Union ministers and Congress leaders took potshots at the decision of the BJP to nominate Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the party’s prime ministerial candidate. The Congress also did not spare BJP patriarch L.K. Advani, accusing him of sowing the seeds of communalism in the country.

In view of the attacks on Telangana people during the APNGOs rally, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) on Saturday rejected the Centre’s move to make Hyderabad the common capital of the two states for 10 years or a UT and demanded Telangana with 10 districts with Hyderabad as the sole capital.

The Orissa police on Saturday arrested one Diptiranjan Patnaik, the accused involved in the murder of Bachhansudha Patnaik, wife of a leading businessman. Diptiranjan, who worked as the security guard at the house of the victim, killed the woman on Wednesday when her husband Manu Patnaik was away at his auto-showroom at Hanspal on the outskirts of the city.

The ISI is using its strong base in Bangladesh as it is easier to push men and ammunition into India through the porous border, India’s most wanted terrorist Yasin Bhatkal has revealed.

Alleged terror mastermind and Indian Muzahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was on Saturday brought to Bihar’s northern Darbhanga town by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths in a highly secretive operation and taken to locations where he lived and befriended people.

After being isolated and eclipsed, BJP patriarch L.K. Advani apparently threw in the towel by agreeing to share the dais with the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at an election rally in Bhopal on September 25.

In a significant move ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Union minister for agriculture Sharad Pawar has moved a Cabinet note to seek a substantial hike in the minimum support price (MSP) of rabi (winter) crops for 2013-14, which is even higher than what the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) has suggested. If approved, implementation of the Food Security Law would become much costlier.

In a sensational disclosure to his interrogators, India’s most wanted terrorist, Yasin Bhatkal, has revealed that Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is working on a multi-pronged strategy to spread terror in India and for this purpose is now trying to rope in Naxals as well.

At least 14 Maoists, including a woman, were killed in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Saliakota forest near Padia in Orissa’s Malkangiri district, nearly 750 km from here, late on Friday night, the police said on Saturday.

A team of policemen from Sukma district in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar region on Saturday left for Malkangiri district in Orissa to identify bodies of 14 Naxals killed during a pre-dawn operation by the local police in the neighbouring state.