Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the drought-hit Aurangabad district and assured villagers of taking prompt measures to tackle water and fodder scarcity.

Social activist Anna Hazare today said here that he was puzzled by the nomination of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha.

At a press meet, when asked for his comment on Tendulkar's nominati

Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said this evening that his father and party supremo Bal Thackeray would not meet Anna Hazare as long as he was accompanied by ‘corrupt people’.

Hazare

Maintaining that anything is possible in politics, senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Monday called for a tri-partite alliance of Shiv Sena, BJP and Raj Thackeray led-MNS to pull down ruling Congress-NCP combine.

Eight people, including five children, were killed and 11 others injured when a bomb planted by Maoists went off this morning in the Naxal-hit Aurangabad district in Bihar, a day after the final phase