Maharashtra deputy chief minister R.R. Patil Tuesday evening said the state government will call for the tapes of speeches of actress and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray before taking further steps

Justice and Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici will be considering whether to retain the government's policy to ban the media from detention centres.

China has agreed to loosen controls on financial news providers in an out-of-court settlement of a dispute with the United State, the European Union and Canada.

Rochesterians are almost evenly divided about the wisdom of the federal government's multi-billion-dollar intervention in the ailing U.S. economy, according to a poll commissioned by the Democrat and Chronicle and two media partners.

Zimbabwe has lifted a pre-election ban on charities involved in food distribution and AIDS treatment, state media said Wednesday, but NGOs said the move will have little effect.