Ashish Mukherjee With Inputs From Pti

• Coal scam: Ashwani Kumar need not resign, says Prime Minister

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there is no question of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar's resignation over a CBI affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court in the coal scam.

• Saradha workers file another police complaint against Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh

  Employees of Saradha group today filed a second police complaint against Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh, alleging that they are not been paid their salaries.

• Chit fund scam: Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh says he will quit Rajya Sabha if charges proved

  Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh, against whom Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen has made allegations, says he will quit from the Rajya Sabha if his involvement in the chit fund scam is proved.

• Deepak Bhardwaj: tycoon who nursed political ambitions

  Deepak Bhardwaj, the Bahujan Samaj Party leader shot dead at his farmhouse on the Delhi-Gurgaon border this morning, was a tycoon whose wealth had made him a talking point in the last Lok Sabha elections.

• Pervez Musharraf dismisses Taliban threat, set to return to Pakistan today

  Amid threats by the Taliban to kill him, Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf is scheduled to return to his home country from self-exile this afternoon and lead his party in the general elections less than two months away.

• Founder of orphanage near Mumbai sentenced to death for murder, sexual abuse of girls

  The founder of an orphanage near Mumbai was today sentenced to death by a local court, which held him guilty for the death of a differently abled teenage girl and sexual abuse of five others. Five employees of the institution were handed tough jail terms.

• Govt placates DMK over India's stand on resolution against Sri Lanka

  Union Minister V Narayanasamy today assured the DMK, which has threatened to pull out of the Manmohan Singh Cabinet, that India's stand on a US resolution against Sri Lanka would take note of the emotions of the people of Tamil Nadu.

• Police take man suspected to be Bitti Mohanty back to Kerala

  The Kerala police today flew a man it suspects to be Bitti Mohanty, a rape convict on the run for over six years, back to Kerala, from where he was arrested earlier this month and found to be allegedly living under a new identity.

• Congress govt in Andhra Pradesh wins no-confidence motion

  The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh led by Kiran Kumar Reddy late last night won a no-confidence motion moved by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS and supported by other opposition parties, including Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress.

• Jawan killed, 4 others injured in Manipur blast

  A jawan of the Assam Rifles was killed and four others were injured in a bomb blast in Manipur's Morel town today.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Home Minister reiterates there was no specific terror alert on Hyderabad

  The death toll in yesterday evening's two bomb blasts at Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar area has gone up to 15, with the death of a 23-year-old in hospital this morning; 119 people are injured. New details are also emerging from the investigation. Sources say wires of close-circuit-television cameras near the blast sites had been cut four days ago and th...