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Chennai, Mar 20: In a bid to placate a sulking L K Advani, BJP President Rajnath Singh today said that it has been left to him to choose which constituency he wants to contest from, either Gandhinagar in Gujarat or Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha elections. "It is the choice of Advaniji to choose from where he wants to contest," he told a press conference here when asked about reports

Five men were today held guilty of gangrape of two women in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound here last year by a sessions court here.The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment tomorrow. A total of seven persons, including two minors, were arrested in both the cases in which three of them are common.The principal sessions court judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi convicted Vijay Jadhav, 19

New Delhi, Mar 20: Narendra Modi today met senior BJP leader LK Advani, who is sulking over being fielded from Gandhinagar in Lok Sabha elections as he wanted to shift to Bhopal. Modi went to his residence and was there for about half-an-hour apparently to persuade him to contest from Gandhinagar, which he has represented for five times in Lok Sabha. The BJP's parliamentary board and the central

New Delhi, Mar 19: With Russia facing sanctions from the US and some other countries after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, India today made it clear that it will not support any "unilateral measures" against Russian government. "India has never supported unilateral sanctions against any country e.g Iraq or Iran. Therefore, we will also not support any unilateral measures by a country or a group of

New Delhi, Mar 19: Amid the unease in his ties with Narendra Modi, BJP veteran L K Advani has expressed desire to contest from Bhopal, shifting from Gandhinagar in Gujarat which has represented five times in the Lok Sabha. Advani is learnt to have informed party chief Rajnath Singh about his preference for Bhopal, sources said. The 86-year-old leader has argued that since most of the senior party

New Delhi, Mar 19: Sharpening his attack on Narendra Modi, Khurshid called BJP's prime ministerial candidate a nursery student, in connection with the post-Godhra riots. "Modi's claim of getting a clean chit in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots is like a nursery student with good marks who thinks he is a doctor and claims to have a PhD," Khurshid said. Last month, the external affairs

New Delhi, Mar 16: Union Minister Manish Tewari, who has been hospitalised due to a heart ailment, is unlikely to contest the Lok Sabha polls, sources said on Sunday. The Information and Broadcasting Minister, who represents Ludhiana constituency in Lok Sabha, may not be in a position to fight elections and is learnt to have apprised the party leadership of his health condition. The 48-year-old

Bangalore, Mar 18: Congress today dismissed the talk about backing Arvind Kejriwal as a combined candidate against BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi from Varanasi, saying it would make its own choice and decision. "I must admire your power of imagination. Very fertile and febrile. I am sorry to disappoint you that whatever your reliable sources are for this information, certainly I

United Nations, Mar 18: Italy has appealed to the United Nations to help free its two marines who are being tried in India for killing two Indian fishermen in 2012. "Italy is willing to try the marines at home, but in the meantime we ask for their freedom," said interior minister Angelino Alfano was quoted as saying by ANSA news agency. Alfano's remarks came ahead of his meeting with UN secretary

Kolkata, Mar 18: After the Anna Hazare fiasco, a Muslim cleric who is close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has now dropped a bomb. Imam Barkati, the Shahi Imam of the Tipu Sultan mosque in Kolkata, says he approves of the strong words Rahul Gandhi uses against Narendra Modi and the BJP and wants Mamata Banerjee to make sharper attacks on them too. The Imam, who had said at a