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.

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

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.

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.

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 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

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 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.

The BJP on Wednesday said its two ex-MPs and L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, arrested in the cash-for-vote scam, are innocent as they had only “exposed” the use of money to save the UPA-I government during the