Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh Wednesday moved an application before the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a corruption case registered against him by the state's vigilance department. The bail plea will... More

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is not only sure of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) securing absolute majority in the upcoming assembly elections but also of becoming prime minister of the country one day. "The BSP will secure... More

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi might have earned the reputation of a successful rabble-rouser whose vitriolic speeches garnered votes for a hard-pressed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, he was compelled to make a hasty retreat from Uttar... More

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi sprained his wrist while alighting from the helicopter during his election tour in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town, party sources said. According to Congress leaders here, the Amethi MP was immediately treated with pain... More

Disturbed by communal clashes in Lucknow and Kanpur ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Election Commission Tuesday asked poll officials to be "extra careful" and try to have advance information on people trying to foment sectarian... More

US Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican of Colorado, has announced his candidacy for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Tancredo, a leading voice against illegal immigration, made his announcement... More

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Tuesday stormed the bastion of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav who was looking forward to staging a comeback by sweeping the Bhartana Vidhan Sabha seat. A part of Yadav's home district Etawah, this small... More

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be embarrassed by a CD that could inflame communal passions and has been released by a senior party leader ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls. Lalji Tandon, the BJP leader in the Uttar Pradesh assembly,... More

Former Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda has decided to return his Z-plus security personnel to protest the government move to take back his bullet-proof vehicle. The government last week decided to withdraw the car designed to jam landmines... More

Determined to put the Congress back in the reckoning despite adverse opinion polls, its star campaigner Rahul Gandhi Monday wooed hundreds of thousands in the country's most populous state by asking them to rise above caste and religion when they... More