NEW DELHI: A majority of Congress MLAs in Assam have favoured the removal of TarunGogoi as chief minister, virtually clearing the decks for a change of guard in the North-Eastern state.

PATNA: Former deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday claimed the Jitan Ram Manjhi government was in minority due to rebellion by 18 ruling JD (U) MLAs who voted against the party candidates in the Rajya Sabha byelection recently

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday opposed rising inflation and increase in rail fare seeking an immediate rollback. He also sought reconsideration of a possible hike in gas prices.

 NEW DELHI: To resolve inter-ministerial coordination issues, which was cited as one of the main reasons behind delay in road and other projects, it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who mooted the need to set up a committee of infrastructure ministers under Nitin Gadkari.

NEW DELHI: The monsoon has weakened over the past few days after a brief spurt of activity last week and Met officials said a revival can be expected only by the first week of July.

PANAJI: The proposed eight-to-nine day Europe tour planned by the tourism department to promote the upcoming exposition of the sacred relics of St Francis Xavier scheduled to begin in Goa from November 22 has been scrapped.

NEW DELHI: A nondescript Hindu outfit, which calls itself Shri Hanuman Sena, has threatened to physically harm top Pakistani diplomats in the country.

PATNA: BJP legislators would meet soon to discuss the possibility of bringing a no-confidence motion against the Bihar government in the monsoon session of the state assembly beginning June 27.

SHIMLA: In its status report filed in the Himachal Pradesh high court on Beas tragedy, in which 24 engineering students from Hyderabad and their co-tour guide had lost their lives in the swollen river, the state government has stated that it has asked the power department to get an inquiry conducted into the working of State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) and Northern Regional Load Disptach Centre (NRLDC) by a technical person not below the rank of chief engineer. The inquiry would ascertain as to why only the state run power projects were asked to reduce power generation while other projects continued to run on full, or in some cases above, capacity.

WASHINGTON: The US military began deploying assessment teams in Baghdad on Tuesday to evaluate the state of Iraqi security forces and decide how to help them counter an Islamist insurgency that has overrun part of the country, the Pentagon said.