Politics

The court also directed the Petroleum Ministry and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to cooperate in the probe.

Shiv Sena also said that Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan should also step down owning the moral responsibility of Congress' defeat in the state.

Some of the Congress's active members, who were enjoying the perks of holding government and statutory positions may end up losing these coveted benefits.

"The victory of the PDP is the reaction of the masses to NC's anti-people policies," Geelani said.

In the run-up to the elections, Deve Gowda said that Modi can never reach his numbers.

National Conference drew a blank in the just-concluded general elections.

Modi is likley to discuss the creation of Telangana as well as President's rule in Delhi at the meet.

The Congress-NCP alliance contested 27 seats in the state and won only six seats. The Congress, on its own, won only two seats.

Mulayam is likely to act tough against those Samajwadi Party ministers in whose areas the party fared very badly.

Rahul had announced about his pet project at an AICC meeting wherein the candidate would be finalised by asking party workers but the experiment to empower grassroot leaders has fallen flat.

Strong regional parties like BSP, SP, RJD, RLD, INLD have been badly mauled in the Lok Sabha elections.

Narendra Modi arrived in Varanasi with BJP chief Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, the architect of saffron party's landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh.

Union Minister Veerappa Moily after a neck and neck fight with BN Bache Gowda finally emerged victorious in the Chikkballapur constituency.

Union Minister V Narayansamy is the present Lok Sabha MP from Pondicherry.

The BJP has done remarkably well in the key battle ground states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar decimating the regional satraps.

Tamil Nadu has 39 Lok Sabha seats.