A special court has ordered that Surender Koli, sentenced to death in sensational Nithari serial killings case, be hanged between May 24 and May 31 following which he has filed a mercy petition before the President.

Ministers, MPs and bureaucrats seem set to come under the purview of the proposed Lokpal with government and civil society members of the drafting committee expressing unanimity on their inclusion.

On May 13, when UP chief minister Mayawati completes four years in office — her longest-ever tenure in the post — she will announce projects worth over `1,000 crores for various sections of people in the state.

Like the earlier four phases, the fifth phase of the six-phased Assembly elections in West Bengal also went off peacefully with over 83 per cent of the voters exercising their franchise in 38 constituencies in Burdwan, West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia. No person was killed in any poll-related violence and 10 persons were arrested

Three chief ministers — N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Ashok Gehlot and Sheila Dikshit — on Saturday met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi separately against the backdrop of political developments in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.

Why is Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee so wary of the BJP? Why is she so relentlessly attacking it in every election rally? Why is she asking voters not to cast even a single vote in favour of the BJP?

Indian Institute of Management Lucknow set a record of sorts on Saturday when it organised a one-day coordinated and simultaneous worldwide meeting of the alumni at 10 locations — five in India and five abroad.

The Central Bureau of Investigation will question two senior Bharatiya Janata Party ministers to try and determine if they were the intended recipients of a `1.5-crore bribe intercepted during a dramatic entrapment that led to the arrest of chief parliamentary secretary Raj Khurana (also BJP) and an accomplice on Wednesday.

With having consensus on the two basic principles of transparency in selection process and autonomy, the joint Lokpal bill drafting committee agreed to move forward to resolve the two other contentious issues of bringing Prime Minister and judiciary in the ambit of the proposed legislation. The two sides — government and civil society members — decided to take up the issues at its fourth meeting scheduled for May 23.

The government had made it clear to the Air India domestic pilot union leaders that there was no question of agreeing to any extra interim financial benefits immediately and the futility of continuing the strike prompted the pilots to call off their 10 day-old strike as they resolved to “live to fight another day”. However, the government did tell