In what is being seen as an attempt to woo Hindu Bengali voters ahead of the Assembly elections, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday adopted the line of BJP and announced that the ruling Congress party would seek refugee status for the displaced Hindu Bengalis, who fled East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, fearing prosecution.

If Trinamul Congress leader and railway minister Mamata Banerjee appeared pleased on Tuesday, it was not perhaps without reason. For the leader whose party is heading for the West Bengal Assembly polls in just a few weeks from now appears to be having the upper hand as far as a seat-sharing arrangements with the Congress goes.

Bihar’s ruling JD(U) on Tuesday pushed itself closer to a showdown after a disciplinary committee recommended severe action against 11 MPs among nearly 200 other leaders for their alleged anti-party activities during 2010 Assembly polls.

A Delhi court on Tuesday deferred the framing of charges against the 13 accused in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts, in which 26 people were killed.
Additional sessions judge (ASJ) Santosh Snehi Mann said, “As the matter is being heard by the Supreme Court today (Tuesday) regarding clubbing of all blast cases in Delhi, therefore, we fix March 24 for the formal framing of charges against all accused.”

The gruesome murder of a Delhi University college student in broad daylight south Delhi set off a political blamegame in the city. While the West Delhi Congress MP Mahabal Mishra blamed the Union home ministry “directly” for the incident, the BJP on Tuesday said that there is a “vacuum” in the capital after chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s remark that women do not have a sense of security as in other Metro cities.

Despite tall talks of women empowerment when it comes to political empowerment, the fair sex fairs poorly in Delhi. Out of the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi, only three have women legislators, which includes chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who has been in power for 12 years now.

In an apparent snub to the Delhi police, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday expressed anger against the deteriorating law and order situation in the city by stating: “It is a matter of shame that women do not feel secure in the capital of the country”.

A 31-year-old housewife was found dead under mysterious circumstances with her family alleging the role of her husband in the death. Her husband is absconding.
The incident was reported from Jagrati Enclave on Tuesday evening. The family of the deceased, Neha Kukreja, staged a protest demanding police action against her

As the assailant in the broad daylight shooting of Delhi University college student Radhika Tanwar on Tuesday morning keeps out of the cops’ reach, the police officials claimed that a jilted lover could be involved in the murder.

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