Sitting BSP MLA Farid Mehfooz Kidwai, created a flutter in political circles on Monday when he joined the Samajwadi Party.
Mr Kidwai, who represents the Masauli Assembly segment in Barabanki district, is the first sitting BSP MLA to quit the party.

Expressing satisfaction over the Supreme Court’s interim order staying the Allahabad high court direction for tripartite division of the disputed land in Ayodhya, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is also representing one of the parties in the case said, “There will be no change of situation at ground zero (the make-shift temple of

The BJP top brass has asked its chief ministers to go in for social audit as well as cautioned them to keep a close eye on issues related to corruption.
A two-day conclave of chief ministers of BJP-ruled states began in the capital on Monday.

BJP leader Rajnath Singh and SP leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Mohan Singh were detained by the police along with their supporters when they tried to proceed towards Greater Noida where prohibitory orders are in force since Saturday’s violence.

The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari to appear before it on June 1 and give his blood samples for DNA test to ascertain a 31-year-old man's claim that he is his biological son.

After converting a petition filed by the pilots’ union into a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench comprising Justices Vikramajit Sen and Siddharth Mridul of the Delhi high court on Monday decided to look into the problems faced by Air India which led to a strike by its pilots recently saying it is a matter of public interest which the nation wants to know.

The situation was on Tuesday tense but under control in parts of western UP hit by farmers' unrest over land acquisition as police released sketches of 24 trouble-makers who incited violence in Agra and maintained a strict vigil.

Sporadic incidents of Naxal violence, coupled with low polling, marked the byelection to Bastar (ST) Lok Sabha constituency in south Chhattisgarh on Sunday.

The Delhi high court will on Monday hear the bail pleas of five corporate honchos, including the promoter of Etisalat DB, Sanjay Chandra, in connection with the 2G spectrum fraud case.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Allahabad high court's verdict dividing in three parts the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya, terming as "something strange" the judgement although the parties had not asked for trifurcation of the land.