The Allahabad high court on Monday set aside the Uttar Pradesh government’s acquisition of 170 hectares of land for industrial development at Gulistan village in Greater Noida. The quashing of the move, seen as another blow to

The CBI officials have provided specific information related to bank account details of certain Mauritius-based companies, who are under the scanner of the agency in connection with the 2G spectrum scam probe, to the authorities concerned there during their recent visit to the tax haven.

The controversy stirred by Ms Sushma Swaraj’s revelations about the induction of the controversial Bellary brothers into the B.S. Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka has put the top BJP leadership in the dock. This has enthused the Congress party, which on Saturday stepped up its attack on the saffron party over Ms Swaraj washing her

In his first public comments on the DMK-Congress alliance after the arrest of Ms Kanimozhi, DMK MP and daughter of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, an UPA ally, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that “as of now the DMK is our partner and there is no change in it”.

To protest against the “misrule of the Mayawati government”, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided not to accept “state guest” status for the dignitaries who will be arriving in Lucknow for the party’s three-day national executive meeting that begins on June 3.

The failure to verify whether a robbery case accused was actually dead or was just trying to avoid appearance in the court proved costly for the station house officer (SHO) on whom a Delhi court has imposed a fine of `10,000 for the omission.

The Congress is predicting the BJP’s isolation over the proposed Communal Violence Bill, 2011. It feels that even regional parties in the NDA and outside cannot afford to back the stand of the saffron party on it.

St. Stephen’s College has defended its decision of removing MP Sandeep Dikshit from the governing body. The college said that Mr Dikshit never accepted the membership so they requested Justice Sanjay Krishan Kaul to be the member.

The main Opposition BJP on Friday claimed that the delay in taking a decision on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition is a “copybook example of votebank politics”. The party also demanded that Guru’s petition should be rejected at the earliest.

The Delhi police has reportedly picked up the main suspect in the Shobhit Modi murder case from Kusumpur Pahari near south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Friday.