Polling officials said this was the highest turnout in the vice-presidential election

Eighteen parties have decided to field Gopalkrishna Gandhi as their vice presidential candidate, said Sonia Gandhi, adding that he has agreed to be nominated for the coveted position.

The former administrator, diplomat and Governor, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, has admitted to a newspaper that he has been approached in this regard.

Thus spake the former West Bengal governor, who stunned his hosts, the CBI, and dubbed Reliance as "a parallel State".

The audience astonished me no less than the play [ The Blue Mug]. I have been used to seeing bespectacled white heads fill the Music Academy's theatre in Chennai... But this evening was different...

'The ardour of Deepavali has been dampened in the whole state by the events in Nandigram,' said the West Bengal governor. Full text of his statement.