Mumbai Congress leaders want the party to fight the coming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections on its own after defeating the Shiv Sena-MNS and the BJP on its home turf in the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly polls twice since 2004. The Congress, too, is not keen to have a pre-poll alliance with the Sharad Pawar-led party in this election.

With the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill (CLNDB) to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, minister of science and technology Prithviraj Chavan held a series of meetings with leaders of the Left parties.

The RJD leaders are hopeful that the Muslim support will come back to the party in this year’s Bihar Assembly election, after party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was declared the chief ministerial candidate of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Lok Janshakti Party combine.

The government is prepared for a floor test on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill but it is unlikely to be passed without a deal with either the BJP or the Mandalite parties on Wednesday.

The Congress Party has asked Jammu and Kashmir PWD minister G.M.

A group of Greenpeace activists on Wednesday staged a protest near the Parliament House against the nuclear liability bill.

Rains continued to lash the national capital for the seventh consecutive day, causing widespread waterlogging and serpentine traffic jams in many areas.

More than 1,000 personnel from specialised units of the Army are likely to be roped in for specific security-related duties during the upcoming Commonwealth Games here.

Warning that there has been no let up in attempts to radicalise the youth, home minister P.

The increasing number of star pullouts may be taking the sheen off the Commonwealth Games but Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi is not too worried, saying there will be plenty of world cham