Dalit politics in Bihar, the spine of the state’s sprawling identity politics that was brought under a tight leash by the Nitish Kumar government’s innovative measures, has raised its head again following a brutal attack by land-grabbers on dalit families in Patna that killed a woman and injured five people.

He may be one of India’s most infamous politicians convicted for murder, but former RJD MP Pappu Yadav has taken the unlikely step of supporting Gandhian social activist Anna Hazare’s ongoing campaign against corruption by an indefinite fast inside Patna’s Beur Jail.

After spending crores of rupees in elections, leaders of political parties are now competing with each other to support Mr Anna Hazare’s agitation against corruption.
Though the main Opposition BJP is on the forefront to back Mr Hazare, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, RLD chief Ajit Singh, BJS leader Uma Bharti, INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala and others not lagging behind it in backing Mr Hazare.

Noted Gandhian Anna Hazare, who is on a fast-unto-death at Jantar Mantar here demanding strict anti-corruption laws, on Thursday declared that he is willing to continue his fight till he is alive. He said that his battle against corruption would not end any time soon. Addressing his supporters, the social activist declined to end his indefinite hungerstrike and said “this is a do-or-die movement.”

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been chief minister of West Bengal for over 10 years and before that he occupied important ministeriat berths in Jyoti Basu’s Cabinet for over two decades and yet he does not own any movable or immovable assets but Sovan Chatterjee, who had been mayor of Kolkata for one year and was a councillor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation for the past few years, owns assets worth `5 crore jointly with his wife.

Murshidabad Congress strongman and Berhampore MP Adhir Choudhury on Thursday openly campaigned for rebel Congress candidates in Bhagwangola and Saga
rdighi, disregarding Pranab Mukherjee’s warning.

Call it happenstance, a happy coincidence or a cleverly calculated move but railway minister Mamata Banerjee's ministry has been on overdrive these last couple of weeks tom-tomming its ‘achievements'. With West Bengal headed for the Assembly polls, the railways has been busy carrying out what can perhaps be described

The Catholicasabha, the mouthpiece of the Thrissur diocese of the Catholic Church published every month, has stated that the Church has not changed its ‘political stand’.

The Election Commission of India should not function like a political party but should function in a neutral manner like the judiciary, chief minister
and DMK president M.Karunanidhi said.

Former Union minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, the most prominent Muslim face of the BJP, said here on Thursday that there has been a significant change in the mindset of Muslim voters and Muslim youth are no more hesitant to vote for BJP.