In what has come as a shocker for entire civil society in Assam, a couple failing to facilitate treatment to their girl child committed suicide by jumping into flooding Brahmaputra river near Guwahati from a boat.

The outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (I.K. Songbijit Faction), which abducted general manager of NHPC Anil Kumar Agarwal, has demanded `20 crores ransom from a close associate of the officer in the NHPC to release him.

The government was once again rapped by the Supreme Court on Tuesday for not giving details of each coal block it had allotted since 1995, saying its latest affidavit was completely opposite to what the Centre had said earlier.

The CBI on Tuesday questioned officials of the coal ministry in connection with its probe into the missing files related to the coalgate scam.

With the political mood swinging at the ground level in Uttar Pradesh, time has come for political leaders to begin switching their loyalties.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leader L.K. Advani will be sharing the stage along with other top party leaders during the BJP’s “Karyakarta Mahakumbh” (party workers’ rally) in the state capital on Wednesday.

The Congress and the BJP are unlikely to follow the “sitting-getting” formula in the coming Assembly elections in four states after realising that the incumbency is going against sitting legislators, ministers than the incumbent chief ministers.

Union law and justice minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and BJP stating that they had a habit of criticising whatever happened in the country without offering any alternatives.

In a bid to regain trust of the grassroots level party workers, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday interacted directly with party workers in Nagpur. Mr Gandhi went on to assure them that they were as important for the party as other big leaders.

On the eve of the BJP’s “Mahakumbh” rally to be held in Bhopal on Wednesday, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh alleged that the ruling BJP got 10,000 burqas stitched to fake support of the minority Muslim voters during this event. He went on to alleged that a hefty amount had been paid in advance for this purpose by the director of a construction company.