Politics

Following the latest decision, Ajit Jogi, the MLA from Marwahi, a Scheduled Tribes reserved seat, may lose his assembly membership.

Student union polls were last held in the state in 1987. Afterwards, they were either carried out through indirect elections or were cancelled fearing violence in education campuses.

The post of Congress Delhi unit chief has been lying vacant after the demise of Sheila Dikshit last month.

The Rajya Sabha MP was responding to a notice sent by the Kerala unit of the Congress seeking his explanation over his support to colleague Jairam Ramesh, who had warned the Opposition parties that 'demonising' PM Narendra Modi would not help.

JD(S) national general secretary Ramesh Babu has also filed a police complaint alleging that his phone may have been tapped too.

Former Union Minister Veerappa Moily was reacting to Jairam Ramesh's statement in which he said that the demonising PM Modi was wrong. Ramesh's statement was condoned by Congress's Shashi Tharoor and Abhishek Singhvi.

Yechury's reaction came after the RBI approved the transfer of a record Rs 1.76 lakh crore dividend and surplus reserves to the government, boosting the BJP-led regime's prospect to stimulate the slowing economy without widening fiscal deficit.

On Pakistan's efforts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Vijayvargiya said after the snub at the Security Council, Pakistan's 'frustration' is there for all to see.

Savarkar's bust, along with those of Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose, was installed by the ABVP-led Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) on Tuesday without taking permission from the varsity authorities.

Rahul Gandhi also said the Congress had been cautioning about the state of the economy for long. "Government's own economic advisors have finally acknowledged what we cautioned for long - India's economy is in a deep mess.

Shiv Sena candidate Ambadas Danve was pitted against Baburao Kulkarni of Congress. A total of 647 out of 657 public representatives from different local self-governing bodies had cast their votes.

The Congress has strongly backed Chidambaram, with Rahul Gandhi accusing the government of using the ED, the CBI and sections of the media for his character assassination

BJP's state election co-incharge Munish Sharma said the saffron party had already nominated the district-level poll in-charges, who would be given tips for the smooth conduct of the exercise in their respective districts.

On Sunday, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said there should be a conversation in a harmonious atmosphere between those in favour of reservation and those against it.

The court refused to release Manoj Kumar on probation of good conduct, noting that the convict was previously convicted in another case and was sentenced to three months imprisonment.

Referring to the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to bring a law to overturn the Supreme Court judgement in the Shah Bano case, Home Minister Amit Shah said it would be considered a 'black day' in the history of Parliament.