A long and arduous political journey will culminate in triumph for Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who is all set to be sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal on May 20. So far, there are ample indications that the Congress will be joining the Mamata-led state government when it is sworn in Kolkata.

A Saudi diplomat was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles in Karachi on Monday, the police said. This comes days after unidentified attackers threw two hand grenades at the Saudi consulate in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital.

The Waqf Board on Monday told the Delhi high court that the trust, running the alleged illegal mosque at Jangpura which was razed, has been offered a piece of land by the DDA.

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Monday admitted that his party could not win over voters determined on change, but defiantly ruled out resigning over the crushing defeat in West Bengal, where it lost power after 34 years, and the loss in Kerala.

The crime branch has arrested two Indian Railway employees for running a fake railway recruitment scam and cheating hundreds of aspiring candidates in the city.
The accused have been identified as Om Pal Singh, 38, a helper in Northern Railways and Sandeep Kumar, 37, a staff welfare inspector in Indian Railway Conference Association here, the police said.

Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s pitch for imposing President’s Rule in the state has found no takers in the Manmohan Singh government.
There appears little likelihood of President Pratibha Patil being swayed by Mr Bhardwaj’s logic that the government of chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa should be

The south district police claimed to have gained several leads into the gruesome murder of engineering student Shobhit Modi with the investigators deciding to “re-question” at least nine suspects.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has opposed the bail application of sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi and submitted before a Special CBI court that his conduct has tarnished the image of the country. Kalmadi was arrested by the CBI along with OC joint director general (Sport)

Though it might have come a bit too late but the Supreme Court in its order on food security for poor on Saturday lavished praise on the outgoing DMK-led government in Tamil Nadu for running the best public distribution system in the country. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari not only praised the Tamil Nadu government but asked the Centre to emulate the system evolved by it and make the same applicable in other states.

The superspeciality hospitals at Janakpuri and Tahirpur may take more time for being thrown open to public as no private agency is coming forward as the amount in bid is high.