The first time I saw Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was when he was chief minister of Rajasthan. I saw him from the Press Gallery of the old Vidhan Sabha, a stone’s throw from Jaipur’s famous Hawa Mahal. He spoke for more than an hour without pause or interruption. A few days later I met him at Jodhpur House in Delhi.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna is expected to reassure his Iran counterpart, Mr Manouchehr Mottaki, that India remains interested in the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project when they hold bilateral talks in Tehran.

The Darul Uloom, Deoband, may not approve of Muslims working in banks or even having insurance policies. But the country’s minority affairs minister, Salman Khurshid, has indicated that he sees nothing wrong in either having a bank account or an insurance.

Home minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday expressed surprise and disappointment by the BJP’s statement alleging that the home minister’s unilateral decision to allow NSCN-IM leader T Muivah to visit Manipur has created tension in the state.

A Delhi court on Saturday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of passing classified information to Pakistani intelligence agencies.

The Union law and justice ministry has blocked the proposed Nyaya Panchayat Bill, put forth by the panchayati raj ministry, on the ground that it went against constitutional provisions.

To ensure complete justice to the rape victims whose cases are often weakened at the time of registration of FIR by the police under “influence” of the powerful accused, the Supreme Court in an important judgment has held that the FIR was not a “substantive” evidence in rape cases.

The Medical Council of India, the national medical education regulator, was on Saturday dissolved in the wake of a recent corruption allegations. The MCI general council has been replaced by a six-member panel of eminent doctors, led by gastroenterologist S.K. Sarin.

Five-star hospitality awaits the votaries of Socialist politics during their three-day National Executive meeting in Kolkata. The founding member of the Samajwadi Party and West Bengal fisheries minister, Kiranmay Nanda, is

Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee continues to keep the UPA on tenterhooks. And this time, it’s about her likely presence, or absence, for the UPA dinner slated to be held in the capital on May 22.
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have extended an invite to the temperamental Trinamul l