While saying that the media has reported him “out of context”, the Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa on Thursday retracted from his statement made in a Delhi court that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should have been made a witness in the 2G spectrum case. Talking to the media, Shahid Balwa’s lawyer, Vijay Agarwal

Despite contempt notices by the Delhi high court, the strike by some 600 Air India pilots entered the third day on Friday, forcing at least 95 flights to be cancelled, even as grounded fliers faced steep fare hikes by other airlines.

The Enforcement Directorate, probing the 2G spectrum scam, has sought specific details about five companies allegedly floated by corporate lobbyist Niira Radia’s sister in British Virgin Islands.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to go into a batch of PILs challenging constitutional validity of the notification on composition of a committee to draft the Jan Lokpal Bill, saying the petitions were "premature".

The Samajwadi Party and BSP swung the number game in favour of the ruling coalition in the PAC meeting on Thursday on the back of a top Congress leader clinching their support in his parleys with the leadership of the two parties late evening on Wednesday.

The government on Friday allocated 19.63 lakh tonnes of sugar for sale in the open market as well as via ration shops for the month of May, marginally higher than the current month.

The brother of Karim Morani, Cineyug Films Pvt. Ltd (CFPL) founder and Bollywood producer, has told the CBI that his brother was authorised to take all the decisions and steps in respect of any kind of loan or investment in any company and his brother was not in the wrong side of the law.

In a reprieve for Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to quash a Karnataka high court order which had stayed criminal proceedings against him and his family members in a corruption case.

The virtual split of the Public Accounts Committee and election of Congress’ Saifuddin Soz as chairman by 11 of its members supporting ruling Congress-led coalition and they then passing a resolution rejecting the draft report on 2G scam prepared by its chief Murli Manohar Joshi has come for sharp criticism by the legal experts, saying the whole exercise goes against the parliamentary conventions.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the pre-impeachment probe by a Rajya Sabha-appointed panel into allegations of judicial misconduct and corruption against Sikkim high court chief justice P.D. Dinakaran.