Chief minister Sheila Dikshit was pressed in the election campaign for Hisar bypoll in Haryana by the Congress party on Monday to help party nominee Jai Prakash. Ms Dikshit was sent by the Congress high command just after social activist Anna Hazare and his team held a rally and launched a campaign against the Congress on the issue of a strong Lokpal.

While Delhiites are facing severe powercuts, blamegame has started among the politicians. Delhi power minister Haroon Yusuf on Monday that the power crisis has surfaced because of Uttar Pradesh.

Anna Hazare’s impact, if any, could be seen in the Lok Sabha bypoll in Hisar and the local body elections, including the prestigious BMC in Maharashtra, in the coming months.

The Centre has approved `120 crores to strengthen 400 police stations located in Naxal-affected areas across the country.

AICC secretary Abdul Mannan, UPCC spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh and former NSUI president Nadeem Javed figure in the second list of 62 Congress candidates announced on Thursday for the 2012 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Even after missing its own July deadline to come out with the first list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh polls, the BJP is still struggling to calm internal squabbling over ticket distributions. However, party insiders disclosed the first

With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections round the corner, the government is working on a plan to have special component for minority welfare in the Union Budget.

Breaking his silence on the mysterious death of a National Conference worker in police custody, the NC president, Union minister for new and renewable energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, on Thursday denied the deceased had collected about `12

Congress president Sonia Gandhi poses with a bow and arrow as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and vice-president Hamid Ansari look on before the burning of the effigy of Ravan at Ramlila Maidan on Dusse

In the first ever case of “plea bargaining” in Mum-bai, four foreign nationals who were arrested for the `6.6-crore diamond heist at the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) last year, agreed to pay `60 lakh to the complainant on Thursday.