Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa earned respite a day after the Lokayukta police commenced an inquiry against him in the case of illegal denotification and acquisition of land with the Karnataka high court ordering a stay of the special court’s verdict on Tuesday.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal is now making a conscious effort to spread its base in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
The party, which so far had a base only in western UP, is now aiming for a foothold in other parts of the state as well.

With Bihar’s craze for cricket clashing with darkness in the power-starved state amid growing agitations, the state’s MLAs have made the unprecedented demand for an early adjournment of the ongoing Assembly session and uninterrupted power supply on Wednesday to watch the India-Pakistan semi-final match in the World Cup.

Describing Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s response over the Shunglu Committee findings as “astonishing”, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should now take a call on the issue. The party said it was an “unusual and unacceptable position” that Ms Dikshit rejected the findings of the report without even reading the report of the committee, set up by the Prime Minister himself on the Commonwealth Games (CWG) issue.

On the eve of high-profile India-Pakistan World Cup match, Union information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni has intervened in the ongoing crisis between the electronic media and the ICC, after the media was barred from covering Wednesday’s event.

Wiser perhaps on hindsight, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has issued directions on behalf of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking that the common man should not be inconvenienced on account of his visit to Chandigarh for Wednesday’s Indo-Pak cricket match.

Security across Jammu and Kashmir has been beefed up further ahead of the India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match at Mohali. Yet the authorities are keeping their fingers crossed as the passion run high with the population’s devotion being at variance rather diametrically opposed.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosting his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani at PCA Stadium in Mohali to watch the high-octane World Cup semi-final encounter between the two countries, India’s top politicos, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi and many Union ministers, have also decided not to lag behind in becoming part of the sporting event, which has created a lot of frenzy.

This election, college students are turning polling officers in Tamil Nadu. Thanks to Election Commission’s proactive role, many collegians in the state will become the ambassadors of Indian Constitution and democracy. All districts are roping in computer science and IT students for election duty.

The Election Commission has failed to deter Assam food and civil supply department from distributing freebies like rice at of Rs 6 a kg and beneficiaries’ cards carrying photographs of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to voters.