Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday said that the appointment of Prithviraj Chavan as Maharashtra chief minister indicates that all the Congress leaders in the state are corrupt.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to register a regular case in connection with the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam in a day or two.
Talking to this newspaper, Mr R.K. Gaur, Press Information Officer of the CBI, said, “A letter from defence ministry asking the CBI to conduct the probe has been received. The agency is in process of collection of relevant records and documents”. He, however, made it clear that the agency has not registered any case so far.

The issue of corruption, including alleged scam in the allocation of 2G Spectrum, continued to rock Parliament for the second consecutive day on Thursday leading to adjournment of both the Houses till November 15.

With just a few months left for the West Bengal Assembly elections, Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday to discuss not only the political situation in the state, but also the violence allegedly unleashed by the Left cadres in the state.

The government may be keen to see the controversial Land Acquisition Bill legislated into law by Parliament during the on-going Winter Session.
But the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress, for sure, will not allow this to happen given the party’s policy against any forcible land acquisition.

Ridiculing former RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan as an “archaeological creature in the Saffron camp”, the Congress on Thursday rejected his reported deregatory remarks on party president Sonia Gandhi with contempt and asked party men to stage protest against such comments with all the might they posses.

The stage has been cleared for the impeachment proceedings against Calcutta high court Justice Soumitra Sen in Parliament.
The first-ever impeachment initiated against a judge — V Ramaswami, who retired as an SC judge in 1994 — failed after the motion collapsed on the floor of the Lok Sabha in 1993 following abstentions by the Congress.

The new Maharashtra chief minister has managed to irk Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray even before his swearing-in. While speaking to news channels in Delhi, Mr Prithviraj Chavan inadvertently referred to Mumbai as “Bambai”. The MNS chief immediately announced that he would gift prayer beads to Mr Chavan for him to memorise the name Mumbai.

Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday welcomed Mr Prithviraj Chavan as the new Maharashtra chief minister. However, the Sena leader also cautioned Mr Chavan not to include any of the tainted ministers involved in the Adarsh Housing Society scam into his Cabinet.

Ajit Pawar, 51, is the NCP’s most aggressive leader. He is from the village of Katewadi in the Baramati taluka of Pune district and has been representing the Baramati Assembly constituency since 1991.