Nalhati is a non-descript small town in Birbhum district but it has emerged as one of the most important Assembly constituencies in the state because of the presence of Abhijit Mukherjee, who is making his debut in electoral politics. Fifty-year-old Mukherjee is the eldest son of the Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. Till last month,

Upping the ante against Tamil Nadu state Congress president K.V. Thangabalu, Union shipping minister G.K. Vasan on Monday called on party supremo Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi and sought to persuade them to remove Mr Thangabalu from the president ship of the state unit. A few days back Union home minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram too made a similar request to Mrs Gandhi.

The city police on Tuesday told a Delhi court that it was still probing the sedition case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for making alleged anti-India speeches in 2010.

Chief electoral officer of Assam Hemanta Narzary here on Monday said that the use of technology has helped the commission in conducting free and fair polling in Assam.

Suggesting that there could be a conspiracy behind the anti-nuclear power project agitation in Jaitapur, Congress on Tuesday cautioned people against "attempts by forces inimical to India's economic growth".

Home minister P. Chidambaram is all set to campaign for the Congress-Trinamul alliance in West Bengal next week. Government sources said that Mr Chidambaram has shared a set of dates around April 24 and 26, with Congress general secretary in charge of West Bengal, Shakeel Ahmed, and may soon be travelling to the Marxist bastion to participate in the electoral campaign.

Aviation regulator DGCA, which has come under the scanner over the fake pilot licenses issue, has stripped one of its top officials off his responsibilities following charges against him of influencing an airline to employ his daughter, who had failed pilot test.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred its hearing on the issue of legalisation and decriminalisation of gay sex among consenting adults in private.

The government on Tuesday notified its decision to allow five lakh tonnes of sugar exports, nearly a month after its approval by the panel of ministers.