The Congress on Tuesday demanded a judicial inquiry into the death of a police officer who initially investigated the Banda rape case in which BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi is an accused.

Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Leader of Opposition in state Assembly got a major relief from the Supreme Court on Monday as it refused to intervene in the state HC order quashing the setting up of inquiry commission to probe corruption allegations against her.

The Supreme Court has granted 10 more weeks to the Centre to place its recommendations on the status of the 44 deemed varsities facing derecognition for failing to maintain proper academic standards.

Social activist Anna Hazare, who led a successful battle for constitution of a 10-member committee of ministers and civil society representatives towards the drafting of Lokpal bill, lashed out at HRD minister Kapil Sibal. “Why is he (Sibal) wasting his and our time? He should do other things for the country,” said Mr Hazare who left for his village Ralegaon Siddhi in Maharashtra on Monday.

With Bengal elections approaching and the Union government apprehending unprecedented violence, the CPI(Maoist) on Monday gave a call to boycott assembly elections in the state. While the CPI(M) had been consistently accusing the Trinamul Supremo, Ms Mamata Banerjee of her links with the naxalites, the rebels also pointed a finger at her and observed that her rule “is not going to be any different from that of the Marxists.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday left for China to attend the BRICS summit where he intends to discuss issues related to "fresh uncertainties" that have emerged in Gulf and North African countries and make a strong pitch for coordinated efforts on major issues like energy and food security.

In a bid to speed up its probe, the CVC has asked chief vigilance officers of government departments to prepare a list of officials who were allegedly involved in corruption while executing Commonwealth Games related projects.

The statements made by Congress leaders over the killing of a chief medical officer in Uttar Pradesh B.P. Singh are baseless and indicative of the party's "cheap thinking and opportunistic politics", the BSP has said.

Two new lines and extension of three existing lines of the Delhi Metro were approved Monday as the Delhi Cabinet cleared the revised Phase 3 proposals, at a cost of `30,000 crores. It will now be sent to the Group of Ministers handling the matter at the Centre.

A case has been registered against the present and former vice-chancellors of G.B. Pant University of agriculture and technology, besides five others for allegedly misappropriating funds of the varsity.