Former MP and president of newly-floated YSR Congress Party Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy is perhaps one of the richest politicians in India, with declared assets of Rs.365 crores.

Former chief minister and JD(S) state president H.D. Kumaraswamy is in no mood to retract his controversial comments on Mahatma Gandhi and corruption.
In fact, he went a step further on Wednesday saying that he stood by his comments and did not mind being described as a “villain” for speaking the truth.

Voicing confidence that his party will win the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday hinted at a possible coalition government, a key issue said to have been raised by long-time ally Congress as a post-poll arrangement.

Unravelling the political message of the poll percentage in Kerala is often more difficult than deciphering the Da Vinci Code.
However, poll pundits say that the higher turnout in Malabar on Wednesday indicates a Left tilt while in central Kerala and Malappuram, it has a pro-UDF tilt. The south, with a lower a poll share, will play the balancing act.

At the end of a month-long caustic campaign which ended in incidents of sporadic violence, Kerala voted peacefully on Wednesday, registering nearly 75 per cent polling to elect 140 members to the state Assembly.

AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Thursday claimed the high voter turnout for the Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu was a reflection of people's "anger" against the ruling DMK and their resolve to oust the Karunanidhi-led government.

Kings XI Punjab skipper Adam Gilchrist won the toss and decided to field against Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here on Wednesday.

Asserting that there was no dissidence in the Karnataka unit of BJP, chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said there were no differences in party and all minor issues have been solved.

A Mumbai sessions court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of alleged money launderer and tax evader Hasan Ali Khan and his associate Kashinath Tapuriah till April 26, a lawyer said.

More than 78 per cent of voters exercised their franchise by 4 00 p.m. on Wednesday in the Puducherry Assembly polls, officials here said. “At 4 00 p.M. 78.86 per cent votes were cast with Yanam region touching a figure of 92 per cent,” an election official told IANS.