Business was booming for flower sellers in the Chinese border city of Dandong on Wednesday as mourners gathered at the North Korean consulate to pay their respects to late leader Kim Jong-Il.

The stalemate between striking doctors and the Rajasthan government continued for the seventh day on Tuesday while the agitating doctors faced public ire in different parts of the state. The strike badly hit the medical and health services across the state and it claimed more than 64 lives. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot again made an appeal to the striking doctors to resume their work and cautioned them about the rise in public anger.

Death often leaves a rude shock. That’s what it did on Tuesday. It walked away with the precious life of K. Venugopal, our senior editor. Venu, as we fondly call him, was only 42 years when the end came. However, in refulgence, he was much younger at heart.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday, launched a frontal attack on UP chief minister Mayawati when he questioned her credentials as a dalit leader and also her commitment to fight against corruption.

Four members of a family were found dead at a locked flat under mysterious circumstances at Kankurgachhi in Manicktala, in Kolkata, on Monday. The flat, situated at the ground floor of the four-storeyed VRS Estate quarters in CIT Scheme, was bolted from inside for over 24 hours, according to preliminary investigations.

The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi case, has ascertained the identity of the person who ordered the killing of the 36-year-old Jodhpur's auxiliary nurse-cum-folk singer. The agency is set to file supplementary chargesheet in the case within a month.

Tension prevailed in Assam on Monday when the police in a mid-night crackdown removed the anti-dam protesters who were blocking NH-52 connecting Arunachal Pradesh for the past one week in Dhemaji and North Lakhimpur districts of Assam.

In a political masterstroke that will benefit all the three major constituents of Jharkhand’s coalition government, chief minister Arjun Munda has announced a scheme of lifelong monthly pension for all activists of the four-decade movement for a separate state.

The Akali Dal-BJP combine is not only fighting against their political adversaries in the forthcoming elections to capture the power in Punjab, but has also history to fight with as no incumbent government has ever repeated in the state so far. It is to be seen whether development as poll plank used by Akalis to retain the power would be enough to change the history in the elections.

A two-day summit of MLAs and MLCs of Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal (United) at the hill resort of Rajgir saw chief minister and party stalwart Nitish Kumar hearing out their concerns and suggestions with patience and offering them perceptive advice about politics and governance.