NEW DELHI: Former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal may be in serious trouble as the CBI is planning to approach the Lok Sabha Speaker for permission to initiate a probe against him in the railway bribery scandal, top sources told TOI.

CHENNAI: In the ninth reshuffle of her cabinet since the AIADMK came to power in May 2011, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday dropped two ministers and inducted two, besides changing the portfolios of three ministers.

MUMBAI: Narendra Modi has chosen Mumbai to begin his innings as the BJP's poster boy for the 2014 general elections. The Gujarat chief minister will visit the city on June 27, his first after his elevation as chairman of the party's poll panel.

YAMUNANAGAR: Seventy-two people, including 20 children and 15 women, stranded on a tract of land for over 12 hours after torrential rains flooded their villages

NEW DELHI: The bitter falling out between BJP and JD(U) was evident with the saffron party releasing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's 2003 speech in which he praised Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as a leader with a future outside the state.

LOUGH ERNE, (Northern Ireland): US President Barack Obama will seek the help on Monday of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's most powerful ally, to bring Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table and end a two-year civil war.

NEW DELHI: Punctuality, an important defining character of Judges, is the latest casualty in the Supreme Court, the role model for high courts and the subordinate courts.

PATNA: With the ruling coalition in Bihar appearing headed for a split, BJP leaders in the state on Saturday refused to meet chief minister Nitish Kumar.

HYDERABAD: Several leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) were arrested by the police on Friday as they were trying to march to the Andhra Pradesh assembly to press the demand for a separate Telangana state.

THRISSUR: A left democratic alternative of regional parties for "electoral adjustments" and not a third front is what the CPM has in mind. The front will only be a temporary arrangement based on seat adjustments and tactics as part of the party's election strategy, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters here on Thursday.