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.

India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.

Now that all the exit polls have predicted the exit of Left Front, the million-dollar question being asked is: what role will Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee play in the changed circumstances?

Discerning citizens and civil society organisations that have remained in the forefront defending the interests of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday reacted sharply to the Supreme Court decision dismissing the CBI’s curative petition against an earlier judgment of the apex court that diluted the charges against the accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster case.

The EC on Wednesday said that it is working on guidelines for the electronic media to ensure a level playing field for political parties that own television channels and those that cannot boast of having one.

Unfazed by the prediction of the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance’s sweeping victory, Left Front chairman Biman Bose on Tuesday dismissed the exit poll results as “bogus”. Referring to the exit poll results of the Assembly polls of 2001 and 2006, which eventually turned out to be “big jokes”, Mr Bose asserted that the Left Front forming the government for the eighth term is only a matter of time.

No violence. No killing. No Maoist attack. Polling in 14 Assembly constituencies, which are considered as Maoist-infested ones, in West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia was totally peaceful. Around 85 per cent voters cast their franchise in the last phase of the six-phased elections in West Bengal. An unprecedented security blanket was

Attacking the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for its “step-motherly” treatment towards BJP- and NDA-ruled states, the BJP has charged the Centre with using constitutional institutions as “weapons” and “pressurising” state bureaucracy, thus “compromising the states’ interest. The party also passed a resolution focusing on good governance, corruption, strengthening the organisation, accountability and transparency and war against terrorism.

India and the US will soon embark on a wide-ranging partnership in the field of education with the first Indo-US summit on higher education scheduled to be held in Washington in June. The proposed partnership between the two countries is likely to help the expansion of education sector in the country with the agenda including

The Madhya Pradesh government’s plan to teach “Gita Sar” (essence of Bhagwad Gita) in government schools has been sharply criticised and dubbed an anti-secular initiative by Harmony Foundation, a local organisation formed by followers of various religious groups.