US secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned top Pakistani leaders on Thursday that there was no “middle way out” in the war against terrorism, and said they needed to prove they did not have any connections with the terror networks, official sources said.

The chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advi-sory Council, Dr C. Rang-arajan, on Thursday said that in the present time of high inflation the primary focus of the RBI should be to bring down prices, and not look at growth.

It was a slightly troublesome day for Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who was on a one-day visit to his constituency Amethi on Thursday. Mr Gandhi’s convoy was forcibly stopped by a group of people who were demanding that only candidates

`60 crores was allegedly spent on building Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s bungalow at Lotus Pond in Jubilee Hills and another `25 crores was spent on purchasing the land.

A senior BSP minister and a BSP legislator, in different incidents, have been charged with rape, causing considerable embarrassment to an already beleaguered Mayawati government.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa finally appeared before a special court in Bengaluru for the first time on Thursday in the disproportionate assets case, which was filed way back in 1997 and was grilled for over six hours.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani here on Thursday said that scams dogging the UPA government is tarnishing India’s image abroad, but the “indecisiveness” of the ruling Congress Party in taking effective steps against corruption has resulted in “misrule and price rice”.

RLD MP from Mathura Jayant Chaudhary has accused the Uttar Pradesh administration of not implementing the MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS). He also supported the demand of Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh for social audit of the MPLADS. Drawing the attention of the

Hard bargaining for more seats has begun between the Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Although, both the parties are sending positive signals for fighting the elections together against the BSP, SP and the BJP, the smaller parties moving closer to the Congress are bargaining for more seats.

A DDA engineer was sent to jail for five years by a city court for taking `15,000 bribe for desealing a businessman’s premises, observing that corruption by public servants has become a gigantic problem which is corroding the country like cancer.