The CBI, probing the Coalgate scam, suspects that around 157 private companies were allegedly eliminated irregularly to favour the ineligible beneficiary companies in the allocation of captive coal blocks.

Reliance ADA Group chairman Anil Ambani failed to get any relief on Wednesday against the summons issued to him for appearance before a trial court here on Thursday to depose as a prosecution witness in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. The Supreme Court declined to stay the summons following which the special CBI court conducting the trial dismissed the plea seeking that the date of his deposition be postponed.

The Pakistan Army and its elite intelligence unit, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is mounting pressure on Indian militants holed up in Pakistan to either step up their terror activities against India or leave their country. This startling revelation has been made by Abdul Karim Tunda, the key Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative, who is being interrogated by multiple security agencies.

The UPA government has decided to set up a 20-member committee to make in-depth analysis of the reasons for backlog in filling up of reserved vacancies. The committee, headed by the secretary, ministry of social justice and empowerment, will suggest measures to enhance the employability of reserved category candidates.

A team of special officials of the Punjab police visited the Special Cell office of the Delhi police to question alleged LeT terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda in connection with a 2009 case in which the Punjab police recovered 10 kg explosive from a car.

The blame game continuing between the railways and the Bihar government over the train disaster in Khagaria turned unseemly on Wednesday with chief minister Nitish Kumar criticising minister of state for railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for putting a part of the responsibility on the state government.

Four police officials, including a deputy superintendent of police, were injured in an attack by illegal liquor smugglers in Hapur district late on Tuesday night.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against an IPS officer of Arunachal Pradesh for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

In the wake of the murder of Narendra Dabholkar, the Maharashtra government is now seriously considering to provide security to another anti-superstition crusader Shyam Manav, founder of the Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti, an organisation working for the eradication anti-superstition from society.

The hanging of two men scheduled to take place on Thursday in Belgaum in Karnataka was stayed on Wednesday by the Supreme Court which agreed to examine their petitions seeking commutation of capital punishment to life imprisonment on the ground that there was a delay of six years in rejection of their mercy pleas by the President.