Hectic lobbying has begun for the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Council nominations in the Maharashtra Congress ahead of the elections next month.
While Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) spokesman K.L. Gidwani on Tuesday virtually announced his candidature for the Rajya Saha seat claiming that he could get 20 to 30 votes from the non-Congress parties if the leadership decides to contest a third seat.

The auction of the wireless broadband (BWA) is going strong. The second day of the auction, saw the value of a single pan-India BWA license jump by 82 per cent from the base price.
The bidding for BWA is going much more aggressively than 3G spectrum. There is still excess demand in 12 circles, with highest demand coming for the Delhi circle at 6. The price of a single p

Its differences with parent organisation RSS forced the BJP to change its stand on caste-based Census as the saffron party on Tuesday demanded an all-party meeting before taking a final decision on the issue. When asked to comment on differences between the RSS and BJP over the issue, party spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad

Investors seem to be rushing towards gold as markets flounder. On Tuesday, gold prices on the Multi Commodity Excha-nge touched Rs 18,560/10 grams, the highest ever. However, there may not be too much of an upside in the yellow metal this point on, unless things take a major turn for the worse.

Following are the acceptances for the races to be held here on Wednesday.
1. The Sondur Plate (for horses 5-year-old and above, rated 25 and below) 1400 metres, 2.30 pm: Dhanush 62.5, Nano Blue 62, Spark Of Symphony 60.5, New Pastures 5

Those who wait for cricket matches, be they Tests or ODIs have plenty of sites that they could log on to, to play their favourite game.

With questions being raised over the delay in clearing the mercy petition file of death row convict Afzal Guru, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said it took longer time to take a decision on the issue because of its sensitive nature.

Brunetta, Braavo and Cherelle impressed the most when the following horses were exercised on the trial track here on Monday.
Outer sand:

Andhra Pradesh chief minister K. Rosaiah on Monday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other central leaders of the party. In the meetings the chief minister discussed issues relating to Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for next month and sought greater central assistance for cyclone ravaged areas of the state.

The newly-elected Delhi mayor’s first meeting of the MCD House was marred by pandemonium and physical exchange of blows between the women councillors of the two main parties here on Monday.