The Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa on Thursday faced further embarrassment as an FIR was registered against four ministers, for availing lands and houses from the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) by “fraudulent” means.

After Anna Hazare declared that he will campaign in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, one of the top campaigner of the Congress in the state Raj Babbar has questioned his credibility, asking where was he when people from the Hindi heartland were being evicted and harassed in Mumbai.

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a scathing attack against the Communists and given a call to remove them from their last post. “They have been removed from West Bengal and Kerala and now is the turn for Tripura,” he said.

Former Union minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan has said that sadhus, saints and their religious trusts and NGOs should also be brought within the purview of the proposed Lokpal Bill.

In view of the prevailing circumstances in Delhi, the Congress in UP will be playing safe on the corruption issue in the coming UP Assembly polls.
The Samajwadi Party, in total contrast, will be focusing only on the corruption issue in order to put the BSP in the dock and add to the discomfort in the Congress camp.

While many people think that Friday, which is 11.11.11 (a sequence that will happen again only a century later) makes the day particularly auspicious, a number of astrologers feel that it’s just another day.

The CBI finally questioned sacked Rajasthan water resources minister Mahipal Maderna on Thursday in Jodhpur for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of a nurse, Bhanwari Devi, while a 48-minute video CD showing the ex-minister and the nurse also came into the open.

India and Pakistan have evidently decided to turn their backs on their acrimonious past, with Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousaf Raza Gilani publicly praising one another after an hour-long one-on-one interaction here, and announcing that in their subsequent dialogue they would be even more forthcoming.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (centre) with actors Shah Rukh Khan and Sharmila Tagore during the inauguration of the 17th Kolkata Film Festival at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on

Union urban development minister Kamal Nath on Thursday said that Delhi Master Plan 2021 would be revised next year. The minister said that it was due to “irrelevant” planning that illegal colonies have proliferated in the national capital.