Cornered, DMK is looking for options to wriggle out of the situation at a meeting of the party’s top brass being held in Chennai on Friday. But these developments have not worried the ruling coalition as the government is confident

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is on an indefinite hungerstrike against black money and corruption, on Thursday claimed that his four trusts are worth over `1,100 crores. He also mentioned that everything in the four trusts, which he heads, was in order.

The race is on for the post of West Bengal PCC chief. Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s political secretary Pradyut Guha, apparently, has an edge over the other candidate, Mr Pradeep Bhattacharya.

Controversy dogs India’s iconic artist Maqbool Fida Husain even after his death in the Royal Brompton Hospital in London on Thursday.

Government on Friday said the verdict in the Tahawwur Rana case in a US court, holding the Pakistani-Canadian not guilty for the Mumbai attacks, is not a setback as India does not rely overtly on prosecution of terror suspects in other countries.

Noted painter M.F. Husain, who was living in self-imposed exile due to reported threat from some right-wing Hindu outfits over his controversial paintings of the Hindu gods and goddesses, faced a large number of cases across the country.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, accused in the 2G spectrum case, on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking bail.

On the day M.F. Husain died, two of his paintings went under the hammer at Christie’s in London, amid expectations worldwide, and heightened in India, that the death will now increase the value of his works.
The expectations were both belied and fulfilled at Christie’s auction in London on Thursday. Lot-116, Sita with the

Industrial production registered a growth of 6.3 per cent in April as per the new series that was released today with a base year of 2004-05, but the slowdown of the economy was clear as factory output nosedived to just 4.4 per cent as per the old series.

The government rode its luck in dealing with the yoga manipulator Ramdev and is lucky to have come through, if a little bruised. But its first instincts in dealing with Ramdev were unbecoming and worrisome. The Manmohan regime could scrape through this past week only because the yoga teacher rapidly revealed his true colours.