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UPA constituent Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal, which has been demanding a special package, on Wednesday did not get any assurance from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who said he could not give preferential treatment to the state even though he himself belongs to it.

A special CBI court has extended by 14 days the judicial custody of former Uttar Pradesh health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and eight others, arrested for their alleged roles in the multi-crore NRHM scam.

A year after she stormed to power in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa still enjoys wide support in the state. But the number of critics is rising too.

A Delhi court on Tuesday sought CBI's response to a plea by veteran Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case accused, asking if witnesses can be confronted with their affidavits submitted to commission set up to examine riot cases.

Five persons, including a CPI (M) local committee member, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T P Chandrasekharan, police said.

Returning home after 20 years though for a brief period, Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisti on Tuesday thanked the Indian judiciary and people for their support and said he will return to India as ordered by the Supreme Court.

Backing his party colleague A Raja, prime accused in 2G spectrum scam, DMK Chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday expressed happiness over his securing bail.

Defying security measures, the Maoists went on a poster campaign at Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Koraput district of Odisha ahead of their nationwide bandh on Wednesday.

As former telecom minister A Raja secured bail in the 2G spectrum case, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said the case appeared to be getting "diluted".

Karnataka High Court on Tuesday stayed for three weeks the proceedings against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala Natarajan in the disproportionate assets case against them in a court here.