Maharashtra Congress chief Manikrao Thakre visited Ralegan Siddhi on Saturday to meet social activist Anna Hazare. According to sources, this movie is an attempt to convince Mr Hazare to not campaign against the Congress, especially after his call to people to vote against the party.

Union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid Saturday said everyone in the party is keen that Mr Rahul Gandhi plays a bigger role, but sidestepped questions about his Cabinet colleague Pranab Mukherjee’s observation that the Amethi MP is going to be a “new leader” of the Congress.

Union law and justice minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday lashed out at the RSS for questioning the constitutional validity of the National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. “Those (the RSS) who do not

Bal Thackeray was locked in a war of words today with Anna Hazare who was warned not to indulge in “enmity” and pick up a fight after the Gandhian mocked the Shiv Sena chief’s old age.

In the first ever case of “plea bargaining” in Mum-bai, four foreign nationals who were arrested for the `6.6-crore diamond heist at the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) last year, agreed to pay `60 lakh to the complainant on Thursday.

The wife of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had testified against Mr Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riots case, has written a second letter to Union home minister P. Chidambaram alleging that her husband was being treated like a “terrorist” by the Gujarat police.

The wife of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had testified against Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riots case, has written a second letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram alleging that her husband was being treated like a ‘terrorist’ by the Gujarat police.

Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt refused to make any compromise with the Gujarat government after a local court proposed that if he went on police remand for about three hours his bail plea could be heard on Tuesday itself.

In a setback to the Gujarat government, a local court on Wednesday rejected its application against arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and said it would hear his bail plea.

A benchmark index for Indian equities on Tuesday plummeted in afternoon trade, falling over 400 points, as traders stepped up selling amid negative global cues.