India

New Delhi, Sep 13: The BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday announced that Gujarat Chief Minister and campaign committee chief Narendra Modi would be the prime ministerial candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The meeting was attended by the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, senior BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, Murli

Bishkek, Sep 13: Pakistan has informed India that it has appointed a new prosecutor to probe the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and will send a Judicial Commission to the country on September 23 to cross-examine witnesses in the case, meeting India's demand for progress in the investigations. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said he was told about Pakistan's decision during an informal

New Delhi, Sept 13: A judge will announce today whether four men should hang for fatally raping a young woman on a bus last December, in one of the biggest tests in years of India's paradoxical attitude towards the death penalty. Indian judges hand down on average 130 death sentences every year, but India has executed just three people in the past 17 years. Despite its apparent reluctance to carry

New Delhi, Sep 13: The fate of four convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case will be known on Friday with a Delhi court set to pronounce the much-awaited order on whether their offence falls in the “rarest of rare” category warranting death sentence. While the victim’s family demands nothing less than capital punishment, the convicts -- Mukesh (26), Akshay Thakur (28), Pawan Gupta (19)

London, Sep 13: The exodus from Bangladeshis into India has for the first time been termed by the United Nations as "the single largest bilateral stock of international migrants" in the eastern hemisphere and also in the developing world. Data revealed on Thursday by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) shows that in 2013, India was home to 3.2 million Bangladeshi residents

New Delhi, Sep 12: President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday approved Congress president Sonia Gandhi's pet food security bill, making it a law. "The National Food Security Bill, 2013 has received the assent of the President of India," said a statement from the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Lok Sabha passed the bill Aug 26 while the Rajya Sabha cleared it Sep 2. The bill was introduced in parliament in

Agra, Sep 12: Under fire over communal violence in the party-ruled Uttar Pradesh, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today rejected any parallel with 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat and promised "justice" for victims and "strict action" against the guilty. Congress and RLD have alleged that a Gujarat is being sought to be played out in UP while attacking both SP and BJP over the communal flare-up. "There

Agra, Sep 12: Amidst controversy over absence of SP's Muslim face Mohd Azam Khan from its national executive meet, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today sought to mollify him, saying Khan can never be upset with him. But, earlier in the day, party's National General Secretary Ramgopal Yadav had said that either Khan should have attended the meet or resigned. "Azam Khan can never be upset with me

Agra, Sep 12: Hardening its stand against senior UP Minister Mohammad Azam Khan who skipped the party national executive meeting, Samajwadi Party today said either he should have attended the meet or resigned. SP national general secretary Ramgopal Yadav said the absence of Khan, the Muslim face of the Samajwadi Party, was not felt at the meeting yesterday. "It is a national executive meeting and

New Delhi, Sep 12: BJP stalwart L K Advani has dug in his heels. He refused to drop his opposition to Narendra Modi as the party's prime ministerial nominee, leaving party president Rajnath Singh with little choice but to push on regardless of the veteran's objections. This will undoubtedly cast a shadow of controversy over Modi's anointment and show up BJP as a divided house. The BJP president on