Sticking to its plan to go alone in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections scheduled later this year, the Congress on Wednesday hinted that the party would prefer wasting its 10 votes in Rajya Sabha elections than supporting either a RJD nominee or LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to nominate actor-turned-politician and the party’s star campaigner, Ms Hema Malini, to the Rajya Sabha.
The party, which is likely to finalise the names of its members to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha by early next week, is also considering names of former Karnataka ministers Shoba Karandlaje and Jagdish Shettigar for the Rajya Sabha.

Uttar Pradesh SP president Akhilesh Yadav, speaking to this newspaper, on Wednesday said that the decision to renominate Ms Jaya Bachchan was taken following “constructive work done by her for the party and her non-partisan with regard to Amar Singh’s expulsion”.

Aiming to further enhance trade and cooperation between the two fastest growing countries in the world, India on Wednesday decided to open an economic wing in the Indian embassy in China. The wing is expected to streamline the negotiating capabilities of the mission and also help in coordination on issues related to foreign

Sources have confirmed that both Union ministers Kapil Sibal and M.S. Gill opposed any move to include caste in the Census.
But Dr M. Veerappa Moily, who has on several occasions spoke his mind favouring such a move, is learnt to have said that caste could easily be included in round two a

Sahil Kaushik did not believe in cramming but that has not stopped him from coming out with flying colours as he topped the Delhi zone in the IIT-JEE exam at the age of 14.

Expensive gifts to charm girlfriend and IPL betting led a 23-year-old to burglaries in various areas of south and southeast Delhi. However, Praveen Kumar and his associate Biru (22) ran out of luck after a police team arrested the duo on Tuesday from the Lodhi Colony area.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed Delhi commissioner of police Y.S. Dadwal to conduct an independent probe into the MCD’s “ghost” employees scam and submit the report in two months.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday stated that the rape of a 30-year-old woman allegedly by a traffic policeman is a “very serious matter” and appropriate action will be taken against the guilty.

The Duta have threatened to stay away from admission process this academic session allegedly over the vice-chancellor’s arbitrary ways of imposing semester system. In a general body meeting of science teachers held on Wednesday, the science teachers resolved to keep themselves away from all kinds of work involved in the implementation of the semester system.