Politics

Karunanidhi said the media was not writing much about the assets case faced by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in a Bangalore court.

It was the first meeting of the UPA Coordination Committee headed by Sonia Gandhi after the worst electoral debacle of the Congress.

Kamal Nath will be the Protem Speaker who will preside over the proceedings of the House till the election of the Speaker on June 6.

Though KCR did not extend a similar courtesy to him, Chandrababu chose not be discourteous towards his erstwhile colleague, TDP sources said.

This is probably the last ministerial expansion of the Congress-NCP government, whose third term in office ends in four months.

There have been celebrations across the 10 districts of the newly formed state of Telangana since midnight.

Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that he is calling a meeting for the purpose on June 2 of various stake holders.

"It was a courtesy meeting and Jung conveyed his best wishes to the Prime Minister," a government release said.

The Narendra Modi Cabinet will meet for the second time in 48 hours on Thursday.

Madhu Kishwar, who has a supernatural capacity to be in the news with the most combative of statements, has now invoked the dreaded N-word against Smriti Irani.

Venkaiah Naidu is also set to take charge as the Parliamentary Affairs Minister.

The MEA said Narendra Modi had been invited back by the SAARC leaders to their countries and Modi had accepted their invitations.

Singh (64) started his career from Motihari in Bihar as an ABVP Nagar Pramukh way back in 1967.

In just-concluded Lok Sabha election, Maneka won from the Pilibhit constituency by a margin of over 3 lakh votes.

Uddhav Thackeray said, "So far only India has taken initiative of forgetting the past and starting afresh. Hence, it is difficult to trust Pakistan."

Singhal listed other issues which he said were related to Hindutva and could be worked out within the framework of the Constitution.