The Delhi police on Monday named BJP MP Ashok Argal in its second supplementary chargesheet in connection with the cash-for-vote scam in a court here. The court will decide on his summoning on October 7.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is now trying to make a conscious effort to woo dalits and OBCs in Uttar Pradesh but the party does not have an acceptable dalit and backward face to project and promote in the coming Assembly elections.

The residents of east and north Delhi areas will face powercuts for the next two weeks as a major transmission line here will be shut down to facilitate the construction of a bridge in Wazirabad.

Deploring the incidents witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the Congress on Monday came out in support of chief minister Omar Abdullah, who is under Opposition attack following the controversy over the custodial death of an NC worker.

Opposing the bail pleas of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two BJP ex-MPs, the Delhi police on Saturday said every accused arrested in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam claims to be a whistle-blower.

A Delhi police constable was killed on Wednesday night by two men at Ranhola in Bagrola area of Southwest Delhi. One of the accused has been arrested and search for the second one is on.

The CPI(M) top leadership on Thursday began the process of discussing and preparing its new ideological approach to be adopted at the party congress to be held next year even as former West Bengal chief minister and senior politburo member Buddahdeb Bhattacharjee remained conspicuous by his absence.

The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) wants the BJP to continue its efforts to win back former chief minister Kalyan Singh and also keep the Bahujan Samaj Party in good humour.

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has suspended the then superintendent of police (SP) and district magistrate (DM) of Bharatpur and removed inspector-general of police (IGP) in the wake of the communal violence on September 14, which claimed 10 lives. The Opposition BJP criticised the move. The

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has made it clear that the peace process that her government has initiated with the Maoists will be discontinued and joint operations intensified against them, unless the rebels shun violence.