Both the Congress and the NCP on Friday tried to scotch the rumours that agriculture, food and consumer affairs minister Sharad Pawar’s wings would be clipped in the next Cabinet reshuffle by asking him to shed his ministerial responsibility in the wake of his taking over as the International Cricket Council (ICC) president.

Reliance Power and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL), both part of the Anil Ambani Group, are considering a merger. Both the companies have a board meeting on July 4 to consider merging RNRL into Reliance Power. The swap ratio and other details haven’t been announced yet. The combined market capitalisation of the two firms was over Rs 52,000 crore on Friday.

The National Advisory Council headed by Sonia Gandhi hotly debated the universalisation of entitlement with some of the members opposing the proposal on Thursday.
While the majority were in favour of the idea, some of the members cited arranging adequate supply of foodgrains and managing huge finances as implementation b

Bike-borne robbers struck in an east Delhi locality on Thursday afternoon by targeting a 66-year-old advocate, who was assaulted and robbed of cash worth lakhs of rupees.

Dubbing the move of the Uttar Pradesh government to create a new district carved out of Mr Rahul Gandhi’s constituency “unacceptable”, the Congress on Thursday said Amethi will always remain intrinsically connected to the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Two months after charges were framed against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, a Delhi court on Thursday decided to frame charges against him in another anti-Sikh riots case.

National security adviser Shivshankar Menon will visit China for four days, from July 3 to 6, in his capacity as special envoy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He will hold talks with state councillor Dai Bingguo, China’s special representative for the Sino-Indian boundary talks.

The Maharashtra Congress on Thursday urged the Centre to make wheat available to the aam aadmi at an uniform price across the country while demanding changes in the wheat supply policy.

With the first quarter of FY11 just over, markets have now started looking ahead to Q1 results. Technology major Infosys will be the first major player off the mark as usual, on July 13. There are some positive expectations from the Indian IT biggies this time, as results of US firms indicate that tech spending is recovering. The negative impact of the Eurozone crisis is expected to be limited.

The Delhi high court on Thursday directed former defence minister George Fernandes’ wife to produce the 80-year-old leader before it on Monday to ascertain what the ailing leader wants before deciding on a dispute between her and his brothers.