Senior BJP leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Nitin Gadkari are conspicuous by their absence in the list of leaders who will participate in the party's week-long, nationwide 'jail bharo' agitation against the UPA government on corruption and price rise from May 27.

Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi was allegedly assaulted by CRPF personnel on Friday when he had gone to inquire about the kidnapping and subsequent release of two garden labourers in Assam's Jorhat district.

About 30 activists of the BJP's youth wing protesting the UPA-II government's corruption scandals were detained when they tried to march towards Connaught Place in central Delhi.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers on Sunday protested outside residences of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and local MLAs over the issues of rising prices of power and water in the national capital.

Many Farmers in Coimbatore region on Friday threatened that they would resort to mass suicide if government goes ahead with its plan to increase power tariff. Representatives of various farmers’ associations told a public hearing on tariff revision here that the agriculture sector in Tamil Nadu is already in doldrums due to failure of monsoon and resultant drought.

Rajasthan unit of BJP has called for a state-level bandh on May 18 to protest the CBI chargesheet against Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria in Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-hour visit to Assam to file his nomination paper for his fifth Rajya Sabha term was marred by widespread protests by different organizations.

Pakistani prisoners in high security Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu have gone on 'fast' protesting the death of Sanaullah Ranjay at a hospital in Chandigarh on Thursday.

Scores of BJP's youth wing activists on Sunday clashed with police when they were stopped from marching towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence to demand his resignation and proper probe into scams and corruption allegations against the UPA government.

In yet another incident of brazen abuse of power by UP police, a cop was caught on camera slapping a young girl inside a Police Station in Ghaziabad district.