The Opposition NDA appears to be in a dilemma on whether to put up a candidate against UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential election.

Thirty pilgrims were killed and another 16 grievously injured when a bus travelling from Hyderabad to Shirdi fell off a bridge in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra early on Saturday morning. Among the dead were 11 software engineers of IT giant Tata Consultancy Ltd who had just completed six months of training.

The controversy over the government’s “one-nation-one-test” proposal escalated Sunday with the faculties of all IITs lashing out at IIT Kharagpur director Damodar Acharya for his support to the government’s move.

The CBI on Monday arrested four senior income-tax officers while accepting bribe.

A day after the state CPI(M) leadership claimed that the VS letter to the central leadership was a “creation of the media”, Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanandan confirmed that he did send it.

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Karnataka’s embattled former chief minister, Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa, stepped back from his decision to quit the party on Monday, ending a two-day crisis that had pushed the government of arch rival D.V.

Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Monday also climbed down from his demand that Karnataka CM Sadananda Gowda should be replaced.

The BJP’s Karnataka crisis went from bad to worse on Sunday, with former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa publicly attacking the party, calling his successor D.V.

Shocking and irresponsible remarks by a state minister and a senior IPS officer left the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh severely embarrassed.