Despite sincere efforts by the party high command to quell dissent in the UP Congress, factionalism and infighting rears its head at regular intervals.

The investigators from crime branch and special cell are analysing the evidence to ascertain the identity of the culprits who placed the bomb under a car in Delhi high court parking. Meanwhile, police commissioner B.K. Gupta ruled out that the bomb was triggered to cause serious damage.

Keeping the pre-poll promises she made to Muslims, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Urdu would be given second-language status in districts with a 10 per cent or more Urdu-speaking population.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday to seek approval for the proposed division of the MCD as there is no consensus between the city government and the party unit over the issue.

Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Thursday praised finance minister Pranab Mukherjee saying he is like a “professor” in Parliament and it was “dual honour” for him to be clubbed with Mr Mukherjee for an award.

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed its inability to restrain the media from reporting the inquiry proceedings of the impeachment probe committee against Sikkim high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, whose counsel made a plea for in-camera hearing by the probe panel.

The GJM has extended its support to the Trinamul Congress-led government in the state. Even the GJM has offered to sit on the treasury benches to show solidarity to the government. GJM president Bimal Gurung will meet

President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has rejected the mercy petition of Sikh militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar clearing all legal hurdles for his execution even as several high profile death row convicts, including Parliament

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee failed to make the Tata Motors’ agreement with the state government over Singur project public on Thursday due to legal complications. On Wednesday, the chief minister had announced that the entire agreement on the Nano project (now abandoned) at Singur would be shared with the

Charred houses and the mangled remains of the nine seats of the ill-fated Swiss- made Pilatus chartered air-ambulance aircraft could be seen at the accident site at Parvartiya Colony in Faridabad on Thursday.