The main Opposition BJP on Wednesday demanded resignation of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati over the issue of farmers protests in Greater Noida.
With AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi meeting the agitating farmers and pledging his support for them by sitting on a dharna, the party also asked the Centre and

Hindu activist Swami Aseemanand on Thursday told a court here that he had no role in the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing that killed 68 people, mainly Pakistanis.

The BJP is likely to reshuffle its ministers in the Prakash Singh Badal-led government in Punjab. Two of its senior-most leaders in the state, who are also part of the SAD-BJP government, have been named in a bribery case. The party has also decided that its Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will continue at the post

A day after the Supreme Court lifted a gag order on his tapped telephonic conversations, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Thursday admitted that the tapes had his voice but alleged a cut and paste job.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi created a furor in political circles when he reached the violence-hit Bhatta parsaul village in Greater Noida in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to meet the agitating farmers.

Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into "atrocities" on farmers demanding higher compensation for their land that has been taken for a highway project in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida area.

RLD chief Ajit Singh, after meeting the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, stated that he has been assured of the government bringing a bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act in the coming session of Parliament. Mr Singh led a delegation to the Prime Minister to apprise him of the issue of the farmers in western UP being up in arms against land acquisition by the UP government.

The Supreme Court's rejection of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea asking for more stringent punishment for the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy was a "telling comment" on the government's attitude, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Wednesday.

The blame game between the leaders of the two national parties — the Congress and the BJP — on the PAC’s draft report on the 2G scam is violating the spirit of functioning of parliamentary committees which do not function on party lines. While Congress leaders are mounting pressure on the Speaker to reject the report, the Opposition has made Union minister P. Chidambaram the main target of its attack.

Rajya Sabha DMK MP Kanimozhi was on Tuesday exempted from personal appearance for two days in connection with the 2G spectrum scam case by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court which allowed her to appear on May 12 before the Chennai income-tax office to respond to summons for alleged tax evasion.