NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday took a jibe at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi by saying that “some people” have started dreaming of becoming the prime minister. He accused him of creating conflict in the name of caste and religion to get sufficient seats and fulfill his dreams. Mr Pawar was referring to the communal riots that occurred at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.

In what may be a serious embarrassment for the ruling Congress party in Assam, at least 31 MLAs on Saturday submitted a letter to chief minister Tarun Gogoi asking to hold a special meeting of Congress Legislature Party to discuss some urgent issues afflicting the state.

The word’s out. It’s not The Lunchbox, the critically acclaimed debut film of Ritesh Batra, that’s heading for the Oscars.

The Centre is all set to ask states to pull up their socks to prevent rising communal clashes in the country. After delayed action by the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh in making arrests in the recent cases of communal violence, the Union home ministry will ask states to maintain a “database” of all cases of communal clashes registered and the progress in prosecution, draw up a “crisis management plan” at state and district levels, besides asking the chief ministers to personally assess the communal situation at least every quarter.

IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, whose suspension by the Uttar Pradesh government in July 2013 triggered nationwide outrage, met UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav along with her husband Abhishek Singh on Saturday. This was her first meeting with the chef minister since her suspension.

Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict on death row for the assassination of Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has been admitted to Rajindra Medical College and Hospital in Patiala, due to chest pain.

The inept handling of the Muzaffarnagar clashes has made the Muslims so hostile that they are willing to rehabilitate themselves through the zakat money that is coming in from the community itself.

Apparently seeking to further consolidate the ruling JD(U)’s Muslim support base in Bihar well before the Lok Sabha polls, the Nitish Kumar government is set to use Urdu in hoardings to publicise its welfare schemes and successes in the Muslim-majority areas.

The Mumbai police on Saturday chargesheeted Gurunath Meiyappan, former Team Principal of Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of BCCI chief N. Srinivasan, and 21 others for gambling, cheating and criminal conspiracy in the scam-tainted Twenty20 Indian Premier League case.

Chhattisgarh home minister Nankiram Kanwar on Saturday landed in trouble for distributing pills labelled “BJP” among villagers in his home constituency of Korba, claiming them to be malaria resistant.