Politics

The poll panel has asked the states to ensure three-tier security around the counting centres.

Ghatowar, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, was sitting next to External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.

MOS for Home Sajjad Kitchloo said that the government was examining if internal rivalry could have led to killing of sarpanch Javeed Wani.

The rape survivor had recently filed police complaint seeking that PJ Kurien be named accused in the case.

BJP has always been opposed to the Sethusamudram project which envisages dredging of a shipping channel.

Naqvi said that the person who called claimed to be associated with terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Announcing her plan in Kolkata, Banerjee said the state government would set up a budget hotel at Jharkhali.

The session has a heavy legislative agenda, including getting Parliament nod to three ordinances, introduction of as many as 16 bills, consideration and passage of 35 bills.

The BJP has said that it will raise the chopper scam and the remarks of Shinde on Hindu terror in Parliament.

Balasaheb did not take a stand only for the sake of vote bank politics like Sharad Pawar, Uddhav said.

Surya Kanta Mishra said despite Mamata's attempt to foil the Wednesday-Thursday shutdown, it would be a "spontaneous" one.

Amid the fracas, the Governor read out the 21 page speech over 70 minutes before heading for the Raj Bhawan.

Police said that the BJP was blowing the issue out of proportion for gaining political mileage.

The Congress Vice President deprecated the tendency of groupism, asking partymen to shun it.

The supporters of contestants attacked police and BSF men at a counting centre in Hatsingimari subdivision.

According to the factsheet, a global tender was floated in 2002 for helicopters. Only Eurocopter, France, was found suitable for acquisition.