A day after talks on Lokpal Bill got deadlocked, Anna Hazare on Thursday accused the government of having no intention of enacting a strong anti-corruption law and said he will undertake an indefinite fast from August 16 if a diluted legislation is brought.

The government could even cancel the Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries’ biggest gas find in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin’s D6 block if the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India nails the company in its final report for furnishing fake bills or using fraudulent means to inflate expenditure, according to petroleum ministry sources.

Hours after UP chief minister Mayawati said that she was not averse to recommending a CBI probe into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur, the parents of the victim gave a letter to the district magistrate of Lakhimpur saying that they wanted a CBI inquiry into their daughter’s killing.

BJP on Thursday hit back at Congress for seeking an apology from party chief Nitin Gadkari for his remarks on Sonia Gandhi, saying it should first say sorry for using terms like “merchant of death” and “man-eater” against a "popular chief minister” of the party.

The Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI), of which Mr Mohan Dharia is chairman, has said in a note to the government that “the time has come for the political wing of society to state categorically and unambiguously that they are answerable to the people through Parliament and state legislatures”. Else, the day may not be far when

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday asked members of the civil society to take the issue of Lokpal bill to the people of the country and then let them decide on it in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Even as the civil society members of the Lokpal Bill Joint Drafting Committee called the meetings a “drama”, home minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said the proposed legislation will be drafted by the deadline of June 30.

Failing to arrive at a consensus on contentious provisions in the proposed Lokpal Bill, the two sides in the joint drafting committee — five government ministers and five civil society members led by Anna Hazare — on Wednesday agreed to meet again on June 20 and 21 to bridge the “strong differences”. However, if they fail again in

With the BJP-ruled states — Karnataka and Uttarakhand — facing heat from the Centre for different reasons, senior saffron leader L.K. Advani on Wednesday accused the UPA government of jeopardising the country’s federal structure and demanded revival of the Inter-State Council to discuss issues and grievances of the state.

Rahul Gandhi has got “all the qualities and capabilities” that are required to become a “good” Prime Minister, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday said.