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Centre will look into the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and consider 'every essential aspect,said Home Minister P Chidambaram in Srinagar.

Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi said that Sethusamudram Shipping Canal project’s early completion would help in state’s industrial development.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad asserted on Thursday that he would start from 'zero' to regain strength in state assembly.

Uttarakhand unit of the Congress has chalked out an agenda aiming to further strengthen its voter base amongst the Dalits and Muslims.

The CPM state unit in West Bengal is meeting to review the party's drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha elections.

Two passengers from abroad who showed symptoms of swine flu have been kept in isolation wards in a hospital here.

Gurjar leaders on Wednesday threatened to launch an agitation in support of their demand for inclusion of the community in the list of Scheduled Tribes.

A senior RJD leader Pervez Alam was shot dead and his two brothers in an attack by armed assailants near Digha here sparking off mob violence.

Investigation against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others is being carried as per law,said Special Investigation Team officials.

Eleven security personnel were killed and six others injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in a Naxal-affected district in Jharkhand.

Praja Rajyam Party chief K Chiranjeevi said that people in Andhra Pradesh were crying for even basic needs like drinking water.

Telugu Desam Party is sending a delegation to Australia to console Indian students,victims of the recent racist attacks.

The woes of Uttarakhand CM BC Khanduri do not seem to end with ripples of discontent emerging from within the BJP at regular intervals.

Setting at rest speculation over the possibility of his party breaking ties with Lalu Prasad's RJD in Bihar,LJP supremo Ramvilas Paswan said that the alliance 'will remain intact.'

CPI-ML (Liberation) general secretary Dipanker Bhattacharya criticised Nitish Kumar for failing to get special status for Bihar when he was in NDA’s cabinet.

AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday asked the Centre to expedite immediate measures for rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka.

Nine CRPF personnel were injured on Tuesday in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district,police said.

Kerala Home Minister took exception to Governor R S Gavai 'directly conveying' his decision to CBI to sanction prosecution of Pinarayi Vijayan.

Maharashtra Health Directorate has stepped up its vigil over the passengers coming from abroad at all the international airports in the state.

A Hurriyat spokesman said that although they have not extended the strike any further,demonstrations will continue in the valley.

Grease trickling down the central dome of Victoria Memorial Hall has invited the wrath of environmentalists.

Terming the transfer of IAS and IPS officers in Uttar Pradesh as a ‘serious matter’,the Supreme Court sought an explanation from the state Government on the allegation that Chief Minister Mayawati was resorting to arbitrary shift of the officers following her party's poor show in the elections.

Heavily armed Maoists launched a series of attacks blowing up two police stations and an outpost in Orissa.