The judiciary should not try to act as a super legislature, Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia said on Saturday. He also asked the political leadership to resist from giving protection to corrupt judges.

With the installation of instrument landing system at Ahirwan Airport here, the flight service on Kanpur-Kolkata route is set to start from April 27.

On Friday, when the Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen, a doctor who was sentenced to life for links with Maoists and disputed sedition charges, the members of the civil society while welcoming back Dr Sen to the “free world”, said they had every reason to believe that the bail will only “reach its logical end” and that Sen will finally be acquitted.

Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kantilal Bhuria on Saturday demanded that all allotments of land by the BJP government in the state to organisations run either by the ruling party or the RSS should be cancelled immediately.

The Friday’s verdict by Supreme Court granting bail to eminent civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen, has given hope to two other activists, Kolkata-based businessman Pijush Guha and Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal — both of whom are undergoing life sentence along with Dr Sen in Raipur Central jail after being convicted of sedition by a local court here on December 24.

Vice Admiral D.K. Joshi, the present Chief of the integrated staff committee, would now take over as the commander-in chief of the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command.

The Trinamul Congress supremo, Ms Mamata Banerjee’s move to not contest Assembly polls is proving costly for the Marxists in Bengal. While the face of the Marxists, West Bengal chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is virtually caged in his Jadavpur Assembly constituency, struggling to save his own berth, Ms Banerjee is all over the state touring and campaigning.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chhattisgarh trial court for sedition and helping Naxalites to set up a network to fight the state.

The CBI on Friday sought "detention" of five corporate executives chargesheeted by it for their alleged role in the 2G scam, saying that they might "abscond" and impede the trial.

Union minister and nationalconference President Farooq Abdullah was on Friday hospitalised after suffering a bout of vomiting.