Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was overwhelmed with greeting and adulation, he received, even from unexpected quarters, on his 62nd birthday on Monday.

Modi gets greeting from unexpected quarters on 62nd birthday

Business Standard

Though foreign direct investment (FDI) and fuel price hike may be the immediate trigger for Trinamool leader Mukul Roy to resign from the Union Cabinet but the Indian Railways may not miss much. For the national transporter, he was an invisible minister.

Mukul Roy may not be missed much at Rail Bhawan

As a direct fallout of the exit of Trinamool Congress (TMC) from the UPA government, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee&rsquo;s son Abhijit might find himself in troubled waters in the coming bye-election of Jangipur Lok Sabha seat.

Mamata may queer pitch for Pranab's son in by-poll

West Bengal unit of Congress party is now mulling to take legal action against state chief minister and Trinamool supremo for mimicking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a interview with a national channel, indicating growing bitterness between the two parties.

Bengal Congress mulls legal action against Mamata for mimicking PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today led the Rajya Sabha in felicitating Hamid Ansari on his second term as Vice President and Chairman of the House, saying his re-election was a tribute to his qualities.

Ansari felicitated in RS on second term as VP

Press Trust of India

BJP President Nitin Gadkari and JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav today shared the dais with yoga guru Ramdev, who attacked Congress and asked people to throw out the UPA government accusing it of not acting against corruption and black money.

Gadkari, Sharad Yadav at Ramdev's protest venue

With confidence-building measures and scaled up security in place, exodus of Northeasterners from here for their home-states fearing backlash over Assam violence has stopped, police and railway officials said today.

Exodus has stopped, say police, railway officials

Stepping up its drive against &quot;erring&quot; portals, government has ordered blocking of more than 250 websites in which morphed images and videos were uploaded to incite Muslims leading to exodus of people belonging to the northeast from Karnataka and some other states.

Govt orders blocking over 250 websites that led to exodus

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he is sincerely hoping that Rahul Gandhi will &quot;seriously&quot; consider his request to join the government.

I hope Rahul will seriously consider joining govt: PM

Faction-ridden ruling BJP in Karnataka suffered a humiliation today when Pranab Mukherjee secured a backing of 117 MLAs as against PA Sangma's 103, with some BJP members cross-voting in favour of the UPA nominee.

Cross-voting in favour of Pranab in Karnataka

Soon after being elected the President of the country, Pranab Mukherjee called up JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav and thanked him for his party's support to him.

Pranab thanks JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav for support

In a veiled warning to the Centre, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee today said she will wait for a few days for her demand of a three-year moratorium on loan repayment to be accepted after which she will decide her future course of action.

Mamata's veiled warning to Centre on moratorium issue

Rubbishing all criticism of Manmohan Singh being a weak Prime Minister, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid today said he is the best person for the job and has provided &quot;thoughtful, philosophical&quot; leadership in uncertain times.

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