The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has failed miserably in ensuring proper implementation of social and rural sector schemes, as the Planning Commission in one of its reports revealed that expenditure on UPA’s flagship programmes is “very slow” in the state.

Six renowned medical colleges recommended to be de-recognised by the Medical Council of India (MCI) are likely to get a respite from the health ministry. While, the regulatory body had recommended the Central government for initiating action for withdrawal of Letter of Permission (LOP) and recognition granted to these colleges after the MCI team observed serious irregularities in these colleges, it is expected that the health ministry may give them some scope for improvement to them.

Hitting out at the ruling Congress at the Centre for its attempt to “discredit” Narendra Modi-ruled Gujarat government by giving “wrong” figures and facts of the state, the Gujarat government claimed that the Congress was treating the state as “some enemy land.”

Eight of the nearly 20 men who allegedly abducted four tribal schoolgirls from their hostel and then gangraped them in Jharkhand’s Pakur district were arrested on Tuesday. The state government promised to take total responsibility for the four girls’ education and train them in self-defence.

In a bid to launch an aggressive add blitzkrieg ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the government is all set give its nod to a scheme worth `600 crore, which is being named as “Development Commun-ication and Information Dissemination for the 12th Plan”. Incidentally, out of the total budget for the entire 12th Five-Year Plan, about `350 crore would be spent during the current financial year.

In a shocking case of rape and sexual assault of five daughters over several years, a 62-year-old man and his wife have been arrested by the police in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. According to the victims, he did not even spare his four-year-old granddaughter.

In what is being viewed as the first movement forward into the Bodh Gaya serial bombing probe, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has released two sketches of a suspect who was dressed as a monk. The sketch has been prepared on basis of questioning of eyewitnesses and CCTV footage of the temple complex.

The government on Tuesday said it cannot disclose any information given by 26/11 terror attack convict David Headley owing to a pact with the US which gave the Indian agencies access to question him.

The Delhi police on Tuesday played audio intercepts of telephone calls in a court here to buttress its claim about the nexus between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal.

The Orissa police, which had on Sunday recovered few miniature idols, gold ingots weighing 1.12 kg, gemstones and `2 lakh cash from Mangalore temple theft accused father-in-law’s house, has stumbled upon 1 kg of more gold from his bank locker.