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The Gujarat High Court Friday rejected the plea of Akshardham terror attack accused Shaukatullah Ghauri that two prosecution witnesses be also treated as accused.

No more capitation fees, the government said Friday as it proposed punishment for educational institutes found fleecing students in the guise of hidden costs during admission and the management could also face jail.

A one-day study tour to London was converted to a 10-day jaunt to European countries in 2006 by some Meghalaya legislators who produced "fake and inflated" bills for the trip that eventually cost the government Rs.1.67 crore, a report said Friday.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla Friday presented a tax free Rs.3,577.92 crore budget for 2010-11 with a deficit of Rs.26.3 crore, which gives priority to the development of agriculture and agro-based activities.

Delhi should focus on being the Asian capital of sports and work towards bidding for the Olympic Games, V.K. Verma, director general of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, said Friday.

Sports Minister M.S. Gill and former union ministers Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Ashwini Kumar were among the five candidates elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab Friday.

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Pulling up a trial court judge, the Delhi High Court Friday said he had not followed the due process of law before awarding life imprisonment to a convict and that he had repeated the mistake for the 11th time.

The temperature soared to the season's highest of 41.5 degrees Celsius in this Orissa capital Friday, an official said.

Maoist terror threats have held up road laying work under a central government scheme in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, with only one road of the 50 sanctioned being completed, a minister said Friday.