The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has exposed chinks in the Congress armour in Madhya Pradesh by not only retaining the Mandsaur and Shajapur nagar palikas (municipalities), but also wresting the Sehore nagar palika from the Congress.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday asked Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi to clarify the charges of RTI activist Akhil Gogoi or step down.
Addressing a large public rally of the NDA against corruption, Mr Gadkari started his speech by referring to his meeting with RTI activist Akhil Gogoi.
He said, “Mr Gogoi had come to meet me and showed me the photographs of houses owned by the chief minister’s family members in the US.”

The BJP national executive meeting, which concluded here on Sunday, resolved to intensify fight against corruption and price rise emerging as the twin challenges for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Three persons were injured in separate fire incidents in the capital in the last 24 hours. Three labourers suffered minor injuries when a fire broke out in a shoe factory at Ashok Vihar in northwest Delhi on Sunday morning.

A 22-year-old student allegedly committed suicide at his Mandawali residence on Saturday evening. The deceased, identified as Mani Shankar, a resident of Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh, was pursuing a diploma course in computer networking from a private institute.

Rohini Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) Dr Kamini Lau has directed the Haryana government to move 100 inmates of Hisar jail to a prison here following the transfer of their trial in a case related to attack on dalits allegedly by upper caste Hindus at Mirchpur village in April last year.

The chilling weather has at least been good for the excise department of the Delhi government, as the city recorded highest sales of liquor in the last month. A record sales of liquor worth `188 crores has been reported in the city in the month of December.

Failing to pay rent in time to his father landed a man in trouble, as Rohini Court additional rent controller Rakesh Kumar ordered him to vacate the flat he was using.
The court passed the eviction order against Rajender Singh, against whom his father, Jaswant Singh, moved the court pleading that he had rented it out to his son who had been defaulting in rent payment for over a decade.

The Delhi high court has ordered examination of documentary evidence against the Congress MLA from Model Town, Kanwar Karan Singh, in connection with a petition challenging his election in 2008 Assembly polls.

Delhi’s shivering cold on Sunday broke five year’s record, with the maximum temperature dipping by as much as 10 degrees below the normal to settle at 11 degrees Celsius, while icy winds forced the people to stay indoors on the weekend.