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If politics is the art of survival, RJD boss Lalu Prasad and JD (U) chief Nitish Kumar would be its most consummate artists. However, courtesy a resurgent BJP that won 31 out of Bihar`s 40 Lok Sabha seats in May this year, the two Bihar icons have not only joined hands but would be campaigning together for the first time since 1990.

The opposition parties on Wednesday targeted the BJP and RSS in both Houses of Parliament over alleged forced conversion of 57 Muslim families in Agra and accused the government of following the Hindutva agenda, a charge rejected by BJP ministers.

The Tamil Nadu government has decided to release seven people convicted in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, including Nalini Sriharan, in a politically loaded move that is likely to set off a battle for credit ahead of the national election, due by May.

Sulking over National Democratic Alliance allies Hindustani Awam Morcha and RLSP having got a "better deal" under the seat sharing formula for Bihar polls announced on Monday, the Lok Janshakti Party called truce after a string of meetings with top Bharatiya Janaya Party leaders but insisted `there is no smoke without fire`

Delhi BJP leader Vijay Jolly led a protest outside Shoma Chaudhury`s home and vandalised the exterior of the building. An embarrassed BJP condemned and disowned Jolly`s actions, and promised `Suitable Aaction` against him.

Authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, have banned international taxi-booking service Uber after a driver allegedly raped a female passenger.

After Pranab Mukherjee`s I-Day address PM Dr. Manmohan Singh also warns PAK in his I-DAY speech from RED FORT

Finance minister Arun Jaitley today blamed external global factors for the market`s crash specially China , while defending domestic factors. He said that external factors are responsible for the current turbulence in the markets, adding that not a single domestic factor has contributed to it. India has sufficient foreign exchange reserves to intervene in the market to curb any possible volatility in the rupee, the Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said Monday.

The fate of the AAP government`s odd-even scheme is likely to be decided on Monday, when the Delhi high court takes a call on whether to end it or allow it to run till January 15.

There are reports that the BJP which won the second highest number of 25 seats in J&K assembly elections basically from the Jammu region, a Hindu dominated area and PDP which won the highest number of 28 seats from the Muslim dominated Kashmir Valley are coming together to form the Government in J&K -