Patna: Millions of people across Bihar celebrated Diwali with religious fervour Sunday, barely a week after serial blasts in Patna killed seven people, including a suspected bomber, and injured nearly 100 others. There was no apparent impact of the blasts in Patna as people were busy enjoying the various aspects of the festival, Arun Singh […]

Ahmedabad:  Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the construction of what he bills as the world’s biggest statue – a 182-metre iron and bronze structure being built at a cost of Rs. 2074 crore to honour India’s “iron man” Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 138th birth anniversary. The statue is to be built on an island […]

New Delhi : Led by the Left, at least 14 non-Congress secular parties came together at a joint convention on Wednesday and made a fresh bid to forge a front to fight the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party, ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Though most of the leaders, except Bihar Chief Minister Nitish […]

Bangalore : Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the 2014 Lok Sabha elections would witness a “straight fight between the Congress and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which remote controls the Bharatiya Janata Party.” Addressing presspersons at the Congress office in the city, Mr. Ramesh alleged that communal polarisation was the […]

New Delhi : Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will campaign only for a day in the national capital. Modi perhaps fears his crowd puller tag may come under a cloud in case the party fares poorly in the Assembly polls. In Karnataka, too, Modi addressed political rallies […]

Bangalore : Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will launch his campaign ahead of the 2013 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka on November 16 in Bangalore. Modi will address nine rallies in the State between November 16 and January 16. The dates and venue for non-Bangalore rallies are yet to be decided, said […]

Bangalore : Gali Janardhana Reddy, who rode to riches on booming iron ore exports in the last decade and virtually lorded over the BJP in Karnataka for over five years, completes two years behind bars Sep 5 on charges of illegal mining. The former Karnataka minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party has spent most of […]

New Delhi : Senior leader LK Advani has resigned from all posts in the Bharatiya Janata Party. This comes a day after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was appointed as the BJP’s campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Advani has sent a letter to BJP President Rajnath Singh. In his letter, Advani […]

New Delhi : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters are protesting outside senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani’s residence in the national capital, reports said on Saturday. The protesters, who gathered outside Advani’s residence, were reportedly shouting slogans like, “Jan Jan Ki Yahi Pukaar, Narendra Modi Agli Baar”. There were reports that the senior […]

Bangalore : Polling began on Sunday morning for the Assembly polls in Karnataka in which the Congress has pulled out all the stops to return to power in a complex battle after more than an eight-year-long gap. As many as 1.35 lakh police personnel – 60,000 from the state, 20,000 home guards and rest from […]