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Bangalore, Jun 10: AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi has stuck to his stand of giving opportunities to young leaders and bid goodbye to old-timers in elections. The party has chosen M?V?Rajeev Gowda over one of its oldest leaders and former union minister S?M?Krishna as its candidate for the Raj­ya Sabha elections from the State. Gowda, 50, teaches economics at Indian Institute of Management

New Delhi, June 9: A Pakistani hardliner has held Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his new security team responsible for massive terror attack on Karachi Airport, which left around 30 people dead. Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the chief of banned outfit Jama'at-ud-Da'wah turning to micro-blogging site Twitter claimed, "#KarachiAirport is an attack on Pakistan. Modi's new security team is behind

Chennai, Jun 9: Adopting a conciliatory tone, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to find a "permanent solution" to the problem of Tamil Nadu fishermen being detained by the Sri Lankan navy for crossing the international maritime boundary. Her letter, which did not have the aggressive tone that marked most of her communications with Manmohan Singh

Vijayawada, Jun 8: Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of new Andhra Pradesh at a function at Nagarjuna Nagar, 18 kms from here today. Governor E S L Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Chandrababu at 7:27 PM, the auspicious "muhurtam" set for the occasion. Several Union ministers, Chief Ministers of various states and

New Delhi, Jun 8: Innovative methods like transfer of funds through the RTGS banking system and concealment of currency wads inside car bonnets were detected by Election Commission (EC) as it took steps to curb the use of black money during the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls. The poll panel's election expenditure monitoring wing, under its Director General (Expenditure) PK Dash, seized total cash

Greater Noida, Jun 8: Four persons were on Sunday detained for questioning in connection with the murder of BJP leader and Dadri Nagar Panchayat Chairman Geeta Pandit’s husband Vijay Pandit in Dadri area here even as police clamped prohibitory orders in Gautam Budh Nagar district. Pandit was shot dead by four assailants last night following which his supporters torched 16 vehicles near Dadri

Greater Noida, Jun 8: BJP leader and Dadri Nagar Panchayat Chairman Geeta Pandit's husband Vijay Pandit(37) was shot dead allegedly by four unidentified persons in Dadri area on Saturday night, after which a mob set ablaze 16 vehicles near a police station in protest. The assailants came on two motorcycles and held the pistol at Pandit's temple and mouth and shot him dead when he was returning

New Delhi, Jun 7: In remarks that could spell controversy for Congress, AICC secretary Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday said "even Narendra Modi would have badly lost in the Lok Sabha elections had he contested on a Congress ticket." Nirupam, who lost from the Mumbai North constituency, told reporters that despite several decisions taken by it for the welfare of the people, a severe anti-incumbency wave

New Delhi, Jun 7: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has spoken his silence on the reports of rifts with second-in-command Yogendra Yadav. On Saturday, the former Delhi Chief Minister tweeted, "Yog yadav is a v dear friend and a v valued colleague. Had long discussion with him." "Yog yadav has raised some imp issues. All of us will work on it," he added. Clearing air about the former party

Mumbai, Jun 7: The late BJP leader Gopinath Munde had struggled within the party and even wanted to leave it, BJP MLC Pandurang Phundkar on Friday claimed in the Legislative Council here. Munde faced struggles at every step. He was (once) about to leave BJP. I opposed it. He faced humiliation many times but dedicated his life to the party," Phundkar said. "Congress had offered him two ministerial