The Delhi police, in an effort to curb youths from performing risky motorcycle stunts in and around India Gate, carried out a late night drive by setting up 40 check points and slapping fines on 84 motorcycle riders besides impounding eight bikes.

Master Prithviraj Basketball Stadium at Ajmal Khan Park in Karol Bagh, which once witnessed several international and national basketball events in its heyday, is now in a dilapidated condition due to delay in implementation of renovation plans and administrative negligence.

Even as Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi continued to be slammed for his “Hindu nationalist” and “puppy” remarks, the BJP came up with a somewhat bizarre defence, saying his comments “reveal the compassion, the childlike heart of Narendra Modi”.

JMM leader Hemant Soren, 37, was sworn in as Jharkhand’s ninth chief minister on Saturday as the head of the new ruling coalition of JMM, Congress, RJD and Independent MLAs, along with two legislators, one each from the Congress and the RJD, taking oath as ministers .

Top sources in AICC indicates that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has finally decided to end the Telangana deadlock. This will be conveyed to the party’s highest policy making body, the Congress working committee, within the next few days to decide in the favour of creating a separate Telangana state.

In the backdrop of the Opposition LDF baying for his blood and some of is own party men insisting that he made way for some one else over his alleged role in the solar scam, Kerala Chief minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday called on Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi to explain his side of the story.

A day after AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh hinted that the party may not announce Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate, another senior functionary of the party, Janardhan Dwivedi, said, no final decision has yet been taken on the issue, but individual may have their “personal opinion”. With this the party has tried to keep the option open to declare its prime ministerial candidate ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

In a surprise move, the wife and brother of former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha joined the Samajwadi Party on Saturday, along with their supporters.

Is L.K. Advani, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s former mentor, guide and man for all seasons, although he retains his place in the party’s parliamentary board, going the way of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao?

Setting the stage for the early rolling out of the UPA’s ambitious food security scheme, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday held a meeting with chief ministers of party-ruled states and asked them the ensure that the law gets implemented in “letter and spirit”.