The current mood in the Congress is of going it alone in the coming local body elections in Maharashtra after realising that dissolution of board of directors of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank has come as a bad omen for the NCP.

In a meeting on Wednesday, the Delhi BJP legislative party slammed chief minister Sheila Dikshit for her attack on the functioning of the MCD. The party accused the chief minister of making attempts to defame the civic body.

Even as the Bihar Vigilance Investigation Bureau finally registered a case against senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker Sadanand Singh for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Assembly Secretariat employees, there is little response from the Congress party in his defence.

Keeping with its proposed plan to involve private sector in the water sector, the Delhi government on Wednesday constituted a high-powered committee to draft a roadmap and bring reforms in the management and distribution of water in the city, besides restructuring the Delhi Jal Board.

Telugu superstar and Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president Chiranjeevi on Wednesday said that the merger of his party with the congress would be completed by the end of this month.

In a crackdown on food adulteration, the Delhi government on Wednesday said that a new law with stringent provisions, including life term, would come in force in three months’ time in the city. The government has stated that the rules in respect of the new law have been notified.

The exit polls predicting an impressive hat-trick for the ruling Congress Party have failed to discourage the Opposition Asom Gana Parishad, BJP and AIUDF in working out strategy for a non-Congress government in Assam.

The IAF has decided to station Garud Commandos, the special force unit of IAF, in MI-17 helicopters deployed in insurgency-hit Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, apparently to counter Naxal threats, sources in air wing said here on Wednesday.

Now that all the exit polls have predicted the exit of Left Front, the million-dollar question being asked is: what role will Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee play in the changed circumstances?

India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.