India

Chennai, Mar 29: Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan has promised drinking water to all houses, a corruption-free government and generation of jobs, if his party is voted to power in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections and assembly bypolls in Tamil Nadu. On a road show atop a minibus with his South Chennai candidate Rangarajan by his side, Hassan said, "He (Rangarajan) will speak what he

Pathanamthitta, Mar 29: Lok Sabha candidate of BJP in Kozhikode, Prakash Babu, has been remanded to judicial custody for 14 days in connection with a case during Sabarimala agitation. The Pathanamthitta first class judicial magistrate court has ordered the judicial remand on Thursday, as Prakash Babu is accused of attacking a middle-aged woman during the Sabarimala agitation. The agitation was

Mumbai, Mar 29: The Congress on Friday fielded actress Urmila Matondkar from Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency two days after she joined the party. Matondkar had joined the Congress after meeting Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday and had later said that she was "here to stay". "The Congress central election committee has approved the candidature of Urmila Matondkar as party candidate to contest the

Guwahati, Mar 29: The opposition's anti-BJP 'grand alliance' failed to take the desired shape as Congress president Rahul Gandhi chose not to "override" the sentiments of state leaders who did not favour the move, party veteran and thrice Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said. Gogoi, a six-term former MP and union minister, also rubbished the BJP's allegation of the Congress being a "dynastic"

Kolkata, Mar 29: The Shiv Sena, a constituent of the BJP-led NDA, Thursday announced that it would contest 15Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal and claimed that the ruling party is now an extended part of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The Shiv Sena is contesting Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal for the first time. "Today we announced candidates for 11 seats. Within a few days we will declare

New Delhi, Mar 28: After successfully conducting an A-SAT or anti-satellite missile test on Tuesday, the Chairman of the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) revealed in an interview with ANI that the project to develop this rare missile capability was green-lit two years ago. “The NSA (Ajit Doval) whom we report to on strategic matters gave the direction to go ahead with the test

Lucknow, Mar 28: A sitting BJP MP in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday resigned from the party and joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) after he was denied renomination for the upcoming polls. In an apparent display of resentment, Anshul Verma — the lawmaker from Hardoi Lok Sabha seat — handed over his resignation letter to the ‘chowkidar’ at the BJP headquarters here, to register his protest against the

Kozhikode, Mar 28: The delay and certainty in the official announcement by the party high command on the recently-spread news of the All India Congress Committee president Rahul Gandhi's candidature in Wayanad Lok Sabha Constituency in Kerala has dampened the spirit of the election campaigning in the constituency. Though the Congress leader K Muraleedharan had been actively campaigning in Vatakara

Patna, Mar 28: Noted Right to Food activist Jean Dreze and two others were detained on March 28 by police in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district for organising a meeting without permission from district authorities. They were released later in the day after furnishing personal bonds. Jean Dreze, his friend and social activist Vivek Kumar and another person were detained at Bishunpur police station in

Hyderabad, Mar 28: Claiming there is no Modi wave in this Lok Sabha polls like in 2014, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Thursday said a 'non-BJP, non-Congress' front is likely to form the government at the Centre with a regional leader emerging as a prime minister. Owaisi, a three-time MP from the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency, also said the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be an "open