Within a month Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi formed his Cabinet, infighting has broke out with a former chief minister and senior most Congress leader accusing a minister of securing cabinet berth by using “money power”.
The problem started when agriculture minister Nilmani Sen Deka accused former chief minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman of indulging in backbiting that led to his defeat in 2006.

Former chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh charged the Akali-BJP government of “deliberately subverting long-established legal processes to forcibly acquire farmers’ lands across Punjab.”

Facing heat from the Congress in the run-up to next year’s UP Assembly polls, BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday went on the offensive in an attempt to turn the table by raising the Commonwealth Games scam and corruption issues in a party workers’ meet in Delhi.

India has not felt the need for a bilateral river waters sharing agreement with China similar to the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a government source said, implying that the present arrangement is adequate.

A debate has begun in the Congress circles whether regional satraps be given a free hand to revive the party in different states ahead of Assembly elections and the next General Election.

An Indian military delegation led by a senior Army officer of the rank of major-general in the Northern Command will leave for China on June 19, defence sources confirmed on Thursday. This will mean the resumption of the defence exchanges between the two countries that was decided upon during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent visit

Setting the ball rolling for formal peace talks, a Suspension of Operations Agreement, is likely to be signed between the outlawed Ulfa and the Centre by June end.

The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious view of the Centre taking divergent stand on the application of the controversial Armed Forces Special Power Act in the context of two “fake encounters” in Jammu and Kashmir and Assam and asked the government to take a clear view on the issue.

The lone eyewitness to the shocking murder wherein Haryana’s former transport minister and a chief parliamentary secretary are suspects, was found dead in Karnal city on Wednesday.

Insurgent violence showed no sign of letting up in Chhattisgarh with the Maoists killing two villagers, attacking a search party, injuring two CRPF jawans, shooting at a local CPI leader and looting houses in several villages in the Bastar region on Wednesday.