A court here on Tuesday deferred to May 7 its order on the bail plea of Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa, who is among the 14 people arrested in the case relating to the allocation of 2G spectrum.

There was no immediate relief on Monday to Reddy brothers’ Obulapuram Mining Company from the Supreme Court a plea to allow it to sell 2.5 lakh tonnees of iron ore extracted from three mines in Andhra Pradesh for payment of income-tax arrears worth `149 crores raised on the mining operations since 2008.

Two persons, including an Army jawan were killed and a BSF jawan injured in three separate blasts in Jammu, Samba and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Supreme Court on Monday took cognisance of former Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh’s petition on “cash-for-vote” scam and issued notices to the Centre and Delhi police seeking a status report on the FIR registered after the 2008 confidence vote by the Manmohan Singh government and progress of investigation made so far.

Bihar government on Tuesday gave a go ahead to the guidelines framed for new chief minister area development scheme in place of the scrapped MLAs, MLCs local area development fund scheme.

The anxiety churning in 19-year-old Mohan Kumar Ram, a dalit student of B.Sc. first year, over the acutely dismal electricity scenario in Saran district is more refined than in Mohammad Roushan, 45, who runs a small tent-house business. But they all feel the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme (RGRES) has drastically failed to deliver in power-starved Bihar.

The investigating officer probing the Kolhapur police training school sex scandal has dismissed allegations of exploitation of women recruits there, saying that "only one" rape case has been reported so far.

The centres where the AIEEE exams were cancelled on Sunday will hold exams on May 11, the Central Board of Secondary Education sources have said.
Earlier, the CBSE had notified the centres to hold the exams along with AFMC exams on May 8. “The exam will now be held on May 11 as several entrance exams in the

Syed Ali Geelani, who heads the hardline faction of Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Hurriyat Conference, is the only leader to condemn the US operation to kill al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar appears to be in no hurry to decide whether the “document” submitted by PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi is the report of the prestigious committee that went into the 2G spectrum scam.