Bihar is heading for multi-cornered contests in the coming electoral battle. While the Congress is the only national party fighting the all seats on its own, the real players in the state are chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Two days ahead of the pronouncement of the Ayodhya title verdict, home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said that it would be inappropriate to reach any hasty conclusion that one side has “won” or that the other side has “lost” and appealed to all the parties to the suits as well as the general public and the media to help maintain peace.

The Uttar Pradesh government has cancelled all peace marches scheduled to be held in the state on the eve of Babri verdict. The state government has also sealed the UP-Nepal and the UP-Uttarakhand border to prevent any kind of infiltration.

The Delhi police will operationalise dedicated lanes for Commonwealth Games from Thursday. The regular traffic would not be closed fully. Those violating the rules and straying into the lanes will be fined `2,000.

The flood threat in the city turned grim as the Yamuna, flowing above the danger mark since long, further swelled on Wednesday and its water level crossed the 207 metre-mark for the first time in 32 years.

The four labourers injured in the collapse of the under-construction foot overbridge near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main Games venue, on Tuesday are still critical and showing “no signs of improvement”.

The Ninth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) will be held in New Delhi from January 7 to 9, 2011.
Making the announcement here Wednesday, Overseas Indian affairs minister Vayalar Ravi said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate it while President P

While the foot-over bridge connecting the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with the parking lot collapsed on Tuesday at least 23 labourers injured, the engineers involved in the project feel that incessant rains are leaving various projects unfinished.

The Delhi police arrested a suspected Pakistani spy who was in Delhi for the last one year allegedly doing recce of Army installations. With the arrest, the police has claimed to have seized confidential documents related to Indian Army from his possession.

Defending the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as an “essential instrument” which gives troops a “security blanket” to operate in strife-torn areas, minister of state for defence M.M. Pallam Raju on Tuesday said the Army was being “demonised” and made a “scapegoat” in Jammu and Kashmir.