Prompted by the BJP’s national leadership all the five party ministers and two chief parliamentary secretaries resigned from their positions in the Punjab government in what is being seen as an attempt to limit damage amidst allegations of corruption.

The Madhya Pradesh government’s hopes that the Union Carbide plant structure be converted into a memorial dedicated to victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster has been shot down by the nine-member GoM chaired by home minister P. Chidambaram.

Trinamool Congress-led alliance appears set to sweep West Bengal, AIADMK-led coalition looks well ahead in Tamil Nadu, while there is a close contest between ruling LDF and UDF in Kerala in the counting of votes in the Assembly elections in four states that began on Friday.

BJP parliamentary party chairman L.K. Advani on Thursday said US did not inform Pakistan about its operation against Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in Pakistan’s garrison town of Abbottabad, as it did not trust the Pakistani authorities. Mr Advani, writing on the issue in his blog, said Bin Laden could not have been hiding in Pakistan without the knowledge of the country’s Army and intelligence chiefs.

Trinamool Congress-led alliance was on the cusp of a historic victory in West Bengal while Congress appeared set to capture Kerala and retain Assam but its ally DMK was facing rout in Tamil Nadu in the elections to state assemblies.

Trying hard to battle the label of being a scam-ridden government, UPA-II now appears to be going all out to shrug off this label.
So the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) issued a statement on Thursday informing that India has recently completed the process of ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday hailed the TMC-Congress victory in West Bengal as a win for the alliance and took digs at leaders from both parties who were opposed to the tie-up.

Pakistan’s ISI was behind the terror plot to target the Indian Consulate General in Jalalabad and had given `120 crore for the operation, two persons arrested by Afghan authorities said.

'Paribortan' — the poll plank of Trinamool Congress — found an echo on Friday in the words of senior CPI(M) leaders who said the people of West Bengal have voted for "change" and Mamata Banerjee has benefitted from it.

The pistol wielding youth detained by Uttar Pradesh police at Kasna police station premises, where Rahul Gandhi was held Wednesday night, was found to be part of Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s security detail.