Politics

So far all efforts to get LK Advani to withdraw his resignation have failed.

Mahant, who is also Union Minister, said that the first meeting will be more of a meeting to pay tribute to the victims of the Naxal violence.

Meanwhile, the CPM has alleged its party workers are being systematically killed by the "goons of the Trinamool Congress".

Goel said that the BJP-led NDA government at the centre had brought a bill in Parliament in 2003 to grant Delhi full statehood, but Dikshit opposed it.

The May 25 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh killed 28 people including former Congress leaders Nand Kumar Patel and Mahendra Karma among others.

Modi said it is BJP's responsibility to save India from an 'insensitive' UPA government and that he would work hard as the party's poll panel chief.

According to the police, the four miscreants attacked Sarkar when he out for his morning walk and escaped.

As 85-year-old LK Advani chose to skip BJP's National Executive meet in Goa, a group of Narendra Modi supporters staged a protest outside his residence in Delhi.

The BJP president Rajnath Singh said if his party gets 10 years in power, it will change the face of the nation.

The Congress core group decided that final decision on Telangana will be taken after Andhra Pradesh Assembly Session.

Asked what would be his stand if Congress was insistent on an ordinance, Pawar said, "Such decisions are taken collectively."

The police allegedly forced Khalid Mujahid to sign on a statement accepting that he was behind the Lucknow and Faizabad courts blasts.

R Balakrishna Pillai on Wednesday hinted at leaving the party if his son KB Ganeshkumar wasn't given a Cabinet berth.

The results in the by-poll is seen as the trust vote for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after the chit fund scam hit West Bengal.

Sources say Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is likely to push for strengthening of the multi-agency centre of the Intelligence Bureau.

The three-phase Panchayat polls are scheduled to begin on July 2.