The voter turnout for the ongoing elections for the 16th Lok Sabha could be the best ever, if the polling trend witnessed during the seven phases of polling continues for the remaining two phases. According to data provided by the Election Commission, the aggregate voter turnout for the 438 const

Even as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that the monsoon will be “below normal” this year, researchers at Stanford University, California, have concluded that monsoon in India is becoming more extreme, with significant increase in both wet and dry spells. They have said that

With Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra over, the Shiv Sena has taken potshots at the Gujarati community, traditionally seen to be close to its ally, the BJP, and questioned why Gujarati businessmen who support Narendra Modi don’t celebrate Maharashtra Day. In a stinging editorial in its mouthpie

BILASPUR (Himachal Pradesh): BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi represents the ideology of the RSS, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday. Referring to MS Golwalkar, the second "Sarsanghchalak" (Supreme Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Gandhi said Golw

NEW DELHI: Puri Shankaracharya Swami Adhokshjanand Devtirath on Thursday said that he would go to Varanasi to ask religious leaders to oppose Narendra Modi, whom he held responsible for the 2002 riots in Gujarat.  Speaking to reporters here, the Shankaracharya claimed that Modi was trying to mislea

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI: An FIR was lodged against Narendra Modi for violation of the model code of conduct after he displayed a lotus, the BJP's election symbol, before TV cameras and addressed a press conference on the premises of the school where he cast his vote on Wednesday. He also snapped a selfi

CHENNAI: One passenger died and nine others were injured in a bomb blast at an express train stationed at the Chennai Central station on Thursday. The blast took place at around 7.30am on the Guwahati-Bangalore Express. Police said it was a terror attack while it was the train was at platform

New Delhi: Voting is underway in 89 constituencies across seven states and two union territories in the seventh round of the nine phase Lok Sabha elections today. (Round 7 of polls: top 10 facts) While most states witnessed a moderate voter turnout till 12 noon, West Bengal, where 38.3 per cent o

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, unfurled new vitriolic language against Narendra Modi today, stating, "If he becomes PM, the country will be set on fire." Since Sunday, Ms Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress have hurled coarse language at the BJP's prime ministerial candid

NEW DELHI: Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday slammed BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi calling his behaviour 'childish'. "Your aim is to become the Prime Minister of the country, so why do you indulge in childish attacks?" Priyanka said on Tuesday in Amethi referring to Modi's 'shahjada' a

Kolkata: A day after her party labelled Narendra Modi "the butcher of Gujarat,"Mamata Banerjee made a substantial contribution to the onslaught, describing the BJP's prime ministerial candidate as  an "architect of riots" whose "gyan (insight) on development" is not needed in her state. "If he (Modi

AHMEDABAD: Union minister Kapil Sibal raked up alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan on Monday to hit out at Narendra Modi saying the BJP's PM nominee and Amit Shah were being "shielded" despite existence of "clinching" evidence to arrest them. "I want to ask who is shielding Modi and Shah when,

ALIGARH April 25: A Farewell function was organized at the Department of Anesthesiology, J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University to felicitate Professor M Masood Hussain Siddiqui, who is retiring on 30th April. Addressing on the occasion, Professor Tariq Mansoor, Principal and CMS, said th

India is likely to experience below-average monsoon rainfall in 2014, if the El Nino weather pattern affects the four-month-long rainy season, the government's weather office said on Thursday. The monsoon is vital for India as half of its farmland lacks irrigation. To cut dependence on rains, Ind

NEW DELHI: With 196 seats still to poll, Congress is far from conceding the election, but is keenly considering post-poll "stop Modi" scenarios where the party will not make its leadership of a coalition a non-negotiable condition. Congress sees its "complete flexibility" about either propping up

NEW DELHI: Midway through the Lok Sabha polls, Congress has launched an aggressive minority outreach, committing itself to "finding a way forward" on quotas for backward Muslims and Scheduled Caste status to all dalit minorities. In its additional manifesto on "empowerment of minorities", Congres

Nearly 40 per cent of the electorate cast their vote today in the first seven hours of polling in 117 constituencies in 11 states and Union Territory of Puducherry in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, amid stray incidents of violence which left a policeman dead in Assam and 13 others injured i

Mumbai: In an email to students, the principal of the St Xavier's college in Mumbai criticised Narendra Modi's "Gujarat model" of governance and advised - "choose well!" "...all the Human Development Index indicators and the cultural polarization of the population show that Gujarat has had a terr