A day after the government sent a strong message that Baba Ramdev’s call to arms will be dealt with according to the law, the yoga guru hurriedly came up with a clarification claiming that he was not a votary of violence and that his views were misrepresented.

Throwing bricks at his neighbours and hurting them during a “jagran” (night-long prayers) in a fit of rage at not being invited has landed a man in Tihar jail.

Before they get ready to take on the Bahujan Samaj Party in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party will battle each other in the first round.

After shocking rivals with good results in the last MCD polls, BSP supremo Mayawati is all set to blow the election bugle on June 16 for the next year’s municipal polls in Delhi. She is expected to gear up the party machinery in Delhi during her day long meetings with the BSP functionaries. Though the MCD election is still a year away, Ms Mayawati is likely to ask the party machinery to go into the poll mode.

Haryana’s transport minister Om Prakash Jain and chief parliamentary secretary Zile Ram Sharma, who have been accused of ordering the killing of a former village sarpanch, resigned on the directions of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

A minor girl was raped in a moving car in Sultanpuri area in West Delhi. A case has been registered but none has been arrested yet.

Barely two days after she was re-inducted in the BJP, Uma Bharti is busy mending fences. In a bid to erase her famous acrimonies with some of the top most leaders in the BJP, Ms Bharti is losing no time in meeting some of these leaders. On Thursday, the firebrand sanyasin met Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, to take

The police fired teargas shells and charged with batons as a section of undertrial prisoners on Thursday went on the rampage in the lockup at the Tis Hazari court here, smashing furnitures and fittings, leaving nine people injured.

“Was it necessary for four ministers to go to airport?” asked the Congress Sandesh over the government’s decision to send the four ministers to Delhi airport to placate Baba Ramdev from sitting on a hunger strike at Ramlila grounds here.

A group of admission seekers at St. Stephen’s College, in Delhi University’s North Campus, on Thursday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee