Reacting to the latest development, Ramesh said other owners would give a fresh statement to support the bribery charges.

Taking a jibe at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Rajnath said at least the Prime Minister did not go “on a vacation” leaving the people high and dry.

BSP chief Mayawati has appointed Muslims at lone posts of vice-presidents in most of districts in western UP.

Government would spend between Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 for development of each beneficiary and the scheme is intended to cover all women-run indigent families in five years.

This was the first rural chief ministerial sleepover in a state, 76per cent of whose general population lives in villages.

Ahead of PM Modi’s visit to Bangladesh in June, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar Saturday said discussions are going on about a motor vehicles agreement between India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

The ruling JD(U) in Bihar has urged SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to project party leader and CM Nitish Kumar as the Janata Parivar’s candidate for the top post in the assembly elections.

The move to introduce a film visa stems from the realisation that foreign filmmakers were facing several hassles when they started shooting.

Party chief says those talking about BJP should realise its strength; Fadnavis says breaking up with Sena helped.

Antony also asked whether the government consulted the Finance Ministry before inking the deal as it had objected to the selection process earlier.

RTI activist Vivek Garg had found out that in at least two cases the then government bent the rules to help the private sector.

Intelligence agencies have red-flagged the proposal and have expressed apprehensions to some extent for Bangladesh also.

There have been 17 rounds of Special Representative talks between India and China on the boundary issue.

Kumar will take over from R K Mathur, who retires on May 24.

The support of the ruling party of Bihar would be a significant victory for the beleaguered NDA government.

Finance Minister projected Congress as party that blocks development, growth.

J Jayalalithaa faces a string of challenges in the run-up to next year’s polls as she gets sworn-in today.

Nitish could not attend the meeting as he was on a bed rest after undergoing an eye operation, said sources.

Manjhi had recently spoken to Lalu to explore alliance options with RJD and Congress “minus Nitish”.

Nitish and Lalu have already arrived in the capital. While, JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav would be attending the meeting, there was no word on JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda.

Though VHP has not sent any formal word yet to BJP, some of its leaders have taken it up with RSS leadership.

The demand of the soldiers was accepted by the UPA government and announced again by the NDA government after it came to power last year.

A condition will be inserted to ensure that Chinese companies do not set up factories near the border areas or near sensitive installations.

"We want five per cent reservation under the legal limit of 50 per cent. The governments have been cheating us for the last several years. We are presently getting only one per cent and we want four per cent more," Gujjar leader Kirori Bainsla said.