With no substantive politically-sensitive bill now on the UPA government’s agenda and the food security ordinance already promulgated, it appears that the government is in no hurry to convene the Mons

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday said her party would ensure reservations for the economically deprived among upper castes as well as Muslims.

BJP president Rajnath Singh on Saturday met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Bhaiyyaji Joshi at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur. The meeting, which took place a day after senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s meeting with the RSS chief, went on for almost two hours.

A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday seeking quashing of the controversial food security ordinance on the ground that the constitutional provision has been misused for pre-election propaganda and political gains.

During arguments on bail pleas of three accused in the `10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery scam, their lawyers, questioning CBI’s decision to make former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal a witness in the case, told a Delhi court that the person who should have been made accused has been set free.

In what has exposed the nexus of traders and corporate houses increasing the prices essential commodities exorbitantly, the commissioner of taxes has informed the Assam chief secretary that the price of eggs is `1.09 per egg as against the average price of `4.50 per egg in the market while that of fish is `20 to `25 per kg as against the prevailing market price of `200 and above.

Recent seizure of a huge haul of medicines including pregnancy-test kits and sexual stimulants in a Naxal camp in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district has once again established charges of sexual exploitation of tribal women by Maoist leaders, the police said.

The bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh is at war. Senior PCS officer Hari Shankar Pandey has moved the court, three days after the state government charge-sheeted him of tampering with the documents while exposing the multi-crore scam in the rural engineering department (RED).

Panic reigned in the steel city of Rourkela, nearly 350 km from here, as a herd of wild elephants entered the Bisra Stadium late on Friday evening.

A 55-year-old contractor was killed while 15 others suffered severe injuries when an under construction four-storey building collapsed in Jafrabad area in southeast Delhi early on Saturday.