The mock Parliament session held in the Lok Sabha recently came under attack at an all-party meeting on Wednesday in which Speaker Meira Kumar virtually held that a minuscule minority of four per cent of members was holding the majority to ransom.

Karnataka home minister V.S. Acharya’s made a gaffe in announcing that People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nasser Madani’s was involved in the KSCA serial blasts. The minister was meant to speak about Madani’s involvement in the 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts during the press briefing on Tuesday. Mr Acharya, who was

Describing that it was “very unfair” on the part of BSP chief Mayawati-led UP government to forcibly acquire farmers’ land in Aligarh and adjoining areas for a road project, young Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed the issue with him.

The Metro line to Gurgaon is set to become fully operational in the first week of September as the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety R.K. Kardam has confirmed August 30 and 31 as the date of inspection of the Central Secretariat-Qutab Minar stretch. The DMRC will also make operational Chhattarpur Metro Station on the Qutab Minar-

With MPs getting a pay hike and Delhi MLAs in the line, the municipal councillors in the capital do not want to be left out. The councillors are demanding fixed salaries as against allowances and perks they get. Unsurprisingly, there was support across the party lines on the issue.

Appearing before a division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan, standing counsel of the Delhi police, Najmi Waziri, filed an affidavit and submitted that the MCD was not cooperating with it in the investigation into the ghost employee scam in which salary was paid to more than 22,000 non-existent staffers.

With 54 fresh cases reported on Wednesday, the total number of dengue cases in the capital reached 530, raising questions over the ability of the civic agencies to check the spread of the disease in time for the Common-wealth Games. The fact that the incidence of dengue tends to go up in the month of September and continues till the better part of October, which is the time when the Games are going to be held, can only worsen the situation.

A 32-year-old pregnant woman died under highly mysterious circumstances in Bindapur area on Tuesday with her relatives alleging that she was poisoned by her husband for dowry.

Mumbai Congress leaders want the party to fight the coming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections on its own after defeating the Shiv Sena-MNS and the BJP on its home turf in the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly polls twice since 2004. The Congress, too, is not keen to have a pre-poll alliance with the Sharad Pawar-led party in this election.

The RJD leaders are hopeful that the Muslim support will come back to the party in this year’s Bihar Assembly election, after party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was declared the chief ministerial candidate of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Lok Janshakti Party combine.