The BJP is likely to reshuffle its ministers in the Prakash Singh Badal-led government in Punjab. Two of its senior-most leaders in the state, who are also part of the SAD-BJP government, have been named in a bribery case. The party has also decided that its Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will continue at the post

A 22-year-old youth was found dead with his throat slit near Delhi University’s Ambedkar College in northeast Delhi on Wednesday morning.
The police said the deceased, identified as Shahdab alias Sonu, a resident of Rajeev Nagar in Gokalpuri, had gone missing from his residence on Tuesday evening following which his family had approached the police. “Shahdab was getting engaged on Wednesday and his family was busy making preparations. He had gone to get

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi created a furor in political circles when he reached the violence-hit Bhatta parsaul village in Greater Noida in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to meet the agitating farmers.

The current mood in the Congress is of going it alone in the coming local body elections in Maharashtra after realising that dissolution of board of directors of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank has come as a bad omen for the NCP.

In a meeting on Wednesday, the Delhi BJP legislative party slammed chief minister Sheila Dikshit for her attack on the functioning of the MCD. The party accused the chief minister of making attempts to defame the civic body.

Even as the Bihar Vigilance Investigation Bureau finally registered a case against senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker Sadanand Singh for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Assembly Secretariat employees, there is little response from the Congress party in his defence.

Keeping with its proposed plan to involve private sector in the water sector, the Delhi government on Wednesday constituted a high-powered committee to draft a roadmap and bring reforms in the management and distribution of water in the city, besides restructuring the Delhi Jal Board.

Telugu superstar and Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president Chiranjeevi on Wednesday said that the merger of his party with the congress would be completed by the end of this month.

In a crackdown on food adulteration, the Delhi government on Wednesday said that a new law with stringent provisions, including life term, would come in force in three months’ time in the city. The government has stated that the rules in respect of the new law have been notified.

The exit polls predicting an impressive hat-trick for the ruling Congress Party have failed to discourage the Opposition Asom Gana Parishad, BJP and AIUDF in working out strategy for a non-Congress government in Assam.