Politics

The meeting came against the backdrop of a deadlock between the government and the BJP over the CAG report on coal block allocation.

Mamata, who met Finance Minister P Chidambaram, is slated to meet the Prime Minister on Thursday.

Nearly 10,000 traders from across the country are expected to attend the protest at Jantar Mantar.

Vijay Mishra, who has 62 criminal cases against him, was freed from the Naini Central jail on Tuesday after one-and-a-half-years.

It was apparent that a big plan on it was being worked upon for quite some time, said Assam CM Tarun Gogoi.

There is no law and order worth its name in the state, Swami Prasad Maurya said.

Maharashtra government recently imposed a comprehensive ban on gutka and pan masala.

The state government had constituted two committees for identifying areas from where the AFSPA could be withdrawn.

He also saw "political balancing" at play vis-à-vis support to the movement by NDA constituents and unattached parties.

While the BJP-led NDA joined him on stage, Ramdev exhorted his supporters to remove the Congress-led UPA from power.

Zardari made the remarks in a message issued on the occasion of a seminar to be organised by the South Asian Free Media Association in Lahore and Amritsar on August 13.

Kiran Bedi accused the media of ignoring corruption allegations against UPA ministers.

The Railway Minister also said that the man also resisted his detention and also did not give his identity correctly.

The BJP has refused to get drawn into the issue of whether Rahul Gandhi should be inducted into the Cabinet.

Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda refutes allegations that the state police is sheltering Gopal Kanda.

The Janata Party president requested Mahinda Rajapaksa to mobilise other Tamil parties in the northern province.