Mumbai attacks co-accused David Headley, who scouted Shiv Sena headquarters, on Tuesday testified there was a plot involving his handlers in Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and terror outfit LeT to assassinate Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley will be conferred honorary doctorates by Britain's University of Wolverhampton here on Wednesday.

The Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has decided to embarrass the Congress by raising the issue of Muslim reservation on the eve of Assembly elections in UP.

The Central Information Commission has asked Rajya Sabha chairman to take a decision on whether disclosure of file notes, under the RTI Act, on notices and questions received from members will be a breach of Parliamentary privilege.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the row over the issue of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) will not have any impact on the ties between his party and the Congress in the state.

Union minister for environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said here that Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was interested in taking up the task of clearing of the 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union carbide factory premises here.

With the cost of replying to her applications under RTI, seeking information on NRHM and Janani Surakhsa Yojna in Uttar Pradesh, likely to run into several lakh rupees, UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi has now sought the details in a digital format instead of a printed version.

The CPI has termed the drubbing of the Left in the recent Assembly elections in West Bengal as a “serious political setback’’ which calls for introspection and the need to win back the confidence of people who’ve been alienated during the span of the 34 year long rule of the Left Front in Bengal.

After the severe drubbing at the hustings in West Bengal, the CPI on Wednesday said it would witness leadership change at the party Congress in 2012.

Recent statements and remarks by some Congress leaders are creating confusion within the party which is finding it difficult to either defend or distance itself from them.