India

Patna, Feb 8: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has recommended the dissolution of the Assembly to pre-empt his mentor-turned-rival and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar’s attempts to replace him. On Saturday, Mr. Kumar, who was elected leader of the JD(U) legislature party, is set to stake claim to form a new government and urged the Governor to reject Mr. Manjhi’s recommendation

New Delhi, Feb 8: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not given hope of scraping through to majority in the 70-member Delhi Assembly, despite exit poll projections clearly favouring the AAP after voting ended on Saturday. Officially, the BJP was “confident that it will win with clear majority on February 10, when the results will be declared, and form government,” Union minister Ananth Kumar told

New Delhi, Feb 7: AAP today filed a complaint against BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi with the Election Commission over an alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct in her constituency, Krishna Nagar. In its letter to the poll watchdog, AAP accused Bedi of holding a road show and a bike rally this morning with hundreds of workers carrying "campaign material" and "talking to

New Delhi, Feb 7: Kiran Bedi, BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, cast her vote Saturday at a polling booth here and asked people to vote for "clean, literate and safe Delhi". "Today is a historic day for Delhiites. It's the day for them to decide what type of Delhi they want," Bedi said after casting her vote in Uday Park in South Delhi. She urged Delhiites to vote for "clean, literate

New Delhi, Feb 7: As Delhi votes for a new government, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today exuded confidence of getting a clear mandate for his party and said truth will triumph. "I am confident that AAP will win the elections and form government in Delhi," he told reporters after casting his vote at B K Dutt colony. Kejriwal is seeking re-election from the prestigious New Delhi constituency where he

New Delhi, Feb 7: Polling began this morning for the 70-member Delhi Assembly polls in which AAP and BJP appeared to be the main contenders. The voting began at 8 AM at over 12,000 polling stations, of which 714 have been identified as "critical" and 191 "highly critical". A total of over 1.33 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise. A total of 673 candidates are in the fray in the

New Delhi, Feb 7: A year after the Arvind Kejirwal-led government hastened the flashpoint on Jan Lokpal Bill and abandoned the people's verdict, Delhi votes again on Saturday in a keenly watched contest. Voters will decide whether to give Delhi a decisive mandate in favour of the AAP or the BJP, or keep it a hung assembly even after a year of President's Rule. Political parties are desperate for a

New Delhi, Feb 6: Reacting cautiously to US President Barack Obama's concern about religious "intolerance" in India, government today said any "aberrations" do not alter India's history of tolerance. Two senior Union ministers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Home Minister Rajnath Singh, underlined that India was a multi-religious and multi-cultural country where communities including Muslim

New Delhi, Feb 6: The Aad Aadmi Party (AAP) Friday rejected the appeal of Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, to Muslims to vote for the AAP in Saturday's assembly polls in Delhi. "The AAP seems to be in a position to form the government, and we must give them strength," Bukhari of the 17th century Jama Masjid in Old Delhi said earlier in the day. The AAP quickly rejected his

New Delhi, Feb 6: The Delhi high court on Friday turned down the proesecution's plea for death sentence to Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav's son Vikas Yadav and two others convicted in the Nitish Katara murder case. The court gave an enhanced 25 years life imprisonment to both Vikas and his cousin Vishal Yadav for abducting and killing Katara. Both Vikas and Vishal were also fined Rs 50 lakh