The race hots up!
Margaret Alva and Najma Heptulla are front-runners in the vice-presidency contest.
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UF ultimatum to Laloo to resign by June 27
A senior Janata Dal leader told Rediff On The NeT that Prime Minister I K Gujral has served the ultimatum to the Bihar chief minister through a party functionary
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Laloo Yadav ignores top UF leaders's appeal
The Bihar chief minister is unwilling to step down, and may form a regional party.
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Gujral plans to make study of human rights mandatory in schools, colleges
The prime minister has asked Cabinet Secretary T S R Subramanian to hold a high-level meeting of 19 secretaries to the Government of India on Monday to discuss a Source Book on human rights for students, teachers and academics.
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DMK gears up for Stalin's entry, TMC's exit
The party conference next week will throw light on Karunanidhi's game-plan.
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Naidu incurs scheduled castes's wrath
The Telugu Desam government's decision to categorise scheduled castes into four categories has created fresh problems for the Andhra Pradesh chief minister.
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Housewives more prone to suicide than others
Over 12 per cent of the country's suicides, the National Crime Records Bureau has found, are accounted for by stale marital relations.
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JUNE 21

What are friends for?
The government delays efforts to prosecute Sitaram Kesri in foreign donations case.
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Verma resigns from ministry, seeks anticipatory bail in fodder scam
The anti-Laloo Yadav faction is elated by the prime minister's decision.
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Narayanan's election as President certain
The BJP decides to back the vice-president hours after he filed his nomination as a common candidate of the United Front and the Congress.
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Basu Bhattacharya dead
The director was 63 and suffered from acute pancreatitis.
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Hopes sink, but searches continue for Arcadia Pride survivors
Shipping experts ruled out foul play, pointing out the ship was 23 years old. After 15 years of sailing, stringent precautions have to be taken if a ship is carrying cargo.
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India to sign extradition treaty with the US
To further strengthen co-operation between India and the United States in fighting terrorism, Minister of State for External Affairs Salim Sherwani will sign an extradition treaty on his three-day official visit to Washington.
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Madras high court verdict may help Jaya in faction war
Sacked AIADMK deputy general secretary Thirunavukkarasu will now find it difficult to establish his majority in the party.
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June 22, 1897. A hundred years later, the memories live on
''Gondiya ala re.'' Those words will reverberate across Pune on Sunday, when tributes will be paid to the Chapekar brothers who shook the British empire a hundred years ago by killing an officer of the Raj.
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JUNE 20

Laloo Yadav files anticipatory bail plea
He is the first chief minister in the history of independent India to file such a petition while being in office.
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Supreme Court asks Dandavate, Reddy to oversee JD poll
A vacation bench comprising Justice S C Sen and Justice S P Kurudukar passed the order setting aside the June 17 judgment of a two-judge bench of the Delhi high court.
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JD top brass intensifies 'oust Laloo Yadav' campaign
JD leaders like Sharad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan and H D Deve Gowda have told Prime Minister I K Gujral that the Bihar chief minister should be thrown out of the party immediately.
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UF declares virtual war on Mayawati government
Addressing a massive rally in Lucknow, top Front leaders warned that the Centre could not remain a passive spectator if the atrocities against political workers continued.
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Seshan files nomination for Presidential poll
The former chief election commissioner and two others on Thursday filed their nominations for the July 14 poll.
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Jitendra Prasada is Congress vice-president
Sitaram Kesri also announced that the proposed coordination committee between the United Front and the Congress would be announced in a day or two.
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Gujral establishes hotline with Sharief
The facility was launched hours ahead of the crucial second round of foreign secretary-level talks between the two nations in Islamabad.
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Rajnikant's anti-Jaya speech didn't encourage bribery: Madras high court
Justice Karpagavinayagam said it was clear that the star's propaganda was to throw out the allegedly corrupt Jayalalitha Jayaram government by seeking support for the DMK-TMC combine.
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Sandhu defended India against Kalashnikovs, but succumbed to the new treachery
Tarn Taran police chief Ajit Singh Sandhu risked everything to defend democracy, but was transformed into her greatest villain without trial, laments former Punjab police chief K P S Gill.
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Amnesty accuses Indian police, militants of arbitrary killings
The organisation's Indian chief said that torture, rape and ill-treatment were ''endemic throughout the country''.
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Four dead, 20 missing as Indian ship sinks
'M V Arcadia Pride sank on Thursday morning about eight nautical miles off the Bombay coast.
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Kerala's half-baked move puts students in dire straits
The government said one third of the pre-degree batches would be linked to schools from this academic year. However, it is yet to announce the names of the schools where the course would be offered.
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JUNE 19

Governor misled, claims Laloo
The Bihar CM claims the CBI got him prosecuted fraudulently.
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Get tough on Laloo, Naidu tells Gujral
Telugu Desam leader and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has told Prime Minister I K Gujral that any vacillation on the Laloo Yadav imbroglio could threaten the 13-party ruling combine at the Centre.
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Laloo cries foul as BJP, CPI-M go on the offensive
Amidst mounting demand for his resignation, the Bihar chief minister terms the governor's act in sanctioning his prosecution as 'politically motivated'.
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Defence minister says missiles will be used whenever necessary
But Mulayam Singh Yadav refutes Pakistan's charges that India has deployed the missiles.
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Half the IAF women trainee pilots quit every year
Aptitudinal problems, inability to cope with training, ensured that only two women pilots selected for the sixth short service commission course got their 'wings'.
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25 killed in Kashmir valley
An army major and 18 militants, including nine foreign mercenaries, were among the 25 people killed in the Kashmir valley.
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Pak ethnic violence claims 5
Attacks on the Haqiqi faction follows killing of MQM leader's followers.
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Former Pak army chief hints at return of military rule
The move may be necessary since the Nawaz Sharief government has failed on economic and political fronts, says General Mirza Aslam Beg.
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JUNE 18

Spurning Dr Sharma
Setting up a 10-member co-ordination committee for a constant dialogue on crucial policy issues between the Congress and UF was a pre-condition that the President imposed for the installation of the Gujral government in April. Two months later, that committee has not yet been formed.
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Bihar governor gives CBI permission to prosecute Laloo Yadav
Raj Bhavan sources said the governor, finding prima facie evidence against the accused in the CBI's draft chargesheet, gave his permission for prosecuting the chief minister, two of his cabinet colleagues and former chief minister Dr Jagannath Mishra.
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Kalyan Singh tipped as Advani's successor
By electing its first-ever backward president, the BJP would be in a position to erase its 'upper caste' label.
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JD election: Delhi high court overturns single judge verdict
The court asks the Janata Dal executive to finalise new dates for the poll.
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The Man who will be President
K R Narayanan's emergence as the front-runner in the Presidential race is no mean achievement at a time when Rashtrapati Bhavan has come to assume great political significance in these days of fractured verdicts and coalition politics.
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Sena to back Seshan in Presidential poll
The former CEC could be the strong President India needs, one who can rise above caste and religion, says Bal Thackeray.
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Japan refuses compensation for war atrocities on Indian soil
The Japanese government has turned down a demand made by Indian MPs to compensate Andaman tribals for the war atrocities against them during World War II.
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