The Jammu and Kashmir police has begun a crackdown on BJP activists as the party’s youth-wing is adamant to hoist the tricolour at Srinagar’s historic Lal Chowk on Republic Day despite the official ban.

With the BJP threatening to hoist the National Flag on Republic Day at Lal Chowk in Srinagar in troubled J&K, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a statement on Saturday evening calling for “maximum restraint” in the “sensitive state”.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar reddy on Saturday said that while Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy had entered politics a year or two years ago, others, like himself, had been around much longer.

Division in the Opposition parties on the Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s according sanction for prosecution against chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on the allegations of corruption, has come to the fore.

A day after Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj sanctioned orders to prosecute state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the BJP said its leader Mr Yeddyurappa would continue in office and the governor will “have to bite the dust.”

Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Saturday sent a report to the Union home ministry citing the reasons why he sanctioned prosecution against state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in alleged land scams. The report said that the governor had sought all the required documents in connection with the alleged land scams and had

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday flayed the BJP for its stand on Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj granting sanction to prosecute the chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and said the governor’s decision was in accordance with the law.

A 22-year-old engineering student, who was apparently not able to cope with his studies, shot himself dead in neighbouring Ghaziabad on Saturday. A suicide note was recovered from his possession.

The municipal elections in the capital are some time away but the political posturing of the two main parties, the BJP and the Congress, seems to have begun in the right earnest. And, when it comes to scouting for secure votebanks, the parties look towards the unauthorised colonies, where nearly 40 lakh residents are estimated to

The Delhi Election Commission has decided to rope in theatre actors who would stage nukkad nataks in the city to elicit interest among the youth towards voting. The week-long event, beginning January 21, is to mark the National Voters Day. The plays would be held at 106 places between 11 am and 5.30 pm in four different zones, into which the city has been broadly divided.