Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Sunday claimed that he liked “realistic depiction of village life” in Amir Khan’s home production Peepli Live. However, he said it would have been better if the filmmaker had chosen a subject other than farmers’ suicide.

Even as the RJD and the Congress have stepped up their attacks on the BJP on the issue of communalism and “saffron terrorism,” the BJP leadership in Bihar is ignoring such attacks and focusing on how to convert the public goodwill for its coalition government’s development work into votes.

The controversial Ayodhya issue is all set to dominate the national discourse, once again, very soon as a special bench of the Allahabad high court is to deliver a verdict over the ownership of a disputed land in Ayodhya to which Hindus and Muslims have made rival claims for over a century.

The MCD will not be taking care of preventive measures for mosquito breeding in the Common-wealth Games Village for which the organising committee has decided to give the contract to the Pest Control of India (PCI). However, the MCD will work towards mosquito breeding prevention in and around all other Games venues. Meanwhile, the total number of dengue cases in the capital crossed the 800-mark, including cases of patients coming from outside the state.

The Delhi high court has asked the authorities concerned to amend certain rules for the rehabilitation of ex-convicts so that they can join government jobs and join the mainstream.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday called for the building of a “Maa Mati Manush Brigade” comprising students to counter the harmad (musclemen) vahini of the CPI(M) and to help out people in distress.

In an unprecedented attack, four Seema-Andhra lecturers were injured when students of the Osmania University Joint Action Committee (OUJAC) descended on the B.Ed spot evaluation centre on the campus on Saturday and thrashed lecturers who had come to evaluate answer scripts.

Heavy incessant rains in Delhi and the subsequent flooding of the Yamuna accompanied by release of water into the river from Haryana pose a threat to the Common-wealth Games with many projects already missing their deadlines due to it. The city authorities have been taking the rain and flood excuse for the delay in several projects.

Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, which met here on Thursday, ordered a major reshuffle in both police and administration, shifting about 30 senior officials from their present responsibilities.

The Parliament gherao by hundreds of farmers led by the RLD chief Ajit Singh on Thursday saw leaders of both the Left and the right, the BJP, coming together to champion the cause of the agitating farmers. All the leaders cutting across the party lines demand from the government to bring a new law on land acquisition.