New Delhi, Jan 27 (ANI): In the name of development, Chief Minister Mayawati can only boast of statues of herself or Dalit icons across Uttar Pradesh, but the common man in the state who is yet to savour the pleasure of having basic civic amenities, will most naturally think for whom he or she should vote for, or may even opt for a total Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) poll boycott.

Dehradun, Jan 27 (ANI): Union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said only the most distinguished persons who are held in high prestige, deserve the country's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

Dehradun, Jan 27: Union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its divisive politics, saying such tactics would not be fruitful in the contemporary scenario.

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Jan 27, 2012, (IANS), India's indigenous Lakshya-II pilotless target aircraft has been tested successfully off a test range in Balasore, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has said.

New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) In a breather for External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, the Supreme Court Friday stayed the probe by the Karnataka Lokayukta police into the de-reservation of 11,620 sq km of forest land for mining when he was the Karnataka chief minister during 1999-2004.

Patna, Jan 27 (IANS) Of the central funds it received, Bihar utilized just 50 percent in the first 10 months of this fiscal, leaving the state — riding high on development claims — with an astronomical Rs.14,000 crore (Rs.140 billion) to spend during the next two months!

Washington, Jan 27 (IANS) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has made clear that she won’t be serving in a second Obama term if there is one, is ready to step off “the high wire of American politics”.

New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) An abandoned two-year-old baby Friday continued to be in a critical condition at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where she is being treated for human bites and other injuries. Her plight moved Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to offer help.

New Delhi, Jan 26 (ANI): Finance Minster Pranab Mukherjee would be leaving for a two-day official visit to Chicago, US, on Saturday during which he is expected to hold discussions with business leaders of the corporate world.

New Delhi, Jan 27: The Supreme Court will today hear a petition by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna challenging the registration of an FIR by the Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) police on allegations that he had illegally de-reserved forest blocks for mining when he was chief minister 1999-2004.A bench of Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra will hear the matter when it would be mentioned before the bench later in the day.

New Delhi: Anna Hazare Thursday appealed to people in the election-bound states to vote for candiates who promised they would, if elected, support the enactment of a Lokayukta bill on the lines of the one passed by the Uttarakhand assembly.

Washington, Jan 26 (IANS) The Indian community in the US celebrated the Republic Day with the Ambassador Nirupama Rao unfurling the national flag at a colourful function at the Indian embassy here on a rain swept chilly day.

Chennai/Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 26 (IANS) Kerala Governor M.O.H. Farook Thursday died in a private hospital in Chennai due to multiple myeloma – a cancer of plasma cells – at the age of 75, officials said. A seven-day state mourning has been declared in Kerala.

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her state department employees that she was ready to be out of the public eye.

Ambedkar Nagar, Jan 25 (ANI): Taking a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has done nothing but siphoned off public money in the last four years.

Lakhimpur/Sitapur, Jan 25 (ANI): Lashing out at Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Congress party general secretary Digvijay Singh called him an 'opportunist.'

New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Ten people of Indian origin and foreigners have been awarded India's prestigious Padma awards announced Wednesday. While seven have got the Padma Bhushan, three are listed for the Padma Shri.

Ghazal and bhajan singer Anup Jalota and acclaimed filmmaker Priyadarshan will receive the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award, it was announced here Wednesday.

New Delhi, Jan 25, Amid the democratic transition in Myanmar, Foreign Minister U. Wunna Maung Lwin Friday assured the international community that there will be “no turning back or derailment” of his nation’s road to democracy and that the reform process initiated by the year-old elected civilian government is “irreversible.”

Washington, Jan 25, Virtually launching his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama hit out at “outsourcing” as he called keeping alive the American dream "the defining issue of our time" and pledged to fight obstruction by opposition Republicans.