Using the occasion of B.R. Ambedkar's birth anniversary, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a swipe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not voting in the just concluded Assembly elections in Assam.

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, a known fighter against communalism and corruption, gives full credit to the RTI Act brought by the Manmohan Singh government for more exposes on corruption. He feels that the Lokpal Bill alone would not be able to check graft and new variety of measures, especially the five-point plan unveiled by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for transparency in governance.

Expressing shock at volleyball player Arunima Sinha being thrown out of a train in Bareilly, BJP on Thursday alleged that both railway minister Mamata Banerjee and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati should be held responsible for the incident.

The Pipraich byelections in Uttar Pradesh are fast turning into an “oust BSP” campaign and are also preparing the ground for a fresh realignment of political forces in the state.

Union minister Sharad Pawar’s name has cropped up in a statement corporate lobbyist Niira Radia has made to CBI in the 2G scam in which she has claimed without evidence that he was controlling the controversial DB Realty group, whose telecom company Swan has been charge sheeted in the case.

After a long wait, the Congress on Wednesday nominated Mr Ajay Singh, son of late party veteran Arjun Singh, as the Congress Legislature Party leader in Madhya Pradesh. The post remained vacant for over six months since the death of Jamuna Devi.

A family’s 17-year-long battle with public sector unit Bhilai Steel Plant ended in a tragedy at Bhilai, nearly 35 km from here, late on Monday night, when all the members of the family decided to commit suicide en masse by consuming poison.

Jamia Millia Islamia University here will introduce OMR application forms for its engineering and MBA courses to deal with an increasing number of applications.

With Japanese nuclear authorities placing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant crisis at par with the world’s worst nuclear disaster which took place at Chernobyl in 1986, Indian experts feel the cumulative release of radioactive substances will contaminate the affected areas for several years.

BJP on Wednesday said it is willing for a resolution of Kashmir issue within the ambit of justice and humanity.