The Congress has virtually blamed the DMK for the drubbing in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections. It wants to have another look at the strategy in the southern state and feels the party must not lose its vote bank due to the mistakes of its coalition partners.

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Friday said India was capable of meeting any threat (including any nuclear threat from Pakistan) and added that India is aware of the fact that Pakistan is strengthening its nuclear arsenal.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah’s security was breached on Friday when a police constable breaking the security cordon tried to move towards him raising slogans as the former was about to board the state helicopter after attending a function in RS Pura in Jammu district.

The Madhya Pradesh anti-terrorism squad (ATS), which has been involved in grilling the Indian Mujahideen-Simi activists arrested earlier June, have succeeded in recovering from them 6.20 kg of gold looted from the Manappuram gold loan finance company’s office in the state capital in August 2010.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar on Friday became the first accused in the 2G spectrum case to approach the Supreme Court for bail even as the top court is yet to give its final verdict on the monitoring of the multi-million rupees scam.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, whose fast against corruption entered its seventh day on Friday, is being taken to Dehradun for a check-up after his health deteriorated, said an aide.

The high-level committee headed by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman to suggest ways to strengthen the country’s laws in order to curb the generation of black money discussed on Thursday the possibility of declaring tax evasion a criminal offence.

A CBI court on Friday framed charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against Rupam Pathak, a school teacher accused of stabbing a BJP legislator to death in January.

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has demanded that the Himachal Pradesh government revoke its recent lease of 28 acres of prime land to Baba Ramdev.

After his recent visit to Bhutan, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will undertake a “goodwill” tour of China from June 12.