India

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

New Delhi, Feb 6: The Aam Aadmi Party today took on BJP for its front page advertisement in various newspapers listing the achievements of the Narendra Modi government and asking people to vote for it in the Assembly polls tomorrow, saying it is violation of the Model Code of Conduct. "Today Delhi has seen that every paper has a front page advertisement given by BJP. In my opinion this is clear

New Delhi, Feb 5: BJP is projected to get absolute majority in Delhi and win between 41-45 seats and AAP is likely to secure the second place, according to a survey by Research and Development Initiative (RDI). The survey states that AAP is likely to win between 21-25 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly. The vote share projection has given BJP 41 per cent and AAP 36 per cent. Where as, Congress

Kolkata, Feb 5: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today threw her support to the AAP in the February 7 Delhi Assembly elections for the "greater need of the country and development in the capital". "Delhi elections on (Feb) 7. My request to all of you in Delhi to please vote for AAP. For the greater need of the country and development in Delhi," Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister, said in

Mumbai, Feb 5: Subrata Roy, the boss of the Sahara conglomerate, is in a New Delhi prison on contempt-of-court charges and needs to post $1.6 billion in bail to get out. To help raise the money, Sahara is in talks to refinance its overseas hotels, including New York's Plaza. The only problem: It's unclear if the man who's orchestrating the deal, a 34-year-old former broker named Saransh Sharma

Kolkata, Feb 5: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Srinjoy Bose quit as MP as also from the party Thursday, a day after getting bail in a case related to the Saradha chit fund scam. Bose, who spent 75 days in police and jail custody after his arrest by the CBI in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, announced his decision to quit as an MP and also from the primary membership of Trinamool