Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi promised direct access to the party’s grassroots workers in his Lok Sabha constituency on Monday, returning to Uttar Pradesh for the first time after the party’s debacle in the assembly polls.
Sessions court rejects interim bail and sends dentist to Dasna jail; husband and other family members surround and console Nupur.
Monday morning's drama began at the CBI Special Judicial Magistrate (SJM) court in Ghaziabad where Aarushi Talwar's mother Nupur Talwar surrendered.
Monday saw unprecedented security at the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad even before the sessions court announced its order. Dasna jail authorities had made elaborate arrangements at women's barrack number 13, where Nupur is now lodged.
All through the day inside the court complex on Monday, Dr Nupur Talwar was seen reciting from a copy of Hanuman Chalisa.
The Noida police will probe allegations of illegally detaining an eight months old pregnant woman in a case of loot.

Bollywood playback singer Shaan will perform in the city this Saturday. He will belt out his best tracks at the Hindustan Times Noida First Celebrations, presented by Jaypee Greens.
The sole government hospital in Noida is running short of many vital life-saving drugs.
The sole government hospital in Noida is running short of many vital life-saving drugs.
The Noida entrepreneur association (NEA), an umbrella body of industries, and the federation of Noida RWAs (FONRWA) have said they will move court against the state government for non-appointment of a chief executive officer (CEO) at the Noida authority.
After being in the news for alleged gender bias, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has for the first time elected a woman to its influential teacher's association.
A 35-year-old woman was killed while scores of houses were gutted in fire that engulfed two villages of the district, police said today.
Uttar Pradesh government has warned government doctors against indulging in private practice after a health department probe revealed that many of them had not conducted any major surgery in government hospitals for the past five years.
In the wake of the objections raised by Deoband's Islamic seminary Darul Uloom and other Muslim organisations, a scholar of Meerut's Chaudhary Charan Singh University has offered not to conduct a research on the works of author Salman Rushdie.
An alphabet book says “B” is for bomb and “C” is for chaku (knife) and another has pictures of an inverted national flag. The books were not lifted from al Qaeda training camps, but the schools of Uttar Pradesh.