Insisting that senior leader L.K. Advani’s “Janchetna yatra” is aimed at “clean politics” and “good governance”, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that the yatra is not for the Prime Minister’s post. Sharing details of the yatra, Mr Gadkari said Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will flag off the yatra from

Independent MLA Sheikh Abdur Rashid and several of his supporters were injured in a clash with the police outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, now in session here, on Thursday. They were protesting against the stalling of the resolution in the House seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru.

Nearly two decades after the incident, a sessions court here on Thursday sentenced all the 215 men of the police and forest and revenue departments to jail terms ranging from one to 10 years for assault and rape of tribals during a raid targeting sandalwood smuggling in remote Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district.

The CBI, which said its probe into Reliance Telecomm was “continuing”, added that it was investigating how there could be such a huge gap in the sale of shares of a company in a relatively close period, what was the game plan behind this, and who was the “actual beneficiary” as the equity was off-loaded before

Pakistan on Thursday said it would not accept any “dictation” from the United States regarding operations against the Haqqani network in the tribal North Waziristan Agency.

The Madhya Pradesh unit of BJP on Thursday organised a huge rally of tribals at Mandla to protest against the arrest of former Union minister Faggan Singh Kulaste in the cash-for-vote case.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is likely to skip the BJP’s two-day national executive, beginning Friday, in the national capital. Though the BJP refused to confirm whether or not Mr Modi would attend the meet, sources disclosed that Mr Modi is unlikely to attend the meeting because of “Navratra”. A section within the party feels Mr Modi’s absence will fuel speculation of growing differences with senior leader L.K. Advani.

The bail plea of Sohail Hindustani, arrested for his alleged role in the 2008-cash-for-vote scam, was on Thursday dismissed by a Delhi court which said the accused has played “a leading and vital role” in the case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday gave a clean chit to Tata Teleservices and Datacom of Videocon in the 2G scam case but informed the Supreme Court that the probe against another company was continuing in the wake of three arrested company officials retracting their statement which was recorded by the CBI.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi succeeded in dousing the 2G fire, which had been raging for days, by bringing two senior ministers — Mr Pranab Mukherjee and Mr P. Chidambaram — together on Thursday to put the record straight on the controversial note on spectrum allocation.