
Continuing his attack on the BJP over the Sushma Swaraj-Lalit Modi row, Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Wednesday said that the external affairs minister must clarify if she met the former IPL chief at a London hotel last year minus representatives of the Indian High Commission....
Pakistan has approved a coal-based 1,400-MW power project by the Shanghai Electric Group of China in Sindh province....
At least 25 militants, including three key commanders, were killed in clashes with security forces in North Waziristan region of Pakistan on Wednesday. ...
Telangana's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has issued notice to two Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders, while party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is also likely to be summoned for questioning in the cash-for-vote scam. ...

BJP president Amit Shah will take lessons from a Muslim yoga teacher at a special camp here on June 21 - International Yoga Day....
IPL's controversial former chief Lalit Modi on Tuesday admitted close relations with Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, and said he has been "over criticised" and "taken to task" by the former UPA government....
With the Narendra Modi government facing its first major controversy ahead of crucial Bihar polls over Sushma Swaraj's help to former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, the RSS has intervened to ensure that the BJP presents a united face and there is no internal bickering, said informed sources....

Adding a new twist to the Lalit Modi controversy, the name of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje cropped up on Tuesday with allegations that she testified in favour of the former IPL chief's British immigration application in 2011. The Congress demanded Raje's resignation....
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's comment that the army has lost respect because there has been no war in the long time drew flak on Tuesday with the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement calling it "insensitive"....
In remarks that will trigger controversy, the BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit chief Laxmikant Bajpayi on Tuesday said he found the mouth of Islamic clerics stinks....