West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee would visit this steel city to campaign for her party candidate contesting the July 1 Jamshedpur parliamentary by-elections.

Citing its failure to employ local information technology and biotechnology professionals, the Punjab Government has issued a termination notice to Omaxe Ltd. on their flagship, 60-acre IT and Biotech venture in Patiala.

India’s oldest prisoner Brij Bihari Pandey has been freed from a jail here at the age of 108, having spent 24 years behind bars for committing multiple murders.

Amid no clear consensus emerging on the proposed Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, the Central government is likely to move an “open ended” draft legislation in the Monsoon Session of the Parliament.

Breaking new ground, President Pratibha Patil has decided to declare her assets soon. This is the first time that the President of the country will be making assets public although there is no law that mandates her to do it.

The Centre on Friday decided to declare 135-km stretch between Gomukh and Uttarkashi along River Bhagirathi as an “eco-sensitive” zone, prohibiting Uttarakhand Government from setting up any power plant with capacity of more than 25 MW and carrying out mining there.

The Uttar Pradesh government, on Friday, filed the status report on investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur district before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
The court has fixed July 4 as the next date of hearing.

A day after Delhi witnessed squalls and rains, the met office on Saturday again predicted light rains towards the evening.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Friday accused policemen of raping and killing the Lakhimpur teenager, even as the Uttar Pradesh government filed a status report before the Allahabad high court on the CB-CID probe into the incident.

With the issue of bringing Prime Minister within the ambit of the Lokpal remaining a ticklish affair, government is expected to soon call an all-party meeting to seek views across the political spectrum.