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Ahmedabad, Feb 28: A day after BJP's first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls was declared, veteran BJP leader L K Advani today expressed interest to contest elections from his current constituency, Gandhinagar. "The first list of the candidates has been declared yesterday in which my name is not there. I have come here today to Gandhinagar to participate in a vigilance committee meeting

Hyderabad, Feb 28: Andhra Pradesh is coming under President's rule after a long gap of 41 years. The current spell of President's rule, which the Union Cabinet approved today on the recommendation of state Governor E S L Narasimhan, is not due to any constitutional crisis but a political crisis caused by the resignation of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on February 19 protesting the

Raipur, Feb 28: A Station House Officer (SHO) and five police personnel were today killed in a Naxal ambush in Maoist-hit Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place when a police patrol party headed by SHO, Kuwakonda, Vivek Shukla was on way to Shyamgiri Hills for security of an under-construction road near Kuwakonda-Bacheli, a senior police official said. The patrol team

New Delhi, Feb 28: Trustees of retirement fund body EPFO Thursday approved a proposal to provide a monthly pension of minimum Rs 1,000, a decision that will immediately benefit about its 28 lakh pensioners. The Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex decision making body of EPFO also decided to raise the monthly wage ceiling to Rs 15,000 from Rs 6,500 by amending the EPF scheme, 1952, so that

New Delhi, Feb 28: Sahara chief Subrata Roy on Friday surrendered before the Lucknow police on Friday. Roy's legal counsel Ram Jethmalani has confirmed that his client has surrendered before the police. Roy will remain in police custody till March 04. Jethmalani's had earlier made submission that Roy be granted exemption from personal appearance and he will make payment as per the directions

Ahmedabad, Feb 28: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi once again fumbled with historical facts when he said that Bhagat Singh had spent a long time incarcerated on the Andaman islands. In fact, it was Veer Savarkar who was imprisoned in the jail on the Andamans. Bhagat Singh and his friends were lodged in jails around Delhi. After their arrest on April 8, 1929 from the Central Legislative

New Delhi, Feb 28: The Aam Aadmi Party Thursday announced its second list of candidates for Lok Sabha elections, deciding to pit Raj Mohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, against sitting Congress parliamentarian Sandeep Dikshit. In the list of 30 candidates, former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajan Sushant will contest from Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district. Sushant, a parliamentarian

New Delhi, Feb 27: A police team led by Lucknow Superintendent of Police Habibul Hassan reached Sahara Shahar on Thursday evening to enforce the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court. Hassan told a media agency that the order Apex Court’s order would be complied with by March 4. In the meanwhile, Sahara Chief Subrata Roy moved to Supreme Court seeking cancellation of non-bailable

New Delhi, Feb 27: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said he does not appreciate the "impotent" remark made by Union ministerSalman Khurshid against Narendra Modi in the context of the 2002 Gujarat riots. "I do not appreciate this kind of comment...the kind of language," Gandhi said disapproving Khurshid's remark. The Congress leader was speaking to reporters at the AICC

New Delhi, Feb 27: After staying release of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court today restrained the Tamil Nadu government from letting out four more convicts in the case. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam directed the state government to maintain status quo and said it will hear on March 6 the Centre's plea against the state government's decision to