JD(U) stalwart and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday diplomatically downplayed the three-day fast by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi of the BJP and its larger presumed import within the NDA, disassociating the JD(U) from the event and keeping his cards close to his chest.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s three-day fast failed to send positive message to the people, including the majority and minority, on “sadbhavana” and created confusion among the BJP workers over the prime-ministerial candidacy of Mr Modi and senior leader L.K. Advani.

Chief minister and Trinamul Congress candidate for Bhowanipore byelection Mamata Banerjee postponed her scheduled roadshow in the constituency on
Tuesday because of her visit to the earthquake-hit North Bengal and Sikkim. “I have been forced to cancel my election rally on Tuesday. I offer my
apologies to my brothers and sisters in Bhowanipore about this decision. Now I will reschedule my meeting for Thursday,” she added.

Nearly a week after the FAO warning about the possible resurgence of bird flu in Asia, Western Assam’s Dhu-bri district has detected a confirmed outbreak and has started the culling of chickens.

The toll in the Delhi high court blast rose to 12 persons as an injured succumbed at RML Hospital on Thursday. Relatives and friends of the deceased, Pramod Chourasia, 40, indulged in slogan shouting after his body was not handed over to them at the hospital.

Fresh analysis of a 2 million-year-old hominid fossils discovered in 2008 has led to the realisation that tool making ability came from species existing much before our genus — Homo. This makes Australopithe-cus sediba, not only the

With the arrest of mining baron and former Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company managing director B.V. Srinivas Reddy on Monday, the CBI has now begun its probe into the illegal mining activities being run by the Reddy brothers of Bellary across the border in Andhra Pradesh.

After the arrest of G. Janardhan Reddy, one of the two Bellary brothers and former Karnataka minister in the erstwhile B.S. Yeddyurappa government, for his allegedly deep involvement in illegal mining activity, BJP president Nitin Gadkari is understood to have held parleys with the party’s Karnataka

Political parties in AP, including the YSR Congress, have begun an assessment of the political situation in the event of Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy being arrested by the CBI, as seems likely. Once the arrests of

Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy turned down the simple fare offered at the Chanchalguda Central Jail, and instead preferred the food brought to him by his friends. Jail officials said that on Tuesday he was woken