Pinning hopes on the expected good monsoon this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said food prices will soon come down and consequently inflation would ease to six per cent by December. Inflation currently is in double digits.

A section of BJP leaders claimed on Saturday that the BJP has made a dent in Vidarbha, considered a Congress stronghold.

Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal members, at a meeting of the chief whips of the political parties here on Friday, demanded a structured discussion on “Hindu terrorism” during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, beginning Monday, with the calculation that this could embarrass the JD(U), BJP and Congress ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls.

Combative Gujrat chief minister Narendra Modi, who is embroiled in a fake encounter controversy, on Saturday, attacked the Centre for pursuing “pick and choose” policy in using CBI against his ministerial colleague and state home minister Amit Shah. He said, the Centre is using the investigative agency as a “political tool” against his government to settle scores.

The Congress on Saturday termed Gujarat minister Amit Shah’s resignation as “too little, too late” and attacked the BJP leadership for fully “supporting and justifying” his actions and showing no no “remorse or apology”.

In a bid to turn the 2012 UP electoral battle between between himself and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, state Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has embarked upon a hunt to find prospective candidates by inviting applications and interviewing them.

In a relief to marble traders operating in the west Delhi area, the high court has restrained the city government from evicting them from their premises.
The PWD sought to acquire plots on the ground that the occupation of land by these traders was illegal as no prior sanction had been obtained by them from the Delhi Development Provisional Authority.

Raising questions on the safety of materials being used in the Commonwealth Games preparations, Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta on Saturday asked if the city government can not protect them how would they protect foreign sports persons and sports lovers during the mega-sporting events.

Two people who used to rob people after offering them a lift at night were arrested, the police said on Saturday.
Mohammad Nadeem, 22, the gang leader and a call centre cab driver in Noida, was arrested along with his associate Jeetu Kumar, 21, from Sarai Kale Khan Bus Terminal in south Delhi, a police officer said.

The Delhi high court has asked the Delhi Pollution Control Board (DPCB) to explain how the “waste to energy” project near Sukhdev Vihar will not be polluting the air.
The court sought a detailed report from the DPCB while hearing a PIL filed by Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association (RWA).