Politics

GK Pillai, who was the union home secretary when Chidambaram was the home minister, has taken on his ex-boss raising serious doubts over the entire Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter’ incident of 2004, in which several police officers went to jail.

Former bureaucrat RVS Mani has backed claims of political interference in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case during the Congress-led UPA rule.

"If I choose to assume power, it would have to be for peace. It would have to be for friendly relations between India and Pakistan which is essential for peace in Jammu and Kashmir," she said.

Abdul Kalam Vision India Party will contest in all the 234 constituencies in the coming assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

He alleged that bureaucratic red-tapism and rising crime rate are posing as hurdles to setting up of industries in the state.

Pointing to the Amroha Municipal Corporation advertisement inviting applications for the post of 'Safai Karmachari' (sweeper), Gandhi claimed majority of the 19,000 applicants were graduates and post-graduates.

The Left is singing the Congress's tune with the West Bengal polls in mind, he said adding they were targeting BJP and RSS for the minority vote bank as their future was at stake in the state elections in 2016.

Rhetorical skills were on full display, demons were discussed and unruly scenes were witnessed on the floor of the House.

Smriti Irani had made a fiery speech in Parliament on the Rohith Vemula suicide case.

Senior RSS functionary Indresh Kumar said it was "unfortunate" that those who once fought for country's freedom were taking sides of "anti-nationals" today.

BJP and its allies have decided to aggressively counter Congress and the Left in Parliament over the issues.

Addressing students protesting against Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide, Kejriwal demanded the immediate arrest of "Central Ministers" who "forced" him to take the extreme step and accused the ruling BJP for opening a "front" against Dalits.

Hans said he looked around and found that the Congress under PCC president Amarinder Singh's leadership was best suited to rule Punjab.

The district magistrate was surprised and called the cantonment police which took Kharat and another leader Vijay Bharati under its custody.