The BJP on Wednesday said its government in Gujarat will bring in the Lokpal Bill in the state Assembly, provided the Opposition Congress puts its weight behind the move.

Disregarding hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah’s boycott call, Kashmiris, including women in large numbers, turned up at the polling booths on Wednesday to vote in the first phase of panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The polls are being held for the first time in more than a decade in the state.

The Left parties on Wednesday alleged connivance of “local” police officials with Trinamul cadres in certain areas and sought the intervention of the Election Commission to ensure free and fair assembly polls in West Bengal.

The Election Commission and the income-tax department have seized a total of `54.17 crores “unaccounted money” so far in the run-up to the elections in Tamil Nadu, the Election Commission said on Wednesday.

Calling her statement an 'absolutely lie', agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday rubbished corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's claim that he pursued the issue of spectrum with former communications minister A. Raja.

The main Opposition BJP on Wednesday asked government to build pressure on Pakistan on the issue of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, especially in the wake of revelation made by accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana. The party asked the government not to hold talks with Pakistan till it takes “credible action” to prevent terrorism from its soil targeted against India. The Congress, meanwhile, criticised the BJP and said it should introspect about its own track record.

The young athlete, who lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers, on Thursday demanded government job saying that a "small compensation" will not help her even as railways ordered a high-level probe into the incident.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna insisted on Wednesday that dialogue with Pakistan will continue in spite of the disclosures made by a Canadian newspaper, which published certain Unites States court documents in which Rana has claimed that he was working for the ISI.

India on Thursday said there was no dilution in its position that all those responsible for the Mumbai terror attack should be brought to justice expeditiously and the on-going dialogue with Pakistan will seek to address the country's terrorism-related concerns.

The CBI probe into the 2G spectrum scam has established that former telecom minister A. Raja and former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura allegedly brushed aside the legal position and the mandate of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), while awarding Unified Access Service (UAS) licence to the new service providers with an intention to benefit a few telecom companies.