The entire Opposition on Sunday attacked the Samajwadi government for its failure to check communal violence in Muzaffarnagar.

India discard Robin Uthappa slammed a sparkling century as India A recorded a comprehensive six-wicket victory over New Zealand A in the first of the three-match unofficial ODI series here on Sunday.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, along with other parliamentary board members of the BJP, including party chief Rajnath Singh, L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M.M. Joshi, attended the key meet held on Sunday.

Samajwadi party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday convened a high-level meeting of political leaders, including chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, from his party and top government officials to discuss the situation in Muzaffarnagar.

Australia beat England by 88 runs to win the second one-day international at Manchester’s Old Trafford on Sunday.

Even as the BJP is predicting a Modi wave across the country for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the regional parties in the UPA, NDA and outside do not see any threat from the BJP’s chief election manager Narendra Modi.

Asserting that opposition to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant would be overcome soon, union minister in PMO V. Narayanasamy said the Centre was closely “monitoring” A few NGOs that have been fuelling the protests against KKNPP.

L.V.R. Deshmukh-trained Vijayshaurya holds an edge over others to win the Totaram’s Cup 1800 metres, the feature event of the races to be held here on Monday. False Rails are up.

While Narendra Modi’s ambitious, politically loaded `2,000-crore project of the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Parel in Gujarat is still in the making, his top rival in the quarrel of governance models, Nitish Kumar, has quietly unveiled a life-size statue of the Iron Man in his home district of Nalanda.

After Parliament gave its nod to the Land Bill, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh credited Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for renaming the legislation to “The Right to Fair Compensation And Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013” and claimed that new law, if implemented well, would also defeat Maoist violence.