In the run up to US President Barack Obama’s visit to India, security agencies have got information that Pakistan-based militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e- Mohammad and Al Badr are planning to unleash violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Nearly 80 militants armed with sophisticated weapons are waiting across the Line of

In a major face off between the government and the main Opposition BJP over Jammu and Kashmir, home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday rejected the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley’s remark that the Centre “chose to look other way” at a time when Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani talked about “azadi” at a function here on Thursday.

The BJP on Friday clarified that its rebel MLAs in Karnataka, who were disqualified by the Assembly Speaker, were no more in the party fold.
The party also denied that it was luring Congress and JD(S) legislators through horse-trading.

The BJP on Friday alleged the Congress was “running out of ideas” after a senior Congress leader compared AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi with socialist stalwart Jayaprakash Narayan.

In Bihar’s ongoing electoral battle between heavyweight rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav, it is the Congress party that seems to be scoring more points in the war of political advertisements playing constantly on the state’s local television channels. Hitting the TV screens just before the Assembly polls began on Thursday, the Congress party’s stinging ad campaigns aim at outwitting the main competition coming from the ruling JD(U)-BJP’s persuasive feel-good ads. While the Congress,

A 35-year-old man was shot dead and his car snatched by unidentified assailants on Mother Teresa Road in south Delhi on Tuesday night.
Police officials said the deceased, identified as Shiv Narayan, a resident of Dauspur area in Palwal, Haryana, was found by a pedestrian near Bhati Mines in Fatehpur Beri area at around 9.30 am and he alerted the police control room. “He was hit by two bullets in chest and foot. We took the man to AIIMS Trauma Centre where he was declared brought dead,” a police official said.

The Delhi BJP on Wednesday again targeted chief minister Sheila Dikshit by seeking her ouster to ensure a free and fair probe into the alleged corruption in the just-concluded Commonwealth Games. Delhi BJP chief Vijendra Gupta on Wednesday sought inclusion of the chief minister in the ambit of investigation into the allegations of corruption in the Games.

Apart from the 16 initial projects which the CVC was investigating in connection with the Commonwealth Games, the watchdog agency is also looking into some other allegations of corruption pertaining to supply of three-dimensional displays of the Games Mascot “Shera” and re-modelling and upgradation in Major Dhyan Chand

Denying allegations of involvement in any financial irregularities as a contractor for the Commonwealth Games, BJP national council member Sudhanshu Mittal on Wednesday complained he was being made a “political scapegoat”.

Indicating, in the backdrop of a possible reshuffle in the Union council of ministers, that it was time for him to head some other ministry, civil aviation minister Praful Patel on Wednesday said that “maybe”, it was time for him to “move on” from the civil aviation ministry. Soon after, however, the minister told this newspaper he had made the comment “in jest”.