NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the row over the issue of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) will not have any impact on the ties between his party and the Congress in the state.

The special CBI court hearing the 2G spectrum case on Tuesday rejected the bail applications of Shahid Usman Balwa, promoter of DB Realty, and his cousin Asif Balwa and Rajeev Agarwal, both directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd, for alleged involvement in the scam.

The CPI has termed the drubbing of the Left in the recent Assembly elections in West Bengal as a “serious political setback’’ which calls for introspection and the need to win back the confidence of people who’ve been alienated during the span of the 34 year long rule of the Left Front in Bengal.

The 26/11 trial in the United States in which US national and LeT operative David Coleman Headley has implicated Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), for providing support to the LeT in carrying out the 2008 terror attack is expected to find mention in the talks between Union home minister P. Chidam-baram and US

Recent statements and remarks by some Congress leaders are creating confusion within the party which is finding it difficult to either defend or distance itself from them.

Setting at rest speculation about an imminent realignment of political forces, AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday called on DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi, who was in New Delhi to meet daughter Kanimozhi, now in jail as an accused in the 2G scam.

In a marked difference from press conferences during her earlier tenures, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, sporting a smile, had a freewheeling chat with reporters for almost an hour on Tuesday at the Secretariat.
Responding to queries on the 2G spectrum issue, Ms Jayalalithaa said the apex court action has restored

The Central agencies’ operation of outsourcing the firing job on fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother, Iqbal Kaskar, has drawn positive results as the intelligence agencies say they have managed to trace the location of mafia don Chhota Shakeel.

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s wife Surinder Kaur Badal passed away on Tuesday afternoon after a two-year battle with cancer at Chandigarh’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research.
The chief minister, his son deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, daughter Preneet Kaur and daughter-in-law

Being a child prodigy is proving to be a curse for 10-year-old K. Visalini as the schools find her too intelligent for their education systems. Visalini has been forced to change schools year after year.