India

New Delhi, Apr 6: The Election Commission is probing the 'vote for revenge' remark of Amit Shah, who is a close aide of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and in charge of party in Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, the Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer has sought reports and CD of the alleged hate speech of Shah. Shah reportedly said in a recent election meeting in

New Delhi, Apr 6: A special money laundering court here has attached assets worth Rs 75 lakh of a conman who cheated film maker Rakesh Roshan in 2011 and several others posing as a senior CBI officer. The court acted on a complaint of the Mumbai office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which registered a money laundering case against Ashwani Kumar Sharma and his wife Meenakshi Mansotra taking

New Delhi, Apr 6: The high-stakes battle in the virtual Presidential-style contest between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi with a few other regional satraps also in the fray in the Lok Sabha elections begins on Monday in six constituencies in two states in the first of the nine-phased polls. Five constituencies in Assam — Tezpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur and Tripura (West) in

Bhandara/Maharashtra, Apr 6: After a gap of nearly 15 years, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar Saturday shared the dais as they jointly campaigned for the UPA candidates here. The uncertainties of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections apparently brought Pawar - who had broken away from the Congress in 1998 protesting Gandhi's Italian origins - closer to her

Gandhinagar, Apr 5: In Gujarat's capital Gandhinagar, veteran BJP leader LK Advani filed his nomination today accompanied by chief minister Narendra Modi. Before filing his nomination, Mr Advani offered rich praise for the Gujarat Chief Minister. The 'Kodak moments' come after 9 months of acrimony between BJP's big two, which was being interpreted as trust deficit. Mr Advani had skipped the BJP's

Washington, Apr 5: With a record 35 percent Indians saying the national economy was getting worse, India's sputtering economy will undoubtedly be a major issue in the country's month-long election starting Monday, according to a US poll. Suggesting that "Indians' economic optimism all but evaporated in 2013", leading US pollster Gallup said Friday "Indians' growing pessimism about their economy is

Ahmedabad, Apr 5: "I had never intended not contesting from Gandhinagar,” senior BJP leader L K Advani said here on Saturday as he arrived for filing his nomination from the Lok Sabha constituency. Mr. Advani, who has been the MP from here for five times, was reacting to questions related to the controversy regarding his desire to contest from Bhopal because of his reported differences with the

New York: A New York City police officer has been detained in India on a weapons charge after authorities there discovered three bullets he accidentally packed in his luggage, police officials said on Friday. Officer Manny Encarnacion was arrested early last month while traveling in New Delhi, where he was visiting his wife. He's been barred from leaving the country until the case is resolved, the

New Delhi, Apr 4: A 19-year-old man twice punched AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal here Friday while pretending to garland him as the latter campaigned for the Lok Sabha election. "Saying he wanted to garland Kejriwal, the attacker got on to an open vehicle and punched him twice," an Aam Aadmi Party leader who witnessed the attack said. The attacker was identified as Abdul Wahid, a resident of Delhi's

New Delhi, Apr 3: AAP today promised an array of initiatives in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls like bringing a strong Jan Lokpal Bill, installing CCTV cameras in court rooms and bringing down the age to contest elections to 21 from 25. Releasing the manifesto, party Chief Arvind Kejriwal said decentralization of power, citizen's charter to ensure time-bound delivery of services and