Trinamul Congress leader and minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy on Friday called on Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi and complained about “violence” being resorted to by CPI(M) cadres in Nandigram. Later, in the company of his colleague and minister of state for health and family welfare Dinesh Trivedi, he also called on Union home minister P. Chidambaram over the same issue.

Eight days after Gandhian Anna Hazare called off his fast demanding a stronger Lokpal law, the joint committee to draft the bill met here on Saturday for the first time amid a controversy over a CD allegedly involving eminent lawyer and panel co-chairman Shanti Bhushan.

The Enforcement Directorate will question Puducherry Lt governor Iqbal Singh and Uttar Pradesh principal secretary Vijay Shankar Pandey in connection with the passport procured by stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan and some investments done by him abroad.

A Sri Lanka cricket board demand that national players involved in the Indian Premier League (IPL) return to prepare for an England tour has reopened the long-running club versus country debate.

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.

It is not going to be a smooth ride for chief minister Prithviraj Chavan in the byelections for a legislative council seat, with the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance deciding to field a candidate against the CM. The EC issued a notification for the byelection, which is expected to be held on May 5 and the result announced on the same day.

Hitting at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for taking swipe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not voting in the just-concluded Assembly elections in Assam, the Congress on Thursday said, he was habitual of raising issues which are completely “devoid of substance”.

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.