The official residence of the ailing senior JD(U) leader and former defence minister George Fernandes witnessed his close aid Jaya Jaitly and two brothers, Michael and Richard, slugging it out with the police to get an entry into the premise but were denied. The three-hour long stand-off continued at 3, Krishna Menon Marg in the presence of a full strength media, with Ms Jaitly and the two brothers pleading that they had come to collect their belongings only.

MISS UNIVERSE Stefania Fernandez would come to India on a tour to support the cause of raising awareness against AIDS and against female foeticide.

Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia released the Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam, the great quest of Ramayana authored by Union law and justice minister Dr M. Veerappa Moily on Wednesday.

Tamil Nadu- based Lakshmi Vilas Bank may go in for a qualified institutional placement of up to Rs 400 crore.
The board of the private sector bank has already passed the enabling resolution and a final approval at the AGM is awaited.

For BJP chief Mr Nitin Gadkari, selection of state-incharge is proving to be tough task. More than three months after Mr Gadkari announced his team, filling the post of party’s state in-charge still remain an incomplete task.

The implementation of the mobile number portability (MNP) has once again been postponed. The telecom ministry has now set October 31, as the new deadline for the implementation of the MNP.

Central leaders of the Congress are unlikely to be involved in the campaigning in the Naxal-influenced areas during the Bihar Assembly elections likely to be held in October this year.

The government will decide the periodicity for reviewing petrol prices in three weeks, according to petroleum secretary Mr S. Sundareshan.
“Oil marketing companies and the government will jointly take a decision on how often petrol prices should be revised. The revision of petrol prices depends on several f

Nanoor in Birbhum district was once again on the boil following the brutal murder of a former CPI(M) MLA Ananda Das. CPI(M)’s Birbhum district secretary Dilip Ganguly has blamed the Trinamul Congress for the mayhem.

“Poland 2 England 1” English fans teased their German counterparts during the break of their team’s round of 16 clash with Germany on Sunday. The English supporters were referring to the Polish ancestry of Germany’s goal-scorers, Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski. The Germans brushed aside the taunts of the English fans because