Upset over the freeze in payment by India of the next instalment of money as part of the `3,546 crore-deal for the procurement of 12 AW-101 helicopters for VVIP use, Italian-owned UK-based company Agusta Westland may examine its legal options and could even drag the ministry of defence (MoD) to court, government sources said on Friday.

In the wake of SC slamming the Centre for not helping CBI with documents in the coalgate probe, the coal ministry on Friday informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it is trying to locate the lost and missing files on coal block allocation.

The ministry of science and technology is planning to make it mandatory for the private sector to disclose expenditure on research and development, according to a policy paper released on Friday.

In another setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta HC on Friday asked it to explain why it failed to execute the court order to provide adequate security to panchayat election candidates and stop the terror of motorcycle brigade of the Trinamul Congress workers.

The monsoons coupled with high tide, unleashed its fury again on Friday, delaying trains and halting traffic across Mumbai through the day.

A college girl, aged about 20, was gangraped and then set on fire by six in Ekdil area in Etawah district on Thursday.

Shedding their fears, the people of the three districts of the Jangalmahal — Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore — which were till recently Maoist strongholds, voted zealously till the early hours, pushing the average poll percentage to beyond 86 per cent.

A little over five months after the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) made public the photographs of the four wanted accused in the triple blasts that took place on July 13, 2011, they have received well over 150 phone calls from various places across the city and rural parts, claiming to have information on the dreaded terrorists.

Surya Kumar Bose, the grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, on Friday said that a group of Netaji’s admirers in Japan will launch an international campaign demanding declassification of documents relating to his disappearance in 1945.

Acting on a PIL, the Bombay high court on Friday asked whether the state knew what our national anthem was. The court was hearing a PIL on the state textbooks that have misspelled “Sindh” as “Sindhu” in the national anthem, in the Class 10 and 12 state board textbooks.