The BJP has announced its support to Baba Ramdev’s ongoing campaign against corruption.
In an informal chat with reporters here on Thursday, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said that “corruption” was a film being produced by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

In a last-ditch effort to dissuade yoga guru Baba Ramdev from going ahead with his proposed fast against black money from Saturday, Union ministers Kapil Sibal and Subodh Kant Sahay met him at a hotel here, activists from Ramdev’s movement said.

In a bid to address the feeling of alienation often expressed by the people in Northeast, the UPA government has decided to bring higher judiciary closer to the common man in the region. The government is contemplating to set up three new high courts in the region, aimed at expansion of judicial access for the region and fulfilling the decades old demand.

It seems all is not well within the so-called moderate faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance even after it revoked its earlier decision suspending one of its founding constituents, Jammu and Kashmir Itehad-ul-Muslimeen, over its patron moulvi Abbas Ansari’s holding a meeting with the Centre’s interlocutors in April 2011.

Government representatives in the Joint Drafting Committee of Lokpal Bill on Thursday night reviewed the progress made in framing the anti-corruption legislation and firmed up their response to the six contentious issues over which they have differences with civil society counterparts.

With barely 24 hours left for his “satyagraha” against corruption and black money, the government on Friday initiated a fresh round of talks with Baba Ramdev to persuade him to give up his proposed agitation.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will be the target of attack when state Congress leaders meet President Pratibha Patil on Friday seeking her intervention in the wake of the alleged corruption of `1 lakh crore during his tenure.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar with Pakistan MP Kashmala Tariq at Parliament House in New Delhi on Thursday.

Union ministers Kapil Sibal and Subodh Kant Sahay on Friday failed to reach an agreement with Baba Ramdev even after four hours of talks on the yoga guru’s threat to go on an indefinite fast against corruption.

Six months after settling back in power armed with a massive mandate, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar is now finding itself increasingly under political attacks due to the inappropriate behaviour of some of its ministers and MLAs and taking cautious steps at corrections.