The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa seems to be well ahead of its two main rivals — the Congress and the BJP — in the ongoing panchayat elections.

The newly-appointed upa lokayukta, Justice Chandrashekaraiah, caught in the thick of a controversy regarding his appointment said all legal procedures were followed and there is no “illegality” in his appointment as the upa lokayukta.

Much to the discomfort of the UPA, the temperamental chief minister of West Bengal, Ms Mamata Banerjee, appears to be going the way of her Uttar Pradesh counterpart, Ms Mayawati. Even after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh instructed food minister K.V. Thomas to speak to Ms Banerjee to address her concerns on the Food Bill, his ministry appears to be running from pillar to post to get an appointment with the Trinamul Congress chief.

A day after the conclusion of the 20th CPI(M) state conference, re-elected party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan indicated, though indirectly, that his arch rival, Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanandan, had breached organisational principles.

Setting her sights on carving out a larger role in national politics, AIADMK supremo and chief minister Jayalalithaa on Friday asked her partymen to “gift” her with all 40 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 elections.

Contradicting chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda’s claims, former advocate-general B.V.

Karnataka’s hunt for a new Lokayukta just got more difficult after Justice Bellur Narayanaswamy Sri-krishna, who topped the list of nominees for the post of the state’s top ombudsman, turned down the

Shell-shocked Karnataka BJP leaders went on the defensive when two Cabinet ministers in the D.V.

Opting out of the Karnataka Lokayukta post, former Kerala high court Chief Justice S.R. Bannurmath on Tuesday launched a tirade against governor H.R.

Members of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), engaged in the culling of poultry birds, on Monday faced an embarrassing situation in Bhubaneswar.