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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley`s maiden Budget on Thursday is expected to be a tightrope walk of trying to meet demands for tax sops especially from the middle class and pursuing fiscal prudence to spur investment and growth.

Lalu Prasad talked tough on Saturday, offering Congress 11 of the 40 seats in Bihar with a deadline to respond before the RJD parliamentary board meeting at 3pm on Sunday, deepening the uncertainty over the two parties` strategy for the electoral battle ahead.

The government was investigating the alleged foreign funding to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as per a Delhi High Court order, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Tuesday.

Politicians from all parties decide to strike down the proposals made by Supreme Court with regard to convicted politicians and RTI for political parties.

Most exit polls for the Bihar election indicated a pitched battle between the BJP-led NDA and the JDU-RJD-Congress Alliance (Mahagathbandan), with the projection being that the Grand Alliance had the edge over the NDA.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa spent the night at a special cell set up in the women`s wing of the Bangalore Central Jail, after a city court found her guilty in an 18-year-old corruption case on Saturday.

The sting footage shows Aam Aadmi Party candidate from RK Puram Shazia Ilmi being asked by a reporter who wanted the party to campaign against a company. When asked by the AAP leader about a documentary evidence, the journalist offered to pay money.

LK Advani, the BJP`s most senior leader had an early birthday gift for Narendra Modi, the party`s prime ministerial candidate. Public praise.

Blaming hoarders for the rise in food inflation, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said there is `no panic situation` and asked the states to take measures to crackdown on hoarding and black marketing to rein in prices.

Petrol price was today hiked by 60 paise a litre, the second increase this year, and diesel by 50 paise per litre, the 14th hike since January 2013.