Once marginalised by his party, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi appears to have bounced back with his party planning to make him its most visible face in the run-up to next year’s Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. The party has chalked out a comprehensive plan to shortly launch its “Mission UP” with putting on the fore front Dr Joshi’s exploits as the chairman of the PAC.

The civil aviation ministry will put in place an inquiry committee to probe the crash of the Pawan Hans copter that carried the Arunachal Pradesh chief minister and others, even as a report of the parliamentary standing committee on transport said pilots flying VIPs are often “put under pressure” to take off with minor defects and adverse weather conditions in their helicopters and recommended that the government penalise those asking them to do so.

Confirming the death of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu, home minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said the state governor has been asked to take "necessary consequential steps", an indication that a new chief minister will be chosen.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the 2G Spectrum scam, will begin the process of attachment of properties allegedly acquired by two telecom companies, chargesheeted by the CBI, from next week. The total cost of the illegally acquired properties is expected to be around `5,742 crores.

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed displeasure over the tardy pace of probe by the Income Tax department into the tax evasion cases linked to 2G spectrum case, saying it wanted "results".

The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday again came under the Supreme Court attack for doubling the recruitment of “ill-trained” special police officials for counter-Maoist operations on the face of allegations that they were responsible for recent attacks on some tribal villages.

Fighting the Congress in the family pocket-borough of Kadapa in prestigious by-elections, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy today ruled out going back to the party, saying he cannot "throw his core values" for the sake of "power and position".

Security has been beefed up in Tihar’s Jail Number 1 after former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi was taken in a 14-day judicial custody.

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In anticipation of what could happen on May 6, when she appears before the CBI court in connection with the 2G scam, DMK Rajya Sabha MP and the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s daughter Kanimozhi landed in Delhi on Wednesday. Her husband Aravindan and son Aditya accompanied her to the capital. She is all set to be joined by her mother Rajathi Ammal late in the night.