Gandhian activist Anna Hazare on Monday warned the Congress that if the party failed to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Winter Session of Parliament, it would be “he himself” campaigning against the party in the upcoming Assembly elections and not just the Team Anna members as had been the case in the Hisar Lok Sabha byelection.

Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury brushed aside claims that the defeat in Hisar, Khadakwasla and Banswada will affect the coming Assembly polls in five states, including Uttar Pradesh. She, however, noted that the result

The outcome of the byelections — one Lok Sabha and three Assembly — have come as a morale booster for the Opposition parties but the Congress feels it will not have a bearing on about half-a-dozen Assembly elections to be held next year.

Virat Kohli celebrates his century during the second ODI against England in New Delhi on Monday. India won by eight wickets to lead the five-match series 2-0.

One of the most successful efforts to rehabilitate villagers from a tiger reserve is now being conducted at Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha park: 28 villages in the core reserve area have already been relocated and another 17 on the periphery are in the process of being shifted out.

A person cannot be held guilty of an offence unless it is proved he had either the intention to commit it or the knowledge of committing it, a city court has said, while letting off a couple of the charges of assaulting a pregnant woman, thereby causing her miscarriage.

A city court rebuked the police for its “lopsided” probe into recovery of headless bodies near Tihar jail four years ago after the alleged serial killer sought his discharge in one of the cases, saying the victim was not the one for whose murder he was being tried.

The United States has deployed hundreds of troops along the Paki-stan-Afghanistan border near the tribal North Waziristan Agency as fears grow of an attack on the Haqqani network, security sources said.

Several areas in West Delhi plunged into darkness on Tuesday evening after a major transformer caught fire in the area, forcing authorities to shut a 220KV transmission line.

The result of the much-hyped Hisar Lok Sabha byelection was much on expected lines: the sympathy factor and a strategic electoral tieup with the BJP helping Haryana Janhit Congress candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi to defeat his