As the party has decided to go alone in UP, the Congress is working on a two-prong strategy to face the electoral battle in the state in 2012. First the party has been working on a few of the smaller caste-parties including RLD, Apna Dal and Peace Party to merge them with the Congress. It has also laid out a comprehensive plan to prepare a detailed chargesheet relating to “institutionalised corruption” against Mayawati government in the state.

Accusing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of “playing the RSS game”, Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) on Thursday claimed that the recent tiff between the ruling alliance partners — JD(U) and BJP — was nothing, but a “stage-managed” ploy to “confuse people” in the state ahead of assembly elections.

Opposition unity got weakened due to the BJP’s attempts to embarrass the Left and the non-NDA parties ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament commencing from July 26.

Frauds will now have a tougher time fooling banks. The Credit Information Bureau (CIBIL) has for the first time in India created a database of frauds and banks can check the credentials of new customers against this database before dealing with them.

Defying CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, the West Bengal government has invited expelled party leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to be the main speaker at the first Jyoti Basu Memorial Lecture at the state Assembly on Thursday.

A Delhi court on Wednesday framed murder charges against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and four others for allegedly killing one person in Sultanpuri area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, paving the way for the leader to face trial.

The Union information and broadcasting ministry has decided to launch an ambitious scheme for the restoration and preservation of important original films covering the freedom movement of the country. The move comes after it came to light that several films pertaining to speeches, political rallies and actions of important leaders of

The Delhi police on Wednesday said that the 27 passengers, who were held at IGI airport here, were not part of any terrorist outfit and a “rival visa racket,” may have blew the lid off the racket by making hoax calls to two private airlines on Tuesday evening.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought details from the Centre regarding the steps taken by it for securing the release of Indian national Gopal Das from Pakistan jail after he had served life sentence on being convicted on the charges of spying.

In a major setback to Maharashtra demanding the transfer of nearly eight hundred villages of Belgaum region to it, the Centre in an affidavit to the Supreme Court has rejected its demand.