Overwhelmed by the prospect of having to face byelections, more legislators left the camp of YSR Congress leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, refusing to vote against the government during Monday’s vote on the Telugu Desam-sponsored no-confidence motion.

The UPCC is gearing up for a hard task this week. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Lucknow on December 7 and 8 on a special mission. He will neither undertake a road show and nor will he address any rally. Mr Gandhi will simply interact with the Assembly candidates on a one-to-one basis and take stock of poll preparations.

The Punjab government is going all out and doing everything to woo voters before reaching the finishing line of its term. The state is raining sops for government employees, religious monuments are being dedicated to public and mega-industrial project are being approved like never before.

On a day when Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought his intervention on the Mullaperiyar dam imbroglio, the AIADMK MPs too met Dr Singh and alleged that Kerala was resorting to create a fear psychosis in the minds of the public through the media over the

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy meets state MPs protesting over Mullaperiyar dam issue at Parliament House in New Delhi on Friday. — Pritam Bandyopadhyay

The Delhi high court on Friday quashed a trial court order summoning the DDA vice-chairman to depose before it in a 16-year-old case against the housing body’s officials for their alleged role in illegal allotment of government land to a private firm.

Considering that there was no criminal background of a youth held guilty of attempting to rape a woman, a city court sentenced him to two years in jail for an offence that entails a minimum jail term of seven years.

The Delhi high court on Friday rejected a plea accusing Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIU) of discrimination by adopting different criteria for promoting students pursuing professional courses in colleges run by it and those from institutions affiliated to it.

Indian-born British writer Sir Salman Rushdie is once again in a controversy: he has been accused of unchivalrous behaviour by first wooing, then dumping a New York socialite on Facebook.

A man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a city court for seeking to escape punishment in several criminal cases by portraying himself as dead by burning alive a vagabond and placing own clothes on the charred body.