Government on Friday said the verdict in the Tahawwur Rana case in a US court, holding the Pakistani-Canadian not guilty for the Mumbai attacks, is not a setback as India does not rely overtly on prosecution of terror suspects in other countries.

Noted painter M.F. Husain, who was living in self-imposed exile due to reported threat from some right-wing Hindu outfits over his controversial paintings of the Hindu gods and goddesses, faced a large number of cases across the country.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, accused in the 2G spectrum case, on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking bail.

On the day M.F. Husain died, two of his paintings went under the hammer at Christie’s in London, amid expectations worldwide, and heightened in India, that the death will now increase the value of his works.
The expectations were both belied and fulfilled at Christie’s auction in London on Thursday. Lot-116, Sita with the

Industrial production registered a growth of 6.3 per cent in April as per the new series that was released today with a base year of 2004-05, but the slowdown of the economy was clear as factory output nosedived to just 4.4 per cent as per the old series.

The government rode its luck in dealing with the yoga manipulator Ramdev and is lucky to have come through, if a little bruised. But its first instincts in dealing with Ramdev were unbecoming and worrisome. The Manmohan regime could scrape through this past week only because the yoga teacher rapidly revealed his true colours.

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will meet yoga guru Baba Ramdev in Haridwar and persuade him to end his fast because of his deteriorating heath condition, an official said on Friday.

A special court in Etah district has awarded death sentence to 10 persons in a case related to honour killing. A fine of `10,000 has also been imposed by the court on each of the accused

The family of a former sarpanch who was brutally done to death on Tuesday morning has charged Haryana’s transport minister Om Prakash Jain and chief parliamentary secretary Zile Ram Sharma of ordering the killing.

As part of its probe into alleged irregularities into the conduct of the Commonwealth Games, the CBI on Wednesday registered an FIR against several accused persons, including former officials of the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), for the alleged award of a broadcast network contract at an exorbitant rate of `570.12 crores to a Noida-based private firm.