Politics

The NCP-Congress stand-off has Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan at its centre.

Jagan Reddy's mother Vijayamma was on her way to the textile town of Sirisilla in the Telangana region.

The CPI(M) wanted to take advantage of the rift within the UPA as Trinamool was against Pranab's candidature.

Sangma could only garner 103 votes, even though the BJP has 119 members in the Karnataka state Assembly.

According to Sadananda Gowda, the BJP in the last four years had given the best of development schemes and performances.

Rohit Shekhar in 2008 filed a suit claiming to be the biological son of ND Tiwari.

UPA election managers are claiming a runaway victory for Pranab Mukherjee who is expected to get around 7.5 lakh vote value.

Shortly after Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee announced on Tuesday that her party would vote for Pranab Mukherjee, the UPA candidate called her up to thank her for the decision.

The new four-member panel, to be headed by taxation expert Parthasarathi Shome, is to prepare a roadmap on GAAR by September 30.

Shettar met senior BJP leaders including L K Advani, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj at Gadkari's residence in New Delhi.

Sources say a few leaders from the BJP as well as from some other opposition parties have already approached Yadav.

Presidential election are not held on the basis of political parties, it is above political party, Sangma said.

Political parties cannot issue any direction or whip to members to vote or not in Presidential poll, said the Election Commission.

Gopalganj DM G Krishnaiah was apparently lynched to death in 1994 apparently at ex-MP Anand Mohan's saying.

The UPA had implemented several welfare schemes, including agricultural loans for farmers, Chidambaram said.

Singh discussed Ansari's name with HD Deve Gowda on Saturday and the party supported Hamid Ansari's candidature.