Union minister for development of Northeast B.K. Handique on Wednesday said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may arrive in Itanagar to pay their last respects to Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu.

The late chief minister Dorjee Khandu was the sixth chief minister of the state who first took over the office on April 9, 2007, replacing the powerful Gegong Apang, who had ruled the state for 23 years.

Soon after the death of Dorjee Khandu in a copter crash was confirmed, hectic lobbying started in frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, with powerful lobbies of industrialists and a section of bureaucrats pushing the name of Nabam Tuki, PCC president and PWD minister, for the chief minister’s post.

Air India cancelled 11 flights from Kolkata as the strike by the airline's pilots continued for the eighth day on Wednesday, an official said.

Over 3,000 rescue workers, which included mountaineers of specialised forces of the Army, ITBP and CRPF, engaged in tracing the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu on Tuesday, the fourth consecutive day, failed to reach three possible locations where Sukhoi jets and Isro satellites have found “metallic traces” in the hills of the frontier state.

The fourth phase of the six-phased Assembly elections went off peacefully with over 85 per cent of the voters exercising their franchise in 63 constituencies in Howrah, Hooghly, East Midnapore and Burdwan. No person was killed or injured in any poll-related violence and 68 persons were arrested, including 67 people who were taken

The BJP is now making a conscious effort to win over dalits.

Indian Against Corruption (IAC), the movement led by activist Anna Hazare, has asked UP chief minister Mayawati to announce that Uttar Pradesh would be the first state to adopt the Lokpal Bill once it

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday sought to take the war of words over party funds to the CPI(M) camp stating that the Left party had hundreds of crores of rupees and is among the four

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday criticised chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s demand for a judicial inquiry into the Purulia arms drop case.
“I am amazed that such a furore is being raised over the allegation made by an accused,” he said.