With the Ram Mandir issue having lost the power to bring in votes and catchy slogans having failed to mobilise cadres, the Bharatiya Janata Party has finally decided to take refuge in the charisma of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to return to power in UP and at the Centre.

Government on Thursday rejected joint Lokpal bill drafting committee co-chairman Shanti Bhushan’s invitation to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and other government representatives on the panel to join civil society in an open debate over the proposed legislation.

Thousands of supporters of yoga guru Baba Ramdev are pouring into the capital to lend their support to the proposed satyagrah against corruption at Ramlila Ground.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has mentioned the name of a senior BJP leader and former minister Rajendra Rathore in a chargesheet filed against suspects in the Dara Singh alias Dariya encounter case. The CBI described the incident in which Dariya was killed on October, 23, 2006 in Mansarovar area of Jaipur as “stage-managed.”

Amidst loud chants of Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata ki jai, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev announced his decision to launch the satyagrah against corruption from Saturday is final. Ramdev asked his followers to join him in the fast till the date the government conceded to all demands that aim to curb corruption and bring back black money to the country.

The last of Haryana’s politically influential Lals, former chief minister Bhajan Lal, passed away in Hisar on Friday, aged 80, after suffering a heart attack while at his family home.

In one smart move, UP chief minister Mayawati has turned the tables on her political rivals and stumped her detractors.

As the UPA government is facing clamour from all sides on the issue of corruption and creation of Lokpal, the recommendation of Constitution review commission set by the NDA government could prove handy for the government in defending its decision to insulate the PM from the purview of Lokpal. The 10-member Constitution

In a veiled attack on the Congress, DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi, in his birthday message to the party cadre, said, “Bad company will lead to disaster (Koodaa natpu kedaai mudiyum)”.

The Jayalalithaa government on Friday announced a probe into alleged irregularities in the construction of the mega Assembly-Secretariat complex by the predecessor DMK regime, while scrapping most of its pet projects such as the housing and insurance schemes named after Mr M. Karunanidhi. Also, in a move aimed at clipping the