Intensifying their agitation, several Congress MPs and MLAs, who quit their posts recently, on Wednesday began a 48-hour hungerstrike to highlight their demand for a separate Telangana state.

The country’s commercial capital bounced back to life just over 12 hours after three blasts shook the city, as the people of Mumbai responded splendidly to the latest terror strike.

Admitting that there was no credible intelligence input on the Mumbai attack, home minister P. Chidambaram today did not rule out any angle, including the possibility of an attempt to derail Indo-Pak talks, behind the blasts.

Multiple blasts rocked India’s financial hub Mumbai today evening, the police said, in what the home ministry described as a "terror strike".

Here is a chronology of major bomb blasts in Mumbai since 1993:
March 12, 1993: A series of bomb blasts ripped through 13 places in the city, killing 257 people and injuring 713.

At least 13 people were killed and 81 injured in three blasts that rocked Mumbai this evening, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said.

DMK president M. Karunanidhi, who has been sore with the Congress ever since his party faced a rout in the Assembly elections and over the subsequent arrest of his daughter Kanimozhi by the Central Bureau of Investigation, is reportedly happy over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remarks that he kept two Cabinet slots vacant for the DMK and it was part of coalition dharma.

The treasure unearthed from Sri Padma-nabhaswamy temple at Thiruvananthapuram, Kera-la, has triggered speculation that the Sri Adikesavaperu-mal temple of Thiruvattar, in Kanyakumari district, which was under the rule of the Travancore kings, has a share in the treasure.

The treasure unearthed from Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has triggered speculation that the Sri Adikesavaperumal temple of Thiruvattar, in Kanyakumari district, which was under the rule of the Travancore kings, has a share in the treasure.

The political turmoil in Andhra Pradesh, with agitations and resignations of politicians on the contentious issue of bifurcation, may work against Andhra Pradesh when it comes to politicians from the state being included in the Union Cabinet when the impending reshuffle happens.