The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the CBI on a plea by Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel and Ravikant Ruia of Essar challenging their summoning before the 2G special court in the spectrum allocation scam of 2002.

Under Opposition attack over the CBI affidavit on the coal scam issue, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar on Friday said he had done “no wrong” and got support from the government which ruled out his resignation.

The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital today rose to 290, as rescuers looked for last survivors under tonnes of debris at suburban Savar

CBI director Ranjit Sinha Friday defended his meeting with Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V. Narayanasamy the previous evening, saying it was a "routine meeting".

Long before twin bombs rocked the Boston Marathon, the trajectories of the suspects' lives had already made them susceptible to radicalized ideology that could turn violent, psychology and terrorism experts have said.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath Friday said there was no question of the resignation of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced Friday that Takehiko Nakao has been unanimously elected as president by its Board of Governors.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday said linking the Chinese incursion into Ladakh with the region's tourism prospects would not be right.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan Friday granted to investigators custody of former president Pervez Musharraf in the assassination case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, lawyers said.

The toll in the building that collapsed Wednesday in the outskirts of this Bangladesh capital rose to 274 Friday, police said.