Ashok Chavan was sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister at the head of 26-member Congress-NCP ministry on Saturday evening,two weeks after the Assembly elections results were declared.
Sixty-five per cent polling was recorded today in the byelections to 10 Assembly seats in West Bengal which passed off,by and large,peacefully.
An estimated 71 per cent polling was recorded in the byelection to two assembly constituencies in Assam.
Ashok Chavan,who was sworn in as Maharashtra CM,faces a sterner test of his leadership and managing skills through the choppy waters of coalition politics.
A Ranchi court sent Vikash Sinha,an associate of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda,to ten days in the custody of ED.
A senior official of Reserve Bank of India and his wife have been arrested on charges of torturing their 15-year-old maid.
The 15-month-old 'cash-at-door' scam has come to an end with the SC Collegium understood to have accepted a Law Ministry report absolving the judge.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has ordered removal of chairmen of all Railway Recruitment Boards across the country.
As BJP dissidents sought axing of Rural Development Minister Shobha Karandlaje from the Ministry while her supporters staged a protest in Bangalore.
Picturesque Tawang is all set to welcome the Dalai Lama on his sixth visit to Arunachal Pradesh starting from Saturday.
Cooks have been trained for a month to serve the Dalai Lama's favourite fare,while gifts are being stocked for him for a year in this picturesque Arunachal town.
Thick smog and the resultant low visibility in the NCR region led to two accidents in which five persons were killed and seven others injured.
Tension prevailed in parts of the city following clashes between youth and police after the body of man bearing injury marks was recovered.
Two top ULFA leaders,who surrendered before the BSF,have been brought to the city even as the banned outfit called a 12-hour Assam Bandh demanding their unconditional release.
Chandrayaan-II moon mission,which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon,will be completed by 2012-13,said Dr M Annadurai.
Four persons,including a woman,were injured in a blast in Sopore town of north Kashmir's Baramulla district,officials said.
Around 20 per cent polling was recorded till mid-day in the by-elections to one Lok Sabha and 31 Assembly seats spread over seven states.
Five railwaymen,including an officer,were run over by Delhi-bound Dehradun Janshatabdi Express near Ghaziabad at around 11.30 am.
Ex-Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda,under investigation from the ED and I-T dept,will not be discharged from hospital on Saturday as he had a stomach upset.
Faheem Ansari,accused of facilitating 26/11 attacks,has moved the HC seeking re-trial on the ground that he had no confidence in the judge.
'Government is aware of the problems faced by the entrepreneurs and is committed to providing every sort of facility to them so that they can effectively contribute their bit in making the State industrially prosperous.'
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed officials to speed up the work on the upcoming AIIMS in Bhopal.
Hours before Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's visit to Midnapore,three youths were shot dead by Maoists in Kusbani jungle in the district.
Seven students were injured,two of them seriously,when their school van was hit by a mini truck near Kashmere Gate in Delhi.
A student of IIT-Mumbai allegedly shot himself dead at his home here and police said a suicide note reflected his "disenchantment" with life.


