unscheduled visit to the office of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) here to inquire about the financial irregularities that were responsible for the murders of two chief medical officers posted in the department.

US Ambassador Timothy Roemer on Thursday announced his resignation from the key diplomatic post citing personal commitments.

Harvard scholar Lobsang Sangay was on Wednesday elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile and will take over the political duties relinquished by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on a petition challenging amendment in BCCI regulation to exclude IPL and T-20 tournaments from its purview and referred the matter to the chief justice for allocating it to a larger bench.

Four people were killed and over 20 others injured on Wednesday as the police fired at a rampaging mob protesting against the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in the coal city of Dhanbad in eastern Jharkhand. Curfew was clamped on the city in the evening as the police feared violent retaliations from the people.