The Election Commission (EC) is contemplating to record the poll proceedings with the help of surveillance helicopters in 14 Assembly constituencies in the Maoist-infested Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore districts which would go to polls on May 10. The EC will rope in three helicopters for air surveillance in Janagalmahal from

A 48-year-old housewife was held hostage at her Maurya Enclave residence in northeast Delhi on Tuesday afternoon by six dacoits who took away cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

Once marginalised by his party, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi appears to have bounced back with his party planning to make him its most visible face in the run-up to next year’s Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. The party has chalked out a comprehensive plan to shortly launch its “Mission UP” with putting on the fore front Dr Joshi’s exploits as the chairman of the PAC.

The Planning Commission on Wednesday refused to be drawn into the controversy surrounding the Commonwealth Games infrastructure developed in the capital. Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, on Wednesday said that the plan panel members were satisfied with the infrastructure

Union minister for development of Northeast B.K. Handique on Wednesday said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may arrive in Itanagar to pay their last respects to Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu.

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday told chief minister Sheila Dikshit that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be informed about the urgency to take up the issue of shortage of water in the capital after Ms Dikshit told the plan panel that “radical measures” are needed to deal with the increasing water shortage in the city.

The late chief minister Dorjee Khandu was the sixth chief minister of the state who first took over the office on April 9, 2007, replacing the powerful Gegong Apang, who had ruled the state for 23 years.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the 2G Spectrum scam, will begin the process of attachment of properties allegedly acquired by two telecom companies, chargesheeted by the CBI, from next week. The total cost of the illegally acquired properties is expected to be around `5,742 crores.

Soon after the death of Dorjee Khandu in a copter crash was confirmed, hectic lobbying started in frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, with powerful lobbies of industrialists and a section of bureaucrats pushing the name of Nabam Tuki, PCC president and PWD minister, for the chief minister’s post.

The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday again came under the Supreme Court attack for doubling the recruitment of “ill-trained” special police officials for counter-Maoist operations on the face of allegations that they were responsible for recent attacks on some tribal villages.