AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to the state to boost the party’s membership drive, seems to be alienating the party’s old allies. His comment that the dalits don’t have any youth leaders to look forward to has slighted dalit organisations across the state. He said that those who claim to be dalit leaders are in the leadership position because they inherited the same from their families.

Yashwant Sonawane, the additional district collector who was burnt alive by the oil mafia, was not the first government servant to be “eliminated”. There have been two other instances in the past when government officials have been murdered by the oil mafia.

The RBI has in unequivocal terms said people should be prepared to live in a high-inflation regime and has itself revised the inflation rate for March 2011 from 5.5 to seven per cent. Even the growth rate has been maintained at 8.5 per cent, but with an upward bias for 2010-11. This is less than the 8.9 per cent growth witnessed in the first half of 2010-11. Since then the upside risks have increased, RBI governor D. Subbarao said Tuesday.

An additional district collector was burnt alive by members of an oil mafia in the vicinity of the Panewadi oil depot near Manmad town in Nashik on Tuesday. The area is infamous for oil and kerosene adulteration.

Income-tax officials raided the residences and offices of top Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra in Mumbai all through Monday. Sources said they were investigating the actresses’ offshore incomes over the past two years and also suspected the two had taken some payments in cash.

After MV Chitra and MV Khalija III collided, the resultant oil spill has had the most harmful effect on mangroves in Colaba and Vashi. An interim report on the study of the impact of the oil spill on mangroves in Mumbai and along the Raigad coast has revealed this fact. Moreover, there is no hope for the regeneration of mangroves from

Income-tax officials raided the residences and offices of Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra in Mumbai on Monday. Sources said that they had been investigating the offshore incomes of the actresses for the last two years and also suspected that the two had taken a portion of their payments for work in cash.

In an operation conducted with clockwork precision at Ahmednagar, officials of Indian Railways and the Railway Protection Force shunted a special train carrying BJP Yuva Morcha activists from Karnatak

If the Mumbai police is to be believed, American-born terrorist David Headley, who has confessed to conducting a recce of all 26/11 targets in the city, may have played no role in the carnage.

An Agra resident who wants master blaster Sachin Tendulkar to receive the prestigious Bharat Ratna award, has pedalled his cycle-rickshaw all the way from Agra to Mumbai with his wife to promote his c