The Kerala High Court on Wednesday slammed the Chief Electoral Officer of the state for stopping the implementation of the state government’s new scheme for providing rice at Rs 2 per kg to all ration card holders.

A section of CPI(M) leaders in Delhi are upset over the party state secretariat's decision to drop Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan from contesting in the Kerala assembly polls.

The CPI(M) decision to deny an Assembly ticket to the Kerala Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, may not trigger passionate street protests as in 2006, but the party will have a hard time explaining it to people in the 140 Assembly segments across the State.

The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Wednesday decided to nominate former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta from a second constituency against one of the most high-profile ministers of the Gogoi cabinet Rockybul Hussain.

If the ruling Congress party is playing the Hindu refugee card, the BJP is looking to gain Vaishnavite sentiments to woo indigenous Hindu voters in Assam.
With an obvious objective to capitalise the influence of Satras—Vaishnavite monasteries, the saffron party was focusing its activities on these ancient shrines, which are

AICC general secretary and in-charge of party affairs in Assam Digvijay Singh on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of reviewing the list of Congress nominees for the ensuing Assembly elections in Assam.

AICC general secretary and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel called up Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday evening and requested her to defer her decision on seat-sharing till March 21 when Mrs Gandhi is supposed to return from her UK trip. “Didi informed him that it was

One more knot was added to the spectrum scam with the suicide of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of A. Raja and also a key witness for the CBI probing the money trail in the multi-crore crime.

Two men have been arrested in the robbery-cum-murder case in which Gaurav Gambhir of Gambhir Jewellers was killed at Krishna Nagar on February 23.
According to the police, one accused, Mohammad Sabir, was arrested in Lucknow by an east Delhi police team. At his instance, the other accused, Mohammad Anis,

In a rare surgery, a surgeon removed a malignant tumour in the thigh bone and replaced the bone with an artificial limb made of titanium instead of amputating the leg from the hip to save the patient’s life.