With party veteran Vasant Sathe pitching for Priyanka Gandhi’s active political participation, the Congress on Monday maintained that it was for her to decide whether to enter active politics.

Justice S. Muralidhar of the Delhi high court on Monday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order asking the Supreme Court to explain the rationale of one of its rulings.

The reconstituted Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) headed by senior BJP leader M.M. Joshi on Monday saw Congress members seeking to corner Dr Joshi on the 2G spectrum issue and the NDA members counselling restraint.

At least ten policemen, including an additional superintendent of police (ASP), were feared killed in a Naxal ambush inside a forest at Ammamala in Raipur district late on Monday evening, police said.

The CPI(M) on Monday admitted that some element of “alienation” and “anger” was responsible for the drubbing of the Left Front in West Bengal polls and did not rule out a change of Central leadership, saying that the process of introspection is on.

Justice S. Muralidhar of the Delhi high court on Monday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order asking the Supreme Court to explain the rationale of one of its rulings.

The Centre on Monday said that the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has its task cut out to take action against “armed camps’’ existing in the state and reinstate law and order in such areas. Union home minister P. Chidambaram said that some arms have been recovered from “local CPI(M) offices’’, including the

Union minister Sachin Pilot’s arrest over Bhatta-Parsaul farmers’ issue on Sunday has virtually given the “action plan” for about half-a-dozen Congress ministers from Uttar Pradesh at the Centre.

Rejecting reports of political violence, chief minister Mamata Banerjee once again told the police to do its job impartially. She also cautioned the people from taking law into their own hands. On being asked about the reports of political violence, Ms Banerjee said, “There is no incident of political violence in the state.”

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said one of his “biggest frustrations” in UPA II was his “inability” to make Botanical Survey of India (BSI) and Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) autonomous. He said he was facing resistance from the scientific community within these two organisation, who are against autonomy as will make