The Lokayukta has issued notices to former CM V.S. Achuthanandan and his son Arun Kumar on a complaint that government officials were sent unnecessarily to a finishing school under the Institute of Human Resources Development, where the latter worked. The complainant, Salim Madavoor of the Socialist Yuva Janata, said Mr

A crude, low intensity bomb went off outside the Delhi high court complex on Wednesday afternoon, sparking concerns over the security preparedness in the capital. A red alert has been sounded in the city.

United Liberation Front of Asom chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa on Wednesday sought an apology publicly from the families of the 13 schoolchildren killed in a tragic bomb blast masterminded by the Ulfa in northern Assam’s Dhemaji district on August 15, 2004.

Maoist sympathiser and revolutionary poet Varavara Rao on Wednesday stopped short of giving an ultimatum to the Orissa government to release “human rights activists” like Ganti Prasadam, Gananath Patra and Ashutosh Sen and nearly 600 tribal farmers currently lodged in various jails in the state by June 30 or face imminent revolt.

Refusal to develop a second-rung leadership, inability to focus on local issues and a highly centralised system of working have prevented the Bahujan Samaj Party from spreading its wings in other states.

The military company of outlawed CPI(Maoist) was suspected to be involved in the Monday’s carnage at Amamora in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district, in which nine policemen, including additional-superintendent of police (ASP) Rajesh Pawar, were killed, police sources said here on Wednesday.

In the backdrop of the Left parties’ rout in the recently concluded Assembly elections, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has decided to go for a change in its leadership. The change of guard is all set to be effected in March next year at the party congress.

Several NGOs working for the cause of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday called for immediate scrapping of the recommendations of the Peer Review Committee set up for remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in the state capital and demanded reconstitution of this committee to ensure that there were no members in this panel with conflict of interests.

Defying diktat of the party mandarins not to criticise the party line in public, former state land and land reforms minister and state committee member of the Marxist party Abdur Rezzak Mollah on Wednesday fired another salvo against the party satraps.

Defending his ministerial colleague Jairam Ramesh for his remarks on IITs and IIMs faculty members, water resources and minority affairs minister Salman Khursheed on Wednesday said, his views were just informal academic exchange and this should not be discouraged.