The Delhi police has picked up a suspect believed to be involved in the broad daylight killing of DU student Radhika Tanwar on Tuesday. The accused was earlier stalking the deceased but she had resisted his advances.

After the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, it is the turn of the `71,000 crores farm loan waiver, announced in 2008 during UPA-I, to come under the Comptroller and Auditor General of India scanner.

Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday lashed out at former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and his father Deve Gowda and vowed to bring out a booklet detailing all the scams that took place during the tenures of Mr Kumaraswamy and Mr Deve Gowda respectively.

Tension gripped Ajmer city and marble town of Kishangarh after Bhanwar Sinodia’s body, the son of a ruling Congress MLA Nathuram Sinodia, was found in a vehicle near Jaipur on Thursday. He was shot dead after abduction on Wednesday in Ajmer district’s Roopangarh. Mr Sinodia represents Kishangarh constituency in the state Assembly.

The slanging match between the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party, the main Opposition party, intensified on Thursday with both parties claiming to outdo each other on the streets.

Defying prohibitory orders, thousands of Telangana supporters on Thursday marched to the Tank Bund road here during the “million march to Hyderabad” called by pro-Telangana groups.

With the now famous “Gulabi gang” announcing its decision to contest the next state Assembly elections, politics in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh may undergo a drastic change.

As the election scenario hots up in Tamil Nadu, 13 smaller parties in the state, led by DMDK on Thursday, urged the top court to issue a direction to the Election Commission to allot them the same symbol for the upcoming Assembly elections used by them in the last Lok Sabha polls.

The CPI(M) district committee of northern Kasargod has volunteered to offer an Assembly seat to the beleaguered Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthannadan, lending him a last-minute breather.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s remark on granting refugee status to Hindu-Bengali migrants has created a major controversy in the state with the Opposition BJP, AGP and AIUDF criticising the Congress of playing politics on “sensitive and emotional” issues.