The Congress and the NCP are allies both at the Centre and in Maharashtra, with an uneasy arrangement keeping the clock ticking.

Monday , 9 June '08
Sarkar Raj could not have been more opportune. In recent days, nothing has raised more political turmoil than land acquisition...
Saturday , 7 June '08
When RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda met at a Ranchi hotel on May 27...
Friday , 6 June '08
The death of 14 people in renewed clashes between two factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland...
Thursday , 5 June '08
A few months before the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress is trying hard to put up a show of unity.
Wednesday , 4 June '08
The Himachal Pradesh government is ready with its wish list to greet the Finance Commission team when it comes visiting this week.
Tuesday , 3 June '08
National leaders rarely manage to create an impression through their fleeting visits during polls.
Monday , 2 June '08
When the former chief minister of Maharashtra, Narayan Rane, crossed over to the Congress from the Shiv Sena in 2005...
Saturday , 31 May '08
On the invitation of Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the Hurriyat Conference will soon visit Pakistan.
Friday , 30 May '08
In the ongoing Gurjjar protests in Rajasthan-surfacing a year after a similar agitation for Scheduled Tribe status-there seems to be a distinct refrain: don’t mention the rival Meena community.
Thursday , 29 May '08
On Monday, Uma Bharati launched yet another yatra. As the Bharatiya Janshakti Party chief increasingly finds herself out in the cold...
Wednesday , 28 May '08
Basudev Yadav, the 70-year-old who ‘pioneered’ the kidnapping industry in Bihar, surrendered to the police last week.
Tuesday , 27 May '08
Joania is a small gram panchayat in Nadia district of West Bengal where the CPI(M) has never lost.
Monday , 26 May '08
Mugadha Patil (name changed) was training to be a nurse at a corporate hospital in Pune. But when the hospital came to know of her HIV status...
Friday , 23 May '08
Two events concerning the police, one unusual and the other on expected lines, have marked Gujarat’s news calendar in recent days.
Thursday , 22 May '08
The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry’s plan to introduce pictorial warnings on tobacco packs seems to have gone up in smoke again.
Wednesday , 21 May '08
First it was the name row over Bombay and Mumbai. Now, the Shiv Sena has targetted Pune.
Tuesday , 20 May '08
The buzz in the state capital is that filmstar Chiranjeevi is all set to launch his political party.
Monday , 19 May '08
In another four days, Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh will hold a by-election for a Lok Sabha seat...
Saturday , 17 May '08
Three years and many political storms later, nine men accused in the sensational Kanichukulangara highway killings...