The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a petition seeking to make public entire text of the “Radia tapes” recorded by the Income-Tax department’s investigation wing in the public interest as a portion of it had revealed how the government decisions were sought to be affected by corporate lobby.

Even as the ruling JD(U) and other parties in Bihar observed dalit and socialist icon Karpoori Thakur’s birth anniversary on Monday, a dharna by Rajya Sabha member and senior JD(U) leader Upendra Kushwaha against the state government and his party leadership stuck out like a sore thumb.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday held deliberations with senior party leaders Pranab Mukherjee, A.K. Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad against the backdrop of developments in Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka.

Is Mr M. Karunanidhi opting out of the chief ministerial race in the coming Assembly polls? Fuelling fresh speculation about his retirement plans, chief minister Karunanidhi said his DMK cadres like him more as the party president than as CM.

The Election Commission of India on Monday termed the paid news phenomenon a complex problem and suggested that it could be dispensed with if “self-regulation” is observed by the media and political parties.

Former SP leader Amar Singh’s Lok Manch has hit a rough patch.
His fledgling political outfit that was formed in June last year, now shows signs of disintegrating.
About four dozen Lok Manch activists returned to the parent Samajwadi Party on Sunday. Prominent among them included Anil Rajbhar, state president of Lok Manch, A

The Congress foresees a mid-term Assembly election in Karnataka, saying it would be the ruling BJP which can advance polls. Chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who has been facing private complaints on alleged corruption relating to illegal land deals, became the first ever chief minister in Karnataka’s history to face prosecution on corruption charges.

Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said he was planning to file a defamation case against governor H.R. Bhardwaj for the comments made against him as well as the public outbursts against the government. Mr Bhardwaj had termed the Cabinet resolution asking him not to allow the prosecution of the CM “the thief complaining against the police” and this has angered Mr Yeddyurappa no end. However, he did not specify which comment or outburst he was distressed about.

Less than 24 hours after chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa announced he would not challenge the governor’s order to sanction action against him, the chief minister’s son-in-law R.N. Sohan Kumar moved two applications before the Lokayukta special court where he cited former chief minister H.D. Kumarswamy as a co-accused in the

The Dalit authors aired their views when they got an audience during the Jaipur Literature Festival and narrated their tales of joy and sorrow. “It is a beginning and is good for us.