BJP organise communal riots in Congress-ruled states in the hope for 2014 poll gain: Digvijaya Singh.
Bangalore:
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday claimed that the BJP might organise communal riots in Congress-ruled states in the hope of winning Lok Sabha elections due in 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) feels it cannot win the election without "communalising" the situation, he said addressing the general body meeting of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee in Bangalore.
Singh, recently appointed in-charge of Congress affairs in Karnataka, urged the party government in the state to be on vigil to put down attempts to create communal disturbance. In his address to the meeting, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah assured that his government would put down any attempts at creating communal disturbance in the state.
New Delhi: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily has expressed doubts over the amendment to the Right to Information Bill saying the timing may not be right, considering the poor perception about politicians, said sources. The amendment, aimed at keeping political parties out of the RTI ambit, is likely to be taken up by the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Bangalore: The ruling Congress party candidates were racing ahead of their rival JDS in Mandya and Bangalore rural Lok Sabha constituencies in the August 21 bypolls as counting of votes was taken up on Saturday.
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Friday promised to enact a law that would let people frame their laws in Delhi if his party won the coming election.
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has issued arrest warrants against 70 top Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders including Ashok Singhal, Pravin Togadia and Ram Vilas Vedanti after the party said it will go ahead with its proposed Ayodhya yatra from August 25 (Sunday).
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi jointly inaugurated the information and broadcasting ministry's new Rs. 60 crore National Media Centre on Raisina Road in New Delhi on Saturday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said he was eagerly awaiting the central government to accord special category status to the state.
New Delhi:
"If India is computer, Congress is its default programme," Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told a Congress workshop on social media. Addressing odd-300 participants from various states, NSUI and Youth Congress members, the Congress Vice President said the party captures the essence of the nation.
New Delhi:
After anti-BJP parties, the country's civil society has taken on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in cyberspace. 
New Delhi: Putting to rest any speculation that the Centre might raise the retirement age of its staff, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V Narayanasamy said on Thursday that there was no such proposal on the anvil.
New Delhi: Under persistent pressure from the opposition parties, the UPA government is expected to allow a discussion on missing files pertaining to coal block allocations in Parliament on Thursday. 
New Delhi: Seeking to come out of his ‘retirement’, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday expressed his desire to contest next year’s Lok Sabha polls. 
Government has taken a number of steps to stem the depreciation of Indian rupee including moderation in demand of non-essential imports and enhancing supply of capital flows, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
By-polls to Mandya and Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha seats will be held today with 36.37 lakh voters expected to exercise their franchise at the end of a bitterly fought battle between the ruling Congress and JD(S).
As many as 190 cases of electoral offences have been booked in Mandya and Bangalore Rural constituencies facing Lok Sabha by-elections on Wednesday.
Keen to pass Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's pet welfare legislation, the Food Security Bill, but concerned over the large number of amendments (over 260) moved by the opposition parties, the government has indicated it would accommodate some of them.
Both houses of parliament were adjourned till Thursday after being repeatedly disrupted over the BJP's demand for a statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the missing files related to the allocation of coal blocks.
