Suspected Maoist rebels set off two bombs in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing 13 people, most of them paramilitary soldiers and officials charged with holding elections in the region. The attacks, half an hour apart, were the most serious since voting to elect a new central government began last

Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India and he will assume his charge on April 27. “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, Judge of

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee may not be in active politics nowadays, but the Congress has brought the BJP's former 'poster boy' to limelight to target the opposition party's PM candidate Narendra Modi. Reminding the BJP of its 'Rajdharma', a post on the Congress website c

A controversial Congressional resolution, which among other things asks the American administration to maintain its policy of not issuing visa to BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, now has more than 50 co-sponsors. Rush Holt from New Jersey and Barbara Lee from California are the two

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the Congress was against Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister as he was responsible for the massacre of over 2,000 people following the Godhra train burning incident. Campaigning for party candidate Lakshmi Hebbalkar at Savadatti in Belgaum Lok Sab

A 97-year-old man, who is among India's oldest voters, says he is getting ready to cast his ballot for a 16th time in a general election. Shyam Saran Negi is a retired teacher in northern Himachal Pradesh state. He has voted in every single election since 1951-52 - when India held its first ge

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