Dubbing the move of the Uttar Pradesh government to create a new district carved out of Mr Rahul Gandhi’s constituency “unacceptable”, the Congress on Thursday said Amethi will always remain intrinsically connected to the Nehru-Gandhi family.

The Maharashtra Congress on Thursday urged the Centre to make wheat available to the aam aadmi at an uniform price across the country while demanding changes in the wheat supply policy.

The coming Assembly elections in Bihar are a different ball game with neither chief minister Nitish Kumar the “hero” nor RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav the “villain”.
Political leaders cutting across party lines are assessing the ground level situation in the state ahead of the electoral battle and feel that the political scenario would become clear by mid-August.

After going through the petition of Mr George Fernandes’ brothers Richard and Michael, Justice V.K. Shali said, “The court wants to ascertain what he wants.

Though the Samajwadi Party on Thursday maintained that the coming together of the Opposition parties on the issue of hike in petroleum producers is akin to the pre-emergency time of 1975, the party stated that it would not withdraw support to the UPA government.

The International Cricket Council executive board on Thursday said it had approved a tweaked Anti-Doping Code with minor amendments to the “whereabouts” clause.
The new code will come into effect from August 1, 2010, although the changes made to the contentious clause haven’t yet been made public. The code’s adoption was delayed after the objections were raised by the Board of Comtrol for Cricket in India on behalf of its cricketers.

After undergoing rigorous training in the last three months, the Indian netball team are confident of reaching the semifinals of the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championships that gets under way at the renovated Thyagaraj Sports Complex here from Saturday.

A meeting at the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne has not eased the tension between the Indian Olympic Association and the sports ministry over the contentious ‘tenure’ issue.

Sharad Pawar on Thursday became only the second Indian after his one-time adversary Jagmohan Dalmiya to occupy the top post at the International Cricket Council.
Pawar took over as ICC president from England’s David Morgan at the world cricket governing body’s annual conference that concluded in Singapore on the day.

Soon after sending the three “honour killings” accused to 14 days’ judicial custody, a Delhi court on Thursday allowed the police to take them into their custody for quizzing them in another related case.