India

Mumbai, Apr 3: Election Commission will take cognisance if it receives a complaint against Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said on Thursday. “We generally, in such matters (Sonia’s meeting with Shahi Imam), will take cognisance on the receipt of complaint. We should be awaiting that,” he told reporters here

Vadodara, Apr 3: City police on Thursday detained Congress candidate against Narendra Modi, Madhusudan Mistry, and other party workers when they tried to paste his posters on his rival's banners at advertisement kiosks in Dandiya Bazaar area. "Mistry and other Congress workers have been detained after they tried to paste his posters on an advertisement kiosk installed on electricity poll on road

Amethi (UP), Apr 3: The local administration has cancelled application of Congress vice-president and local MP Rahul Gandhi for issuance of domicile certificate. "The application should have been made by Gandhi himself with his signature, which was not there. The application was made by one Rajendra Singh with is against law," district magistrate, Jagatraj Tripathi said when asked about

Pilibhit (UP), Apr 3: As Varun Gandhi courted controversy by ''praising'' estranged cousin Rahul Gandhi, his mother and BJP leader Maneka Gandhi today said her son's remark on Amethi's development was ''not correct'' and advised him to use his mind instead of heart while making statements. The BJP MP also said that development work has not taken place in Amethi in the last 45 years. Defending her

Gonda (UP), Apr 3: Senior Congress leader and Union minister Beni Prasad Verma dubbed Narendra Modi as the "biggest goon" of RSS and BJP president Rajnath Singh as his "slave", triggering strong reaction from the opposition party. Addressing an election meeting in Sadullanagar township Tuesday night, Verma said Modi is the "biggest goonda" (goon) of RSS as the language being used by him in

Muzaffarnagar, April 3: The Lok Sabha election has thrown up a new set of challenges for Muslim voters in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar. After facing the brunt of the violence, they are confused and divided over their choice. For Liaquat Ali and Meharban Raza, both Khatauli-based social workers, communal harmony tops the list. “We have lived with Hindus as brothers, the harmony we lost during the

New Delhi, Apr 3: In fresh trouble for Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who is facing an arrest warrant, the Supreme Court has directed him to appear before a Ghaziabad court in a 1.4 million dollar cheating case filed against him. A bench of justices C K Prasad and P C Ghose, however, directed that the arrest warrant issued against 72-year-old Lee for his non-appearance in the case

New Delhi, April 2: Expelled leader Jaswant Singh slammed the BJP for becoming a party of "individual leaders" and said he was "not sure if the BJP is fit to govern" India since "there was no collective leadership." "There is no longer any collective leadership... I don't know if the BJP can be called fit to govern the country today," Singh, a former foreign, defence and finance minister at

Lucknow, Apr 2: Seeking to woo Muslims as well as upper castes, Samajwadi Party today promised quota in police and other government jobs for minority community, release of "innocent" youths jailed on terror charges and constitution of an Upper Caste Commission in its manifesto brimming with sops. Vowing to enact tough law against communal violence, the SP led by Mulayam Singh Yadav said it would

New Delhi, April 2: The Delhi High Court Wednesday upheld the life imprisonment awarded to three convicts in Nitish Katara murder case while terming it a "honour killing". A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice J.R. Midha dismissed the appeals of the three convicts against a trial court verdict of May 2008 which awarded them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in