Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy said here on Sunday that all regions, religions, caste and gender would be given their due share in the new state Cabinet which will be sworn in on Wednesday, December 1.

Legendary sufi singer Abida Parveen has been admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after suffering a heart attack, hospital officials said on Sunday.
According to doctors, she underwent angioplasty and is under observation at ICU for 24 hours. The sufi singer suffered a heart attack Saturday night and was admitted to a local hospital, a family member said in Lahore.

Amidst the stalemate in Parliament over the issue of setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into alleged 2-G spectrum allocation scam, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Sunday accused the government of lacking political will to combat corruption. He also reminded the government of its poll promise of bringing back the black money stashed away in Swiss banks and asked the Centre to ratify the UN convention against corruption.

The CPI has sought the intervention of the Union home ministry alleging that its party cadres and supporters are being “harassed, tortured, brutally assaulted and arrested” by the Chhattisgarh police and CRPF who are branding them as “Maoists’’. The CPI on Sunday demanded the home ministry to “question the Chhattisgarh government’s role in targeting the party and arresting its elected leaders and cadres.”

The government has said that foreign intelligence agencies are making constant efforts to set up bases in the country.
“Government is aware of the efforts being made by foreign intelligence agencies to operate in India,” minister of state for home Ajay Maken said. “Government is constantly monitoring activities of the hostile agencies to subvert individuals and create agents of influence in different institutions both in the public and private domain and has been taking action to neutralise the same wherever necessary,” Mr Maken told Parliament.

The mood is upbeat in ruling BJP circles as chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan completes five years as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on Monday.
The state BJP president Prabhat Jha described Mr Chouhan’s tenure, stretching over two successive terms, as five-years of political stability. In the past, BJP chief

Corruption issue which has damaged the credibility of two national parties and some of their allies, could dominate a three-day AICC plenary session to be held in Delhi the third week of December.

Delhi Assembly’s deputy speaker got a taste of the poor law and order situation in the city when thieves made away with his recently-purchased car from outside his son’s residence in east Delhi on Sunday.

The Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer, arrested on charges of leaking information to corporates, Ravi Inder Singh, has been placed under suspension.
According to sources the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) will also initiate administrative action against the officer.

A vertical split has taken place in the Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad with a group of Hindu saints here electing its new office-bearers in Allahabad on Friday.
Supporters of Mahant Gyan Das, who is the parishad head, boycotted the meeting.