Govt Formation
Cong may stick to old faithfuls
New Delhi, May 17
As the Congress leadership initiated the process of government formation (possibly on May 22 as in 2004) and portfolio distribution, it came under increasing pressure from the party’s Bihar and Uttar Pradesh units to keep out the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Samajwadi Party.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee during a Congress Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Sunday. — AFP photo

Final Tally

Terror, meltdown to top agenda: PM
New Delhi, May 17
Tackling terrorism and the current economic recession will be the new government’s foremost priorities, declared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday.

Jockeying on for key portfolios
New Delhi, May 17
Although the next UPA government is yet to be formed, jockeying for key ministerial berths has already begun.

BJP, RSS, allies commence Advani baiting
New Delhi, May 17
The day after LK Advani and his party, the BJP, were defeated in the general election, Advani baiting has started within the BJP in the RSS and even by allies in the NDA.

Shoe missile: Good omen?
New Delhi, May 17
Call it coincidence or more than that - all political leaders who were made targets of footwear missiles in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls have tasted victory in the elections.

News Analysis
Elections that satisfied major contestants
Chandigarh, May 17
Elections to 13 Lok Sabha seats from Punjab were unique in more than one ways.

Editorial: North by North-West

25-year-old civil war comes to a bitter end in Sri Lanka
Tigers concede defeat
The statement by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sunday that the group has decided to “silence it’s guns” means an end of the bitter civil war that had ravaged Sri Lanka’s north and east for the past 26 years and left thousands dead.

Prabhakaran dead?