Mounting pressure on the government to set up a special investigating team to probe the stashing of black money abroad, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Centre’s proposal to create an “in-house” body for better coordination among its different agencies, saying these agencies had been “sleeping” on the issue for more than two years.

The Delhi high court on Thursday deferred the bail plea hearing of five corporate honchos, accused in 2G spectrum scam case and arrested on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation, till April 26.

With demands being made by various quarters that they resign from the joint drafting committee of the Lokpal bill, the father-son duo of Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan had some civil society activists batting for them on Thursday who said there was no need for them to quit the joint drafting panel.

With the term of current Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament coming to an end and majority of its members opposed to looking further into the 2G spectrum allocation scam, its chief and senior BJP leader M. M. Joshi is now left with two options, either to submit a report before April 30 or to seek extension of the probe.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that corruption is an “impediment to faster growth” while admitting that there is a “growing feeling in the people that our laws, systems and procedures are not effective in dealing with corruption”.

Social activist Anna Hazare could be the next trarget after Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan and Justice Santosh Hegde with the Congress insiders questioning his presence in the 10-member Joint Drafting Committee set up to draft the Lokpal Bill.

In a setback to BJP especially Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Congress on Thursday won the maiden elections to the state capital Gandhinagar’s Municipal Corporation.

A first year engineering student was hospitalised after a brutal assault by four seniors as part of ragging at a government-run university campus here, police said on Friday.

As the tussle seeking disclosure of names of people who have stashed black money abroad continues in Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry says it has 'no authentic figures' about the quantum of money deposited in Swiss banks.

The committee that probed the Mangalore air crash last year was informed by a number of senior pilots that many of them (pilots) have taken a nap during flights or have seen other crew members dozing off for a while. Sleep for flight crew during flights is strictly prohibited under Indian aviation rules.