Maharashtra chief minister Prithiviraj Chavan has no plans to call on Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray in a bid to seek his party’s support to the controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project.

The CBI has alleged that DMK MP Kanimozhi was an "active brain" behind the operation of Kalaignar TV and actively pursued with intermediaries and her party the reappointment of 2G scam accused A. Raja as telecom minister.

In a move to strengthen its support base among backward castes, women and minorities ahead of the local body elections next year, the Maharashtra Congress is celebrating a year-long Samajik Samata Varsha (social equality year) from April 14, the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.

Harvard scholar Lobsang Sangay was on Wednesday elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile and would take over the political duties relinquished by spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Amidst opposition demand for his removal, Puducherry Lt governor Iqbal Singh on Wednesday met Union home minister P. Chidambaram and apprised him of his questioning by Enforcement Directorate over his recommendation for issuing a passport to alleged tax evader Hasan Ali Khan.

Former BJP MP from Pali Pushp Jain said Gujarat IPS Sanjeev Bhatt has no right to come as crusader as he was involved in framing a false case against advocate Sumer Singh Rajpurohit to settle a property dispute.

In a complaint to the Election Commission, CPI(M) on Wednesday alleged that Union home minister P. Chidambaram and his ministry were trying to "portray" the Left Front as "aggressor" in West Bengal, thereby violating the model code of conduct in place in the state.

The Congress on Tuesday further stepped up its attack against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots in 2004 by asking for a Supreme Court monitored investigations into recent revelations made by some police officers.

The strike by about 800 pilots of Air India began to show its impact with the national carrier cancelling 24 flights from the city On Wednesday, leaving passengers in the lurch.

The CBI probe into the mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, an alleged business associate of former telecom minister A. Raja, has not revealed anything suspicious.
Sources in the agency said, “Agency’s probe into Batcha’s death has not revealed anything suspicious. The agency officials constructed the chain of events and found