In today’s scenario, the last thing a politician wants is to be branded “sexist” for his remarks, especially when the leader’s party is headed by a woman. While Congress president Sonia Gandhi may decide to let the matter go, Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat is facing flak from all directions at home for his remarks on Saturday that “women should not pursue politics”.

This time the patch-up between the warring Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil is for real, if only partial, even though the contentious issue of gas allocation and price is yet to be discussed.

With Bihar’s caste cauldron already getting politically spiced up ahead of the Assembly polls, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is busy appeasing his core caste constituency of Yadavs, who had largely shifted allegiance to the ruling JD(U)-BJP in recent years to deliver successive electoral jolts to the RJD.

B. Suresh-trained First Emperor, ridden by C. Velu, won the Madras Race Club Cup, the main event of the races held here on Sunday.

Moves are afoot between the Maharashtra Congress and the Shiv Sena-BJP to ensure that there is no contest for the six Rajya Sabha and 10 Legislative Council seats whose elections will be held next month. This is because major political parties can ensure victory of their candidates without a fight.

Don Valentino and Icebreaker impressed when the following horses were exercised on the trial track here on Sunday.

It will be the first press conference that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be addressing in the last four years. It will also mark his first interaction with the national media during the tenure of United Progressive Alliance-2, which completed its first year in office just a day ago.

Irfan Ghatala-trained Sun Kingdom, ably ridden by Suraj Narredu, bagged the Juvenile Million, the highlight of the races held here on Sunday.

The Delhi cabinet is likely to take up the issue of increasing the registration fee for different categories of vehicles on Monday.
The proposal, about which the government had informed during the budget, is aimed at creating different slabs of registration fees for different kinds of vehicles. The cars i

Canada is “reviewing the situation” arising from the denial of immigration visa to an Indian national, whose story was published by many newspapers here on Saturday.