A job plan to provide employment to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir which has been prepared by an expert panel headed by C.Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) will be presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday.

A division bench of the Allahabad high court played Cupid and Amit Chaturvedi, a 22-year-old brahmin youth, overcame caste barriers to marry Kiran, a dalit girl, at a local Arya Samaj temple on Tuesday.

Congress general secretary and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh on Wednesday went on the offensive against state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, accusing him of misleading the people through his “unsubstantiated” reply to the Opposition’s adjournment motion on the hail-affected farmers in the state Assembly on February 23.

The UPA government had earlier proposed the creation of the board in an effort to help facilitate the admission of madrasa students into formal higher education, by paving the way for recognising madrasa degrees and helping students in these seminaries to seek admission in higher educational institutes.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who is also chairman of the working group on consumer affairs, on Wednesday submitted a report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The report contains suggestions to control high food prices. Some of these suggestions include banning futures trading in essential items and liberalising agri-markets via organised retail.

Facing the Opposition’s heightened attacks for the absence of industries in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday accused the Centre of preventing investments worth over `1 lakh crores lined up for the state from taking shape on the ground.

After avoiding filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court for several years enunciating its stand on the prickly and politically volatile issue of reservations for dalit Muslims and Christians, the government is likely to do so in the next few days. It’s being forced to do so after the apex court set a deadline for the government asking it to do so.

Concerned over the short supply of milk against an increasing demand for the vital food item in the country, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar will review the situation on Thursday to work out a strategy for the coming summer season, during which milk production will further dip.

Factionalism continues to bog down the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the fact that Assembly elections are barely a year away matters little to state leaders who are busy settling their own issues instead of reviving the party.

Is the ruling BJP making its case for recall of governor H.R. Bhardwaj stronger?
In the latest complaint to the Union government, the state government has highlighted the fact that Mr Bhardwaj was not only biased in his decisions but also flouted