Dissent over ticket distribution in the Samajwadi Party is now finding its way to posters and hoardings and disgruntled party leaders who have been deni-ed tickets are expressing their angst through poetry.

This sequence of photographs shows the moon being covered by the shadow of the earth during the total lunar eclipse as seen from New Delhi early on Thursday.

BJP deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde’s fate will be decided in the party’s meeting in Delhi on Saturday.

The Indian Navy on Thursday said the freed Egyptian merchant vessel MV Suez did not respond to communications from the Indian Navy ship INS Godavari after the naval ship reached the merchant vessel on Thursday to escort it.

The Congress is watching developments in the BJP, especially the fight between the BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and the party’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Gopoinath Munde, viewing that its outcome is going to strengthen the Congress further.

The Enforcement Directorate has forwarded a letter of request, issued by the court, to the external affairs ministry to start a process of confiscating properties owned by rebel leaders of outlawed Dima Halim Daogah abroad.

Within a month Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi formed his Cabinet, infighting has broke out with a former chief minister and senior most Congress leader accusing a minister of securing cabinet berth by using “money power”.
The problem started when agriculture minister Nilmani Sen Deka accused former chief minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman of indulging in backbiting that led to his defeat in 2006.

Former chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh charged the Akali-BJP government of “deliberately subverting long-established legal processes to forcibly acquire farmers’ lands across Punjab.”

Facing heat from the Congress in the run-up to next year’s UP Assembly polls, BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday went on the offensive in an attempt to turn the table by raising the Commonwealth Games scam and corruption issues in a party workers’ meet in Delhi.

India has not felt the need for a bilateral river waters sharing agreement with China similar to the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a government source said, implying that the present arrangement is adequate.