India

New Delhi, Apr 18: Polling began Thursday morning for 95 Lok Sabha seats spread across 11 states and the union territory of Puducherry with Tamil Nadu witnessing contest in 38 constituencies. Voting was also underway in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha and in 18 assembly seats in Tamil Nadu. Prominent faces in the fray in the Lok Sabha contest are Union ministers Jitendra Singh, Jual Oram

New Delhi, Apr 18: Jet Airways will temporarily suspend all flights operations from tonight after it failed to secure interim funding of ₹400 crore for maintaining even bare minimum operations, sources said on Wednesday. The airline currently only operated five aircraft with over 25 flights. The development assumes significance as just a day before the airline's lenders said that they remain

Bhopal, Apr 17: The BJP on Wednesday fielded Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, facing trial in the Malegaon blasts case, from the Bhopal parliamentary constituency, where she is set to have a direct contest with Congress heavyweight and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh. Ms. Thakur, who is out on bail, joined the BJP only hours before her name was announced as the Bhopal candidate

New Delhi, Apr 17: Advocate Prashant Bhushan has resigned from the governing bodies of NGOs Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), Common Cause and Swaraj Abhiyan. Bhushan said in a tweet: "People are asking if I have resigned from Common Cause, CPIL and Swaraj Abhiyan. I have resigned from the GBs (governing bodies) of these since the Bar Council was hounding me citing a rule that I can't

Jaipur, Apr 17: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said Ram Nath Kovind was made the president of the country to balance caste equations ahead of the assembly election in Gujarat in 2017. "People even say that Ram Nath Kovind was made president considering Gujarat assembly elections in 2017. I was reading an article. He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) was afraid that he was not

Tasgaon, Apr 17: Kashmir is an integral part of India and it would continue to remain so as long as the BJP exists, party president Amit Shah said here on Wednesday. Shah's remarks came at a poll rally, in response to National Conference leader Omar Abdullah's recent suggestion of having a separate prime minister for Kashmir. "No one can take away Kashmir from us. As long as the BJP exists

Akluj, Apr 17: Putting a new spin on Rahul Gandhi's "why are all Modis thieves" remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Congress president, by making the jibe, had maligned the backward community he hails from. Addressing a poll rally here, Modi also slammed the "dynastic politics" of Sharad Pawar and claimed the NCP chief had "fled" the poll arena from Madha Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Apr 17: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled the business visa of Bangladeshi actor Ferdous Ahmed and issued him a notice to immediately leave India. The Bangladeshi superstar, who has acted in a number of Bengali films in India as well, has been blacklisted from the country. Ferdous Ahmed has already left the country and returned home. This comes after the government was

Alappuzha, Apr 17: While coming down heavily on the RSS and the BJP, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held the Left Front in high regard. Addressing an election rally of the United Democratic Front (UDF) Alappuzha candidate Shanimol Usman at Municipal Stadium here, Mr. Gandhi said he could differentiate between the RSS and the Left Front. ‘Better than RSS’ “We are fighting against the

Srinagar, Apr 17: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said the people have realised "political opportunism" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his "lies and deceit" cannot save the "sinking ship" of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In an election rally in south Kashmir's Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, Azad also alleged that the BJP has not been able to fulfil any of the promises made