Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit releases a coffee table book Delhi: Red Fort to Raisina, published by Roli Books, which marks 100 years of Delhi as India’s capital, at the Taj Ambassador Hotel in

A transgender named Shobha Bua will be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ms Mayawati and Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav for the chief minister’s post in the coming Assembly elections.

BJP MP Varun Gandhi’s prolonged absence form Uttar Pradesh politics has started irking party cadres and legislators who are seeking re-election are getting increasingly restive.

Former Union minister and Samajwadi Party MP Rasheed Masood on Monday joined the Congress ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
The RLD’s joining the UPA and Mr Masood’s quitting the SP have come as a

The central election committee (CEC) of the BJP is expected to meet on December 13 to finalise names of candidates for the poll-bound states, including Uttar Pradesh. The party is also likely to release the first list of candidates for the UP polls on Tuesday.

Several challenges in the aviation sector await RLD leader Ajit Singh, who is likely to be sworn in soon as civil aviation minister replacing Congress veteran Vayalar Ravi who had taken over additional charge of the ministry in January

In what has created a sensation across political circles in Assam, the outlawed Ulfa claimed here on Monday that state education minister Himan-ta Biswa Sarma was once an active member of its political wing, but had deserted the outfit fearing for his life.

RLD chief Ajit Singh, who joined the UPA formally on Monday, is likely to be sworn in as a Union Cabinet minister this week. Speculation is rife that Mr Singh could be sworn in as civil aviation minister by December 16. President Pratibha

Lok Sabha on Monday passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (special provision) second bill, 2011.
Replying to the debate on the bill, Union urban development minister Kamal Nath promised to prepare a visionary plan that will take into account the

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav is flanked by Congress leaders Pramod Tiwari and Digvijay Singh at Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday. — Pritam Bandyopadhyay