BJP leader Rajnath Singh and SP leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Mohan Singh were detained by the police along with their supporters when they tried to proceed towards Greater Noida where prohibitory orders are in force since Saturday’s violence.

The situation was on Tuesday tense but under control in parts of western UP hit by farmers' unrest over land acquisition as police released sketches of 24 trouble-makers who incited violence in Agra and maintained a strict vigil.

After converting a petition filed by the pilots’ union into a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench comprising Justices Vikramajit Sen and Siddharth Mridul of the Delhi high court on Monday decided to look into the problems faced by Air India which led to a strike by its pilots recently saying it is a matter of public interest which the nation wants to know.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday assured a delegation of Rashtriya Lok Dal leaders that government will move the crucial bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act in the coming session of Parliament, its leader Ajit Singh said.

Ms Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi, may not appear personally before the ED, which is also probing 2G spectrum scam, on May 13. The DMK Rajya Sabha MP, Ms Kanimozhi, may send her representative or lawyer to the ED in view of her regular presence required before a special CBI court, hearing the 2G scam case.

UPA government is trying to make the PAC a "puppet" in its hands and divide it on party lines when the mandate of the panel is to be bipartisan, Murli Manohar Joshi, chairperson of the parliamentary committee that examined the 2G spectrum scam, on Tuesday said.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the Madras high court order restraining sacked Tamil Nadu Bar Council chairman R.K. Chandramohan from functioning even as a member of the body after his re-election recently.

A Kashmiri Pandit woman who won the panchayat elections in North Kashmir's Baramulla district said her victory is a message to other Pandit families to return to the Valley they left two decades ago.

Justice Ajit Bharihoke of the Delhi high court on Monday reserved its order on the bail pleas of five corporate bigwigs, allegedly involved in the 2G spectrum scam case, after the Central Bureau of Investigation’s special public prosecutor U.U. Lalit, along with the counsel for defence concluded their arguments in the case.

Under pressure from different quarters, the Aligarh Muslim University authorities today decided to prepone the reopening of the varsity by three days.