Informing about Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s health condition, AIIMS director R.C. Deka said that “she had cough... She had headache. She took medicines after which she felt uneasiness in Parliament and that is why she was here. We put (her through) all the tests required for such diseases and we found her normal, and she has left in her own car talking to all the doctors, and thanking all of us.”

Mauni Maharaj, a seer from the Sri Paramhans Ashram in Amethi, was placed under house arrest on Tuesday along with his followers when he tried to leave for Ayodhya to take part in the VHP yatra, which has been banned by the UP government.

The court of additional district judge of Faizabad has issued a bailable warrant against UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, SP MLA Tej Narain Pandey and former Faizabad district magistrate Ajay Shukla in a case of property dispute.

The city of Amritsar has been donned with “missing” posters of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu. Residents of the city were taken by surprise when they woke up to “Missing Sidhu” posters pasted in the city.

The Lucknow bench Allahabad high court on Tuesday dismissed a writ petition seeking release of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders after the Uttar Pradesh government informed the court that all the VHP leaders detained during the 84-Kosi Parikrama yatra, in and around Ayodhya, had been released.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram said on Tuesday that the government had approved a raft of infrastructure projects worth `1.83 lakh crores in order to revive the investment cycle and restore investors’ confidence as the rupee fell to a new lifetime low.

Registering its biggest percentage fall in 18 years, the rupee plunged to a record low on Tuesday, slipping to below the 66-level mark against the US dollar on fears that rising global crude oil prices due to the simmering tension in West Asia would further inflate India’s high import bill.

The CBI, appearing to head for a direct confrontation with the Centre, contended before the Supreme Court on Tuesday that no prior government sanction was needed to prosecute bureaucrats in the coal block allocation scam, despite the government’s stand that its sanction is essential.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who fell ill in Parliament late Monday evening and was admitted to AIIMS, returned home early Tuesday morning after being discharged from the hospital. Many top leaders, including Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, wished her a speedy recovery.

Diesel prices could be hiked by a steep `3 to `5 per litre after Parliament’s Monsoon Session ends due to the rupee’s depreciation and a spike in global crude prices following the Syria crisis.