Sharad Yadav Arrested

A united Opposition candidate for the presidential elections will be the beginning of unity among the non-BJP parties to take on the BJP, senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, seen as one of the probable Opposition choices, said today. Having met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week as part of efforts to put up a joint Opposition candidate for the hig...

Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav today said JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been arrested on sedition charges, is "innocent" and demanded his immediate release.

Union Railway Minister Pawan Bansal's nephew, V Singla was yesterday arrested along with a Member of the Railway Board in connection with alleged bribery of Rs.90 lakh for fixing a top level position in the government. Sources say, Mr Bansal who met the Prime Minister this afternoon has offered to resign.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters, who began a march towards Parliament from their camp at Ramlila Maidan at about 1 this afternoon, have been stopped at the Ranjit Singh Flyover, half a kilometer away from the grounds. The yoga guru has been on a hunger strike against corruption and black money for five days.

In Bihar, Sharad Yadav of the ruling Janata Dal (United) was arrested along with hundreds of others for trying to enforce the Bharat Bandh called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies to protest against last week's increase in petrol prices.

NDA Convener and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national president Sharad Yadav and BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain were among 800 activists taken into custody while enforcing the NDA sponsored "Bharat bandh" in Bihar to protest the petrol price hike.

The Opposition led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left parties will observe a nationwide bandh today in protest against the recent hike in petrol price - the steepest ever in recent times. The unprecedented increase - of nearly Rs 7.50 including taxes - met with major political uproar and public anger.

A united Opposition candidate for the presidential elections will be the beginning of unity among the non-BJP parties to take on the BJP, senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, seen as one of the probable Opposition choices, said today. Having met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week as part of efforts to put up a joint Opposition candidate for the hig...

Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav today said JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been arrested on sedition charges, is "innocent" and demanded his immediate release.

Union Railway Minister Pawan Bansal's nephew, V Singla was yesterday arrested along with a Member of the Railway Board in connection with alleged bribery of Rs.90 lakh for fixing a top level position in the government. Sources say, Mr Bansal who met the Prime Minister this afternoon has offered to resign.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters, who began a march towards Parliament from their camp at Ramlila Maidan at about 1 this afternoon, have been stopped at the Ranjit Singh Flyover, half a kilometer away from the grounds. The yoga guru has been on a hunger strike against corruption and black money for five days.

In Bihar, Sharad Yadav of the ruling Janata Dal (United) was arrested along with hundreds of others for trying to enforce the Bharat Bandh called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies to protest against last week's increase in petrol prices.

NDA Convener and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national president Sharad Yadav and BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain were among 800 activists taken into custody while enforcing the NDA sponsored "Bharat bandh" in Bihar to protest the petrol price hike.

The Opposition led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left parties will observe a nationwide bandh today in protest against the recent hike in petrol price - the steepest ever in recent times. The unprecedented increase - of nearly Rs 7.50 including taxes - met with major political uproar and public anger.