'Sachin Pilot has revived the Congress.' 'What goes in favour of Ashok Gehlot is experience.'

Under the party's rules, May's leadership of the party cannot be challenged for at least a year now.

The party claimed it has the support of the independent candidates also.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will take the final call on Wednesday on who will be the chief minister.

However, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her five cabinet colleagues have won their respective constituencies.

The unity by the opposition parties is likely to reflect inside Parliament as well.

The opposition made it clear during the meeting that it will press for a joint parliamentary committee to probe the Rafale jet deal and raise several issues, including the "misuse" of probe agencies and the autonomy for Reserve Bank of India.

'Across the country -- in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Manipur, Delhi, Bihar, West Bengal -- men were lynched on suspicion of being thieves by ordinary people armed with rods and sticks.' 'But none of these lynchings made big news.' 'None of these lynchings were cow/beef-related.' 'The perpetrators were unknown people, not so-called gau rakshaks.' 'So why were these instances of mob violence considered less newsworthy than cow-related lynchings?' asks Jyoti Punwani.

'We were supposed to be a united nation based on unity and diversity.' 'Now what we are doing is there will be a class called Marathas, Dangars, etc.' 'The 100 per cent of our nation's population will be in classes and you will be allocating the nation's education and service resources in terms of classes.' 'How does it work out in terms of equality? Where is your equal nation?'

'Power is always transitory, and you should be the same person whether you have it or not,' the head of the number one law firm in India tells Pavan Lall.

'If the charge is not given immediately, we will contest all upcoming elections, that is (Assembly) by-election and Lok Sabha polls, by fielding our candidates against official candidate of the government'

'In his 2014 election campaign, Mr Modi had boasted that he would apply the Gujarat model to the rest of India. We just have to ensure he doesn't start with Parliament,' says Shashi Tharoor in this fascinating excerpt from his new book, The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India.

'Visiting my friend in his affluent locality, I realised that the Delhi weather had become the great equaliser.' 'Pollution was always in the air, everywhere, and had become the primary subject of all conversations,' notes Ambassador B S Prakash.

These measures are in addition to other proposals made earlier, including regulation of sale and consumption of liquor, free trips to certain religious places like Sabarimala and distribution of one lakh cows every year.

In his first tweet after election results started coming in US President Trump claimed success. "Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!".

The ruling BJP stole a march on the Congress on Friday by releasing its first list of 177 candidates for the assembly polls.

'Most Indians know very little about Patel which is a great shame.'

England, who have won both the one-day and Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka, play a two-day practice match in Colombo before heading to Galle which hosts the first of the three Test matches from November 6.

Duvvuri Subbarao recounts how his tensions with P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee, then finance ministers, over monetary policy spilled over into other issues in the central bank in this excerpt from Who Moved My Interest Rate?, his memoir of his term as Reserve Bank of India governor.

Given that there are hundreds of players in the shadow banking space, it's hard to make a credible estimate of potential NPAs. That creates more scope for panic, says Devangshu Datta.

'In being dismissive of Naveen, his colleagues showed incredible naivety.' 'On the few occasions that he put his foot down, the overconfident party leaders, who believed they were using him and not the other way around, failed to read the signs of what was to come.'

The apex court also rejected the plea to appoint a Special Investigation Team for probe.

Prasad alleged there was pressure for extraneous considerations and 'bribe' for not finalising the Rafale deal during the UPA rule.

The Congress legislators, led by Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar, demanded that the governor should summon one-day session of the assembly for a floor test.

HUFs are not used for tax evasion but for tax avoidance/to save the tax within the four corners of the law. Experts say that there will be little or almost insignificant change in tax revenues.

Earlier, BJP leader Ram Lal said the Goa government is stable and no demand has been made for a change in the leadership.

'BJP central observers have come to Goa and are scheming to merge smaller parties within their party to run the government.'

Noting that oil prices had gone down after the BJP-led government came to power in May 2014, before they went up, Prasad said it is a problem whose solution is not in its hands.

'My immediate concern is restoring prestige and decorum of Rajya Sabha...'

India will benefit hugely if the representation of women in Parliament is increased to a just level.

'The youth associated with this movement were extremely talented.' 'But I personally believe violence cannot change anything in the world.'

Why Dalit leaders cross over to the BJP

"The RSS is trying to change the nature of India. Other parties haven't tried to capture India's institutions," he said.

Sachin P Mampatta goes back in time to recall a deluge that that has passed into lore in Kerala.

Khan stressed on taking austerity measures, working on tax reforms instead of taking loans, rooting out corruption.

Invest in liquid funds if you have a horizon of three months, ultra-short-term for six months, and low-duration funds for one year.

'We have to find a way out of this confrontational politics.'

As proof of the potential outcome, AIADMK sources pointed to the election of TDP's C M Ramesh to the prestigious PAC, which was enabled by the Opposition voting for him.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu announced in the House that the election will be held at 11 am on August 9.

The passage of this major legislation comes ahead of the general election due early next year.