In a bid to silence their adversaries on the issue of transparency, the anti-graft group under the banner of India Against Corruption, on Thursday made public the income and expenditure of the Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF), which has been functioning as the secretariat for the campaign.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Friday said that his government "respects" the Supreme Court's decision of granting bail to activist Binayak Sen, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for sedition by Chhatisgarh high court.

UP chief minister Mayawati’s elephant now has a new opponent in the electoral arena — a road roller that will be driven by Dalbara Singh, brother of late Kanshi Ram.
Mr Singh has floated a new party called Bahujan Sangharsh Party that has the same acronym, BSP, as Ms Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party.

Hours after the Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen convicted for helping Naxalites, law minister M. Veerappa Moily on Friday dubbed sedition laws as "outdated" and said he would ask the Law Commission to study the issue.

Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Thursday criticised the “political forces” for defaming his nation-wide movement, and claimed that they are afraid of the Jan Lokpal Bill that would expose their corruptions.

The tenure of Prasar Bharati chairperson Mrinal Pandey has been extended by three years.

Unlike most of the party colleagues, who had gone hammer and tongs against Kerala chief minister V.S. Achutanandan for his “Amul Baby” remark against AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday twitted he did not find the remark insulting.

The joint committee for drafting the anti-graft Lokpal Bill will hold its first meeting here on Saturday, government sources said.

It is not going to be a smooth ride for chief minister Prithviraj Chavan in the byelections for a legislative council seat, with the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance deciding to field a candidate against the CM. The EC issued a notification for the byelection, which is expected to be held on May 5 and the result announced on the same day.

Hitting at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for taking swipe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not voting in the just-concluded Assembly elections in Assam, the Congress on Thursday said, he was habitual of raising issues which are completely “devoid of substance”.