LUCKNOW: BJP's general secretary and prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah triggered a fresh row when he reportedly delivered a speech calling for 'revenge' in a village near riot-hit Muzaffarnagar. Describing Amit Shah's statements and speeches as provocative, the Cong

NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday slammed BJP's defence of Amit Shah's "revenge" remark as "justification of communalism", putting the provocative remark alongside revelations that Babri masjid demolition was a planned conspiracy to accuse the rival of peddling a communal agenda. "This is flagrant an

KOCHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the Congress alone could counter the "divisive ideology" of BJP and accused the party of unleashing a misleading propaganda that UPA government had not acted tough to contain corruption and the country's development suffered in the last 10 years.

LUCKNOW: Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari's open support to the Congress for the Lok Sabha election has drawn sharp criticism from the political parties and Muslim groups in Uttar Pradesh. While Shia cleric Kalbe Jawwad on Saturday asserted that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slug fest

NEW DELHI: Syed Yahya Bukhari, the younger brother of Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari, on Saturday opposed the latter's decision to support Congress and accused the party of "backstabbing" Muslims. "Whatever happened under Narendra Modi in Gujarat 10-12 years ago against Muslims is k

CHENNAI: The Election Commission has prohibited the publication, broadcast and telecast of the results of exit polls between April 7 and May 12 in Tamil Nadu, where the election process will be in vogue during this period. In a notification, the EC also barred the opinion polls or poll survey dur

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will become the next Prime Minister of India but cannot be compared to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior BJP leader LK Advani said on Saturday. "Modi will become the PM of the country ... I would not compare him (Modi) to Vajpayee

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi raked up the issue of meat export for the third day running on Thursday, accusing the Congress of promoting slaughterhouses in the country. The Congress retorted that Mr. Modi was indulging in doublespeak as Gujarat, too, expo

Mumbai:  Mumbai's bus nightmare continues for a second day despite a High Court order that a strike by drivers and conductors of public buses is illegal and they must return to work immediately. The bus unions say they will appeal against the High Court order. Almost 26,000 drivers and conduct

For many Indians, their country’s most exciting politician is neither the firebrand Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi nor the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty scion Rahul Gandhi, but Arvind Kejriwal, a mustachioed, bespectacled former tax inspector whom most people had barely heard of just three years ago. I

Finance Minister P Chidambaram today attacked the opposition BJP, deriding as "puerile" a list of questions posed on the weekend to him by its Yashwant Sinha, and describing the party's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, as an exponent of "crony capitalism." The BJP has retorted, "The Co

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of doing divisive politics and said such a party could not bring development. "I don't think that the party which indulges in politics that divides the country can bring development to the country," Singh told an electio

India and 10 other Asian countries were formally declared polio-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday. Apart from India, the other countries which were given polio-free certificates were Bangladesh, Bhutan, North Korea, Indonesia, the  Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Varanasi: Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced his candidature for the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat and challenged Narendra Modi to a debate on various issues, including development in Gujarat. The announcement came at the end of a day that Kejriwal began with a dip in the Ganga, and which saw him bei

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court today said the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh had failed to protect the fundamental rights of people in Muzaffarnagar, where nearly 60 people were killed in riots last year. The court also blamed the state government for negligence, but said there was no

The panel said the government neither properly assessed development deficit in these districts, nor made adequate financial resources available. The Congress-led UPA created a multi-sectoral development programme for 90 Minority Concentrated Districts (MCD) in the country but a review panel scrut

India accounts for the highest number of deaths in road accidents, according to the World Health Organisation. Most fatalities are due to neurological or spinal failure. Stating that head injuries have become a local hazard with global significance, BGS Hospitals chief neurosurgeon Dr N K Venk

MUMBAI: The issue of farmers' suicide seems to have resurfaced with a vengeance in Maharashtra following the recent bout of unseasonal showers and hailstorms in the state. While sources working closely with the government have said that around 18 farmers have killed themselves between February 22 an