BJP Divide Deepens
Sinha quits party posts
New Delhi, June 13
BJP vice president Yashwant Sinha joined here today the ever increasing number of of its critics, shooting off a five-page letter to party president Rajnath Singh, resigning from all party posts and asking all office-bearers to own responsibility for its recent defeat and follow suit.

‘Gag order’ flies in Rajnath’s face
New Delhi, June 13
Rajnath Singh, BJP president, on Saturday tried without much success to put a lid on dissenting cacophonic voices in his party by threatening disciplinary action against those “sharing with the media any views or inputs outside the party forums.”

Karnataka In Charge
Shifting Sinha was right: BJP loyalists
Bangalore, June 13
Arun Jaitley, whose rise in the BJP is said to be one of the reasons for senior leader Yashwant Sinha’s grouse against the party, overshadowed the former External Affairs Minister in Karnataka for the first time.

Swine Flu
Tally touches 17; monsoon may spell more trouble
Chennai/New Delhi, June 13
The number of Swine flu cases across the country climbed upto 17 today as the Union Health Ministry warned of a spurt in number of cases after monsoon. “They say that the H1N1 group of viruses proliferate more when the weather is slightly cooler,” Health Secretary Naresh Dayal said.

Landslide win for Ahmedinejad
Tehran, June 13
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday told all Iranians to respect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in the presidential election that his closest challenger described as a "dangerous charade".

Muslim Quota
LJP attacks Khursheed
New Delhi, June 13
Even as Union Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed continued insisting that the constitution did not provide for giving reservation to Muslims, the Lok Jan Shakti Party attacked him by saying that he had dashed hopes of 20 crore people belonging to the minority communities.

Sania belongs to BPL family!
Hyderabad, June 13
Tennis star Sania Mirza may be a millionaire but her face appears on a ration card belonging to a below poverty line (BPL) family in Andhra Pradesh. The white ration card, which makes a family eligible to get rice at a highly-subsidised price of Rs 2-a-kg and social security benefits health insurance and a permanent housing, has been issued to one Laxmi of Vizianagaram district with a photograph of Sania.