Mumbai, April 3 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets touched a record high of 22,620.65 points for the ninth consecutive day Thursday, surpassing the high of 22,592.10 points it touched Wednesday. Selling pressure was seen in banking, capital goods and oil and gas sectors, while marginal good buying was observed in metal sector. The […]
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party will on Thursday release its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal will launch the manifesto at his Tilak Lane residence here. In its manifesto, the AAP will favour decriminalisation of homosexuality, supporting the Delhi High Court’s 2009 decision on consensual gay sex. The […]
Bhubaneswar, April 3 (IANS) The BJP has fielded the highest number of tainted candidates in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls in Odisha April 10, while three of AAP’s candidates have criminal cases against them, an election watchdog here said Thursday. As many as 98 candidates are in the fray for the 10 Lok […]
Hyderabad, April 3 (IANS) Union textiles minister Kavuri Sambasiva Rao Thursday resigned from the union cabinet to protest bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Rao sent his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, sources close to the minister said. He, however, has not yet taken a decision on whether to quit the Congress. He is reportedly planning to […]
Shweta Sharma It was a hot, humid morning in old Delhi’s ChandniChowk area which was already humming with activity — and awaiting a politically tumultuous day ahead with balloting just a week away. ChandniChowk, the old “silver street” of the Mughal era that leads down from the majestic Red Fort and is now a centre […]
Gujarat is the 7th largest state in India, located in the western part of India with a coastline of 1600 km (longest in India). It is one of the most popular tourist regions in the country, and was visited by 19.8 million tourists in 2010-11. Gujarat offers scenic beauty from Great Rann of Kutch to the beautiful beach of Somnath. Gujarat is the one and […]
Ranchi, April 2 (IANS) A plan by Maoists to blow up police vehicles was Wednesday foiled as security forces recovered a 33 kg landmine from the Saranda jungle in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said. During a search operation, a joint team of police and paramilitary forces recovered the landmine planted on a road near Gundijora […]
Agra, April 2 (IANS) There is no “Modi wave” in the country, only a “gussa (anger) ka wave”, says the Aam Aadmi Party. AAP national spokesman Sanjay Singh said this here while describing the Bharatiya Janata Party as the AAP’s main political foe in the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh. “Our main fight in UP […]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) All the six former ministers of the AAP Delhi government will reach out to voters in Varanasi, where party chief Arvind Kejriwal faces Narendra Modi, and Amethi, where Kumar Vishwas will battle Rahul Gandhi. After the April 10 Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, the entire team of the former cabinet ministers […]
Bangalore, April 2 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader S.M. Krishna Wednesday dubbed the “(Narendra) Modi wave” in Karnataka a cosmetic creation of a desperate BJP. “There is no sign of Modi or BJP wave anywhere in the country, state and city unlike in the past when there were two natural waves in favour of our leaders Indira […]