Ever since DMK president M. Karunanidhi called an emergency meeting of the party’s high level committee on Friday without even mentioning the agenda, speculation is rife that the octogenarian, who is seething with anger at the Congress, would pull out his ministers from the UPA government.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday demanded that the body of painter M.F. Husain be brought back to India and the final rites for him should be performed in Maharashtra.

India on Thursday successfully test-fired surface-to-surface Prithvi-II (P-II) missile from interim test range (ITR) at Chandipur in Orissa’s Balasore district, nearly 300 km from here.
Thursday’s test firing was fourth such exercise in the last eight months.

In a joint rally on Thursday, leaders from the Shiv Sena, BJP and RPI vowed to end the Congress-NCP reign in Maharashtra, and claimed that their three-party alliance will last forever. Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray also severely criticised NCP leader and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi.

Blaming DMK for the drubbing in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections, Congress has said there is a need to take a "relook" at its strategy in the southern state as the party must not lose its vote bank due to "mistakes of its coalition partners".

Sangh Parivar leader Sadhvi Ritambhara on Friday said controversies and talk on individuals should be brushed aside, and the full energy and focus should be on the issue of tackling corruption and black money.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Friday began a three-day exercise to introspect on the reasons for its defeat in the West Bengal and Kerala Assembly polls.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday adopted a unanimous resolution urging the Union government to impose economic sanctions on Sri Lanka till the island nation ensured the resettlement of Tamils displaced by war and minority Tamils get equal rights in all spheres in their country.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday made a veiled attack on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for not expressing sympathies with those injured during police action on supporters of Baba Ramdev.

Vice-Admiral K.N. Sushil, flag officer commanding-in-chief, Southern Naval command, on Wednesday said there has been a dip in the piracy activity.