The BJP on Tuesday said arrest of former SP leader Amar Singh in the cash-for-vote scam is “a step in the right direction”. However, it termed the arrest of its former MPs “completely malafide”.

Even as Lionel Messi landed in Dhaka, it was failure of the Teesta accord, which dominated newspapers and the audio visual channels. Some local Bengali papers went on to describe the West Bengal chief minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, as a “drama queen.”

Terming the allegations made by BJP and other Opposition parties against it in the wake of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in the cash-for-vote scam as “baseless”, the Congress on Tuesday said the due process of law is being followed in the case. It said that the arrest of Mr Singh and others was the culmination of a “very closely monitored” Delhi police investigation by the Supreme Court.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that Bangladesh was in the midst of a major socio-economic transformation. “Your economy has witnessed steady growth during the last several years and you have achieved commendable successes in eradicating poverty, hunger, illiteracy and

The CBI, which is probing irregularities committed by iron ore mining firm Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) owned by former Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy, has now started scrutinising satellite imagery of the areas where the company allegedly carried out unauthorised mining.

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

Five schoolchildren were injured when a speeding Scorpio crashed into their vehicle near the INA Metro station on Tuesday afternoon.