The CPI (M) on Sunday demanded an independent inquiry into all aspects of the Bhopal Gas tragedy saying that a Group of Ministers (GoM) will not be able to probe the alleged failure of state agencies.

In line with Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s claim that he would go to “any extent” in bringing justice to the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy, the state government has begun the exercise of taking legal opinion on whether it can reinvestigate the whole case, including the escape of then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson.

Even as the state unit showing eagerness to form a popular government in Jharkhand, the Congress central leadership has decided not to oblige them at least till Bihar elections, which are scheduled for October-November this year.

The Congress party has called a meeting of its select leaders to draw a strategy for the coming Bihar Assembly elections here on Monday against the backdrop of strained relations between the ruling partners — Janata Dal (U) and the BJP — in the state.

The Congress party on Sunday hit back at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for “dragging” Mrs Sonia Gandhi into the issue of Bhopal gas tragedy case and charged the BJP leader with practising “disr

In a bid to downplay the controversy over Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s objections to the advertisement showing him with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav on Sunday said his party’s alliance and relationship with the BJP is “quite old” and leaders on both sides are mature to sort out the differences.

A blame game has begun in the BJP after controversy over advertisement showing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi. A section within the party feels that the present controversy is also the result of deputy chief minister and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi’s willingness to play a subservient

Slamming the Delhi Transport Corporation for terminating the services of a driver on medical grounds despite the fact that he had performed his job in the corporation for more than 23 years without an index figure, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has rapped the DTC and asked it to take him back.

A 35-year-old CRPF woman head constable died under mysterious circumstances on Sunday evening at Vikaspuri police lines in west Delhi with her relatives alleging that she was harassed by seniors.

Days after she was abducted from her north Delhi residence, a three-year-old daughter of a railways official was rescued from Kathmandu’s international airport by the Delhi police. The girl Vaibhavi Chaturvedi is a pre-nursery student at a local government school. Her father Venkateshwar Chaturvedi, is an inspector in railways’ planning department.