The condition of national-level volleyball player Arunima Sinha alias Sonu, who lost her left leg after being pushed out of a speeding train, is stable, doctors at AIIMS where she is undergoing treatment said on Tuesday.

A day after Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan put the onus of the “controversial” CD on the Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, the expelled Samajwadi Party leader on Monday hit back and said that the social activist could be the real mastermind of the CD controversy. He also went on to charge that “the Bhushans had amassed assets worth `175 crores after they started filing public interest litigations”.

India and Pakistan are likely to resume defence secretary-level talks in May where they will discuss a number of issues including demilitarisation of the world’s highest battlefield — Siachen Glacier, and Sir Creek.

Condemning the police firing on people protesting the construction of the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the CPI(M) on Tuesday demanded an immediate halt to the project.

Nalhati is a non-descript small town in Birbhum district but it has emerged as one of the most important Assembly constituencies in the state because of the presence of Abhijit Mukherjee, who is making his debut in electoral politics. Fifty-year-old Mukherjee is the eldest son of the Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. Till last month,

Upping the ante against Tamil Nadu state Congress president K.V. Thangabalu, Union shipping minister G.K. Vasan on Monday called on party supremo Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi and sought to persuade them to remove Mr Thangabalu from the president ship of the state unit. A few days back Union home minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram too made a similar request to Mrs Gandhi.

The city police on Tuesday told a Delhi court that it was still probing the sedition case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for making alleged anti-India speeches in 2010.

Chief electoral officer of Assam Hemanta Narzary here on Monday said that the use of technology has helped the commission in conducting free and fair polling in Assam.

Suggesting that there could be a conspiracy behind the anti-nuclear power project agitation in Jaitapur, Congress on Tuesday cautioned people against "attempts by forces inimical to India's economic growth".