West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said the women's quota in the elected seats of panchayat and municipal committees will be raised to 50 percent.

Sports Minister M.S. Gill and former union ministers Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Ashwini Kumar were among the five candidates elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab Friday.

A one-day study tour to London was converted to a 10-day jaunt to European countries in 2006 by some Meghalaya legislators who produced "fake and inflated" bills for the trip that eventually cost the government Rs.1.67 crore, a report said Friday.

Myanmar's main opposition party decided Friday to sue the military-run government for issuing unfair election laws, opposition sources said.

Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu and AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa Friday termed the state budget for 2010-11 "inflationary".

Goa Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik Friday urged Home Minister P. Chidambaram to ban the Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha, whose members have been accused of carrying out low intensity explosions.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday criticised the nomination of former union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar to the Rajya Sabha, saying he was an active Congressman.

Media baron Jayanta Baruah, the opposition combine's candidate for next week's Rajya Sabha election, has been accused of concealing in his affidavit information relating to his conviction in a criminal case. Baruah has dismissed the allegation.

The Supreme Court Friday ordered the resumption of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha's trial in a 14-year-old corruption case.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday asked  party leaders to raise any complaints about his choice of a new team with him and not with the media.