The Telangana Rashtra Samiti-BJP alliance swept the July 27 bypolls surfing atop a Telangana tsunami that completely drowned the Congress, including state party chief D. Srinivas, and the Telugu Desam, and has the potential to unfold the road map for the future of the region.

In the wake of the Chief Vigilance Commission pointing out large scale financial irregularities in the Commonwealth Games projects, the main Opposition BJP on Friday demanded a judicial inquiry in the matter after the sporting event gets over. The party claimed these findings by CVC has “shocked, disappointed and startled” people of

The Organisation Committee of the Commonweath Games 2010, headed by Mr Suresh Kalmadi, is heading for further trouble with the UK government writing to the Indian high commission in London seeking a probe into an alleged scam involving the CWG.

Karnataka high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, facing impeachment proceedings in Parliament following allegations of corruption and land grabbing, was on Friday transferred to Sikkim.

Terming the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as “not yet normal”, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said efforts are on to hold a “quiet dialogue” with all shades of opinion in the Valley.

The government and the Opposition managers, especially the BJP leaders, are working on a face saving draft to end the week-long deadlock over the price rise issue in Parliament.

The Press Council of India on Friday recommended amendment to election laws to declare any payment for publication of news as a corrupt practice. The PCI has also asked the Election Commission of India to set up a special cell to receive complaints about “paid news”.

Five political parties lost their status as state parties on Friday, according to the Election Commission. They are the Janata Dal (United), Samajwadi Party, Pattali Makkal Katchi, Marumalarch Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Arunachal Congress Party. Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal lost its status as a national party following its poor performance in the last Jharkhand elections.

It will take not five but around 20 years to make India slum free. The government on Friday admitted before the Parliament that the high-powered Deepak Parekh Committee, constituted to suggest guidelines for implementation of the ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), has recommended that the “duration of RAY should extend beyond five years to 20 years”. The government further said that based on the recommendations, the guidelines for the scheme are being revised.

The Gujarat CID crime has chargesheeted nine cops including three IPS officials D.G. Vanjara and Vipul Agarwal of Gujarat cadre and Dinesh M.N. of Rajasthan cadre in Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case. However, the state government’s CID has not named minister Amit Shah in the chargesheet. The CBI has arrested state minister for home Amit Shah in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.