Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Shekhar Tiwari and 10 others were convicted by a trial court on Friday for lynching a PWD engineer, Manoj Gupta, in Aurraiya in December 2008.

The 10-day-old Air India domestic pilots’ strike was finally called off Friday night after prolonged negotiations between the striking pilots and the civil aviation ministry, even as the tough stand taken by civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi and the pressure exerted by the government on the pilots seems to have paid off. Top government

The Delhi government on Thursday approved a proposal to provide medical facilities to former MLAs, treating them at par with sitting legislators.