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Hunkar rally of BJP at Patna has rattled Nitish Kumar in two ways. Firstly, a series of explosions took place during the rally and the Bihar government is facing all round criticism from almost all quarters. He is engaged in a verbal duel with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on the issue of prior warning by the Central Government. Secondly, the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi had made scathing attack on Nitish by calling him a traitor, liar and hypocrite. Nitish has returned the salvo in his own style by dubbing Narendra Modi a liar and a person, who has less knowledge of history.

New Delhi: India has planned to increase the speed of existing railway systems to the range of 160 to 200 km per hour by leveraging rolling stock technologies, apart from considering high speed trains of global standard with speed in the range of 250 to 300 km per hour.

On 15 October, the CBI did something unusual in the coal block allotment scam—if only under the Supreme Court’s goading. It filed a First Information Report against top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary PC Parakh for illegally allotting two coal blocks in Odisha in 2005 to the Aditya Birla group-owned Hindalco Industries to generate electricity.

The Reserve bank of India has delivered another “more of the same” credit policy. It has increased repo rate in the light of inflationary trends, particularly in view of the anticipated impact of pass-through of exchange rate depreciation of the last couple of months and also the prospective corrections in oil prices by the government.

There is some truth in the Congress’s belief that the next general election will not be between it and the BJP, but between the no-longer Grand Old Party and the RSS. After all, it was the Nagpur patriarchs who ‘persuaded’ the BJP leaders to shelve their reservations about Narendra Modi and nominate him as the prime ministerial candidate.

Once again, the diminishing credibility of the police force in West Bengal has come to the fore, following the arrest of an important Maoist leader by Bihar police from Kolkata.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Lok Sabha elections only a few months away, the Kerala BJP seems to be riding high on confidence. Is the party’s optimism justified? A closer look at the State BJP politics is in order to find an answer.

Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan will unfold RBI’s Second Quarter Review and Monetary Policy on October 29, in a setting - both global and domestic - which has, even if momentarily, turned positive for furthering currency stabilisation and economic revival in the second half of fiscal 2014. He would build on this improving environment without letting guard on the less comforting inflationary pressures.

Systematic stifling of young leaders in the Congress party has, in the course of time, made the party leaderless at the district and state levels. The leadership at the centre grew stronger but at the state and lower levels, it became rudderless. The Congress system, particularly from the time of Indira Gandhi onwards, discouraged strong state leaders from emerging and replacing the old guards. The result was that there is now a vacuum at the state level and it is difficult to find a leader of stature to lead the party in elections.

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has launched its 3G Cellular Network named AFCEL (Air Force Cellular) on Friday to link warriors across the country.