Ministerial hopefuls are waiting anxiously for May-end amid talk that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go in for a major reshuffle of his council of ministers at that time.
According to well-placed sources, Dr Singh could go in for this exercise once the results of the five state Assembly elections are announced on May 13. The terms of the

The election commission of India has mobilised 350 companies of paramilitary forces to conduct free and fair polling in Assam.
Disclosing that army and commandos engaged in counter-insurgency operations would continue to dominate the fringe and vulnerable area, the additional chief

Although election campaign for arguably the most crucial Assembly election has started in full swing, the accompanying sound and fury is missing. The blaring of loudspeakers at every nook and corner of Kolkata would have drowned any conversation in the past but today the city streets are free of noise pollution. No, the

Striking an aggressive note, the senior Congress leader and Union defence minister, Mr A.K. Antony, said on Thursday that the Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, was still talking like an opposition leader and not like someone who led a government for five years. “He was opposition leader in the party and opposition leader in the government.”

The Union defence minister and CWC member, Mr A.K. Antony, on Thursday said the United Democratic Front, the Congress and the people of Kerala knew very well who would be the chief minister if the Opposition coalition was voted to power.

The BJP president Nitin Gadkari here on Thursday committed to prevent infiltration from Bangladesh by implementing state-of-the-art technology on the lines of Israel along the state's international border.

With just two weeks left for the Assembly polls, the Left Democratic Front camp is still unable to project anyone unambiguously as the Chief Minister candidate in stark contrast to the Opposition Congress-led combine which has given the thumbs up to the Opposition leader, Mr Oommen Chandy.

With three more days to go for the first phase of polling to begin on April 4, political parties have intensified their campaigning in Upper Assam’s tea belt where tea tribe communities hold the trump card.

AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa fired more salvoes at DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, saying his only motto is “corruption is possible at anytime and anywhere.”

Union home minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday cautioned the Election Commission against converting the “festive mood”, normally felt during polls, into depression for people involved by imposing unreasonable conditions.