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.

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned till Friday the bail plea of human rights activist Binayak Sen who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sedition and links with Maoists.

A decision to videograph the proceedings of the Joint Committee on Lokpal Bill as sought by Gandhian Anna Hazare has to taken by the drafting panel itself, its member Union minister Salman Khurshid said on Monday.

The Prime Minister's office has referred the Shunglu Committee findings on alleged irregularities in executing various infrastructure projects related to Commonwealth Games by Delhi government to the home ministry for further action.

Gandhian Anna Hazare on Monday said Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal should resign from the joint committee to draft the Lokpal Bill "if he feels nothing will happen" out of this institution.