Onion prices, already ruling high, is now poised for a further hike after the Azadpur Mandi traders gave an indefinite strike call from Wednesday even though the Delhi government rushed in with the threat to impose Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against agitating traders. The Mother Dairy outlets on Tuesday failed to sell onions at Rs 35 a kg, with Nafed accusing it of not lifting the onions from the Azadpur Mandi.

Pressing on with his new broadside against the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP Coalition, former chief minister and Punjab Congress chief Capt. Amarinder Singh on Tuesday charged the government of trying to take credit for infrastructure projects planned and initiated under Congress rule.

Soon after the directive issued by the Supreme Court on the deemed university issue, Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said the ministry will issue showcause notices to all deemed universities. He also assured that a decision in each case will be taken within the stipulated timeframe. “Now that

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi admitted on Tuesday that he may not have reached where he has and may have still been struggling as an ordinary Congress worker if he had not been the son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Former Congress MP Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday dared the Congress to take up the gauntlet by declaring that the Kiran Kumar Reddy-led Andhra Pradesh government will collapse if his supporters in the legislature withdrew support. The Congress, however, has dismissed his challenge as “illusion”.

The Congress on Tuesday lashed out at the Comptroller and Auditor General over its handling of the report on the 2G spectrum issue, accusing it of violating canons of parliamentary propriety.

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has launched a frontal attack on the BJP and its senior leaders saying former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani has no moral right to criticise UPA chairperson Soina Gandhi. “Whenever the BJP faces infighting, it always raise issues like Bofors,” says Mr Gehlot.

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A clean image and professional calibre could be the main criteria for induction into the Union Cabinet, which could be reshuffled any time after Makar Sankranti on January 14.

The praises for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s good governance and his weekly meetings with the people resonating in neighbouring Jharkhand resulted in a tribal woman alleging harassment by the Jharkhand police approaching him on Monday to seek his help.