With Assembly election fast approaching, senior leaders of the Congress and BJP are holding meetings on ticket distribution. Sources say both parties are worried about those MLAs who won last elections with thin margins.

If the BJP termed the bonhomie between its veteran leader L.K. Advani and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar at the National Integration Council meet on Monday as “established political protocol”, it surely raised many eyebrows in political circles.

Union minister and chairman Madhya Pradesh Congress campaign committee Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday launched the Congress party’s campaign for the coming state Assembly election by declaring a full-throated attack on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led state Bharatiya Janata Party government at a huge public rally at this district headquarters, which happens to be the parliamentary constituency of leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj.

Dale Steyn does not want the standoff between the BCCI and CSA to result in a curtailed series between India and South Africa later this year as the speedster says the two teams share a “great cricketing rivalry”.

An Ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from facing immediate disqualification was approved today by the Union Cabinet, in effect negating an order of the Supreme Court.

Jawaharlal Nehru University has decided to increase the number of women security guards on campus following the violent attack on a girl student by her classmate.

Telugu Desam Party supremo and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu on Monday walked out of the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting protesting against the decision of the UPA government in disallowing him to raise the issue of the bifurcation of his state.

Buoyed by three senior leaders — one each from JD(U), RJD and BSP — joining the BJP in Bihar on Monday, the saffron party renewed its attacks on chief minister Nitish Kumar on his flagship poll issue of special status for the state, saying it may reduce Bihar’s share in central grants.

With the Delhi High Court allowing the BCCI to conduct its Special General Meeting (SGM) in Chennai on Wednesday, the decks are cleared for the board to impose a possible life ban on former IPL chairman Lalit Modi for alleged financial irregularities while being at the helm of cash-rich league from 2008-2010.

Cases have been filed before a city court seeking prosecution of model-actor Shayan Munshi and ballistic expert Prem Kumar Manocha for allegedly resiling as prosecution witnesses in the sensational Jessica Lall murder case of 1999.