The Supreme Court Tuesday asked BSES Yamuna and BSES Rajdhani, among the three private power distribution firms in the capital, to pay their current dues to NTPC by May 31 and said supplies from the state-run generator will continue till then.
Priyanka Gandhi's "neech rajniti" (low-level politics) barb at Narendra Modi got a caste spin with the BJP prime ministerial candidate using it to play upon his 'lower caste' identity. The Congress accused Modi of deliberately misinterpreting facts while BSP leader Mayawati attacked him for his "despicable politics" for electoral benefit.
The Punjab government Monday announced that a "Cotton Mechanisation Programme" would be introduced in the cotton-producing Malwa belt of south-west Punjab.
BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's comment about Smriti Irani in Amethi showed her "arrogance at its worst".
In his complaint, Harpreet Singh said Ramdev had hurt religious sentiments of Sikhs after he was shown in a photograph at a yoga camp at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda district with a photograph of the 10th guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, placed near his feet.
Saying he was no know-all leader, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has disclosed that he relied a lot on "professionals and domain experts" in governance and believed that the "single-minded focus" on attacking him was what "brought a lot of support from the people of India to me".