Former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta here on Saturday pulled up Union home minister P. Chidambram for his sudden declaratioin to disarm the militant outfits holding ceasefire with the government.

In a veiled attack on the Mayawati government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that the state government has not shown adequate interest in the development of the Bundelkhand region. The PM, while addressing a Congress rally in Banda on Saturday, said that the Central and state governments must work in

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday criticised chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s demand for a judicial inquiry into the Purulia arms drop case.
“I am amazed that such a furore is being raised over the allegation made by an accused,” he said.

Battling charges that the then Central government had a role to play in the 1995 Purulia district arms-dropping episode, the government appeared to go on overdrive on Saturday to refute this allegation. The allegation has been recently levelled by one of the masterminds of the operation Kim Davy, whose extradition from Denmark to face trial here has been sought for long by the Indian government.

Defending his industrialisation drive, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said that he had wanted to make Nandigram into another Haldia, a prominent industrial town with a port but the Trinamul Congress had sabotaged his plans through a sustained misinformation campaign. Addressing election rallies in Heria

The crime branch has arrested three Nigerians from Seelampur for running a fake Internet lottery racket. The police said the accused used to send SMSs and fake e-mail of lottery wins through email address espn2011draw@msn.com to victims. They used advanced software to ensure that their host server could not be traced.

Tearing into chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for sharing stage with “censured” CPI(M) leader Anil Basu at an election rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that their bonhomie exposed the duplicity of the Marxists. “The CPI(M) has a real face and also a mask. One is white and the other black. One will call someone a thief and the other will reprimand him,” she alleged. She was addressing an election rally at Pandua in Highly

Having registered cases in connection with alleged irregularities involving the members of the Organising Committee (OC), the CBI has now begun moving towards other agencies involved in the Commonwealth Games and accused of malpractices. The CBI has registered an FIR, related to the Games project involving Delhi

The government late on Saturday evening alerted the department of space and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for help in locating the whereabouts of the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu and four others. Union home secretary G.K. Pillai said in New Delhi that Indian satellites

Hours after claiming that the missing Pawan Hans Helicopter carrying Arunachal chief minister Dorjee Khandu had landed safely, the Arunachal Pradesh government retracted and said the chief minister and the helicopter were traceless since taking off from Tawang on Saturday.