A city Delhi court on Friday rejected the bail pleas of the four youth arrested in connection with the murder of NRI student Anmol Sarna.

The police on Friday arrested three persons in connection with selling LSD to the friends of the deceased 21-year-old NRI student Anmol Sarna.

The UPA government and the Congress on Friday virtually ruled out going back on the issue of creating a separate Telangana state.

The Samajwadi Party and Bhartiya Janata Party members almost came to blows in the UP assembly on Friday after a senior minister rebuked a BJP legislator.

The CBI on Friday closed the disproportionate assets case against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, citing lack of evidence. The clean chit to Mr Yadav in the six-year-old case comes at a time when the SP government in Uttar Pradesh is facing severe criticism for failing to contain Muzaffarnagar riots.

India and the US are close to inking a preliminary contract in connection with the proposed construction of six nuclear reactors by an American company in Mithi Virdi in Gujarat.

With the arrest of BJP MLA Suresh Rana for making “hate speeches” which led to the Muzaffarnagar riots, the saffron outfit is now expected to make a strong pitch to consolidate the Jat and Hindu votebank by playing its tried and tested Hindutva card.

The Mumbai police crime branch will file an 11,609-page chargesheet in the Indian Premier League scandal on Saturday. The police claims it has made a watertight case against the 22 arrested accused, including CSK team principal Gurunath Meiyappan and actor Vindoo Dara Singh, as 80 per cent of their evidence is technical evidence that will stand strong scrutiny in court.

In a surprise move that sent the markets and analysts into a tizzy, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan raised the repo rate by a quarter per cent, signalling a high interest rate regime. He said this was a mere 0.5 per cent of the total borrowings of banks.

After the ambassadors of the European countries hosted a lunch for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, they invited Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday during which the senior JD(U) leader is said to have showcased his secular credentials.