Congress rebel and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy is under watch but the Congress high command is unlikely to discipline him right now. The party’s strategy appears to be to ignore him so that his following of party legislators from Andhra Pradesh dwindles before taking any action.

A Delhi court on Saturday directed the police to register an FIR against Hurriyat Conference faction leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and others for allegedly delivering anti-India speeches during a programme in the national capital on October 21. The court, ticking off the police for failing to take action, said that at the stage of registration of an FIR the only thing the police has to see is whether the contents of a complaint disclosed a cognisable offence.

Senior BJP leader Vijay Goel has demanded that the DDA housing scheme, which was launched on November 25, should be limited only to the residents of Delhi and not to all the citizens in the country. He said that allowing people from across the country to apply would possibly attract property dealers and those genuinely in need of flats may be left out in the draw of lots.

Taking a strong step towards preventing absenteeism and dereliction of duty on the part of the teachers and school principals in its schools, the MCD on Saturday placed under suspension one principal, besides several other contractual teachers.

Parts of Srinagar remained under curfew on Friday to thwart a freedom march called by influential separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

The CBI in its latest status report to the Supreme Court on the politically sensitive Sohrabuddin “fake encounter” case has linked former Gujarat minister Amit Shah to Tulsiram Prajapati “fake encount

The disruption of Parliament by the Opposition to press its demand for a JPC into the 2G spectrum allocation scam continues unabated.

With Parliament disrupted for the second week, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are among 80 party MPs who have decided not to take their daily allowance.

Stepping up attack on Karnataka chief minister B.S.

Leader of the Oppostion Sushma Swaraj on Friday made her social networking debut by opening her account on Twitter. Her account attracted over 220 followers in just 24 hours.