Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy who faced a lot of flak from the opposition, got a reprieve on Wednesday when the CBI did not include his former gunman in the list of six accused in a land usurping case....
The BJP and the Congress were on Wednesday locked in an all-out war over tit-for-tat corruption charges as continuing uproar over the demand for the resignations of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan chief ministers again crippled parliament....
Delhi's Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and the AAP government were locked in another spat on Wednesday, with Jung rejecting the city government's appointment of Swati Maliwal as the new chief of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW)....
Kerala's home department on Wednesday served a show cause notice to Additional Director General of Police Rishiraj Singh for protocol breach by him at a function attended by Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala....

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday reasserted that union minister Sushma Swaraj and two BJP chief ministers will not resign over the Lalit Modi controversy and Vyapam scam and termed opposition allegations on the issues as "baseless"....
The AAP on Wednesday alleged that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, when he was Goa's chief minister, awarded a consultancy contract to the now tainted Louis Berger firm, despite having "specific information" about the corruption the US-based company was involved in....
Releasing five terrorists in lieu of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohamed Sayeed in 1989 was a grave mistake, said Farooq Abdullah, former J&K chief minister. ...
Curfew in Rajouri town remained in force for the second successive day on Wednesday without any relaxation even as authorities said no untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the town....
At least 10 people were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab on Wednesday, a media report said. ...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday termed the opposition's conduct in parliament "unfortunate" after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj expressed her willingness to make a statement on the Lalit Modi issue. ...