The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is, once again, reverting back to former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to revive itself in the state.
The BJP will be launching “Samagra Atal” in the state on September 21 with an objective to collect and digitalise writings, thoughts and speeches of Mr Vajpayee, who won five times from Lucknow parliamentary constituency.

The RSS is seething as Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi apparently ignored the Sangh Parivar and took only a section of the BJP’s top leadership into confidence.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s new-found friendship with Narendra Modi has not gone down well with the Shiv Sena. While Raj Thackeray on Monday supported Mr Modi’s candidature for the Prime Minister’s post, the Sena, BJP’s alliance partner, has criticised the Gujarat chief minister for projecting his secular image.

Nearly a week after the FAO warning about the possible resurgence of bird flu in Asia, Western Assam’s Dhu-bri district has detected a confirmed outbreak and has started the culling of chickens.

The toll in the Delhi high court blast rose to 12 persons as an injured succumbed at RML Hospital on Thursday. Relatives and friends of the deceased, Pramod Chourasia, 40, indulged in slogan shouting after his body was not handed over to them at the hospital.

Fresh analysis of a 2 million-year-old hominid fossils discovered in 2008 has led to the realisation that tool making ability came from species existing much before our genus — Homo. This makes Australopithe-cus sediba, not only the

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that Bangladesh was in the midst of a major socio-economic transformation. “Your economy has witnessed steady growth during the last several years and you have achieved commendable successes in eradicating poverty, hunger, illiteracy and

Terming the allegations made by BJP and other Opposition parties against it in the wake of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in the cash-for-vote scam as “baseless”, the Congress on Tuesday said the due process of law is being followed in the case. It said that the arrest of Mr Singh and others was the culmination of a “very closely monitored” Delhi police investigation by the Supreme Court.

The CBI, which is probing irregularities committed by iron ore mining firm Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) owned by former Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy, has now started scrutinising satellite imagery of the areas where the company allegedly carried out unauthorised mining.

With the arrest of mining baron and former Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company managing director B.V. Srinivas Reddy on Monday, the CBI has now begun its probe into the illegal mining activities being run by the Reddy brothers of Bellary across the border in Andhra Pradesh.