India

Greater Noida, May 2: An RTI activist was found dead in a burnt car near Eldeco Crossing in Greater Noida, police said on Friday. Chandra Mohan Sharma’s charred body was found inside his car on Thursday night after passersby informed the police that the vehicle caught fire, a police official said. Mr. Sharma was an employee at Honda car company and he was returning home on Thursday night after

Mumbai, May 2: A day after making comments that Muslims who do not vote for his party are not "true Muslims", Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi today said true Muslims cannot vote for BJP. "BJP has always been cruel and unjust towards Muslims. Then how can a true Muslim vote for the BJP? When Mulayam Singh was the chief minister, he saved the Babri Masjid from getting demolished," Azmi told PTI

Amethi, May 2: In a veiled attack on Narendra Modi, Priyanka Gandhi on Friday said there is a leader in the country who wants power for himself and makes repeated demands to strengthen him. Campaigning for her mother Sonia Gandhi in Amethi, she also alleged that books with baseless material written about her family were being dumped a night before at places where her public meetings were scheduled

Guwahati, May 2: Heavily armed NDFB (S) militants unleashed violence in two districts of Assam falling under Bodoland Territorial Administration area, killing 11 people, including three children, and leaving three others seriously injured since last night. A group of 20 to 25 NDFB-Songbijit militants, armed with AK-47 rifles, swooped down on three houses at Balapara-I village in Kokrajhar district

Chennai, May 2: Even after the twin blasts at the Chennai central railway station left one person dead and 14 injured, political parties did not wait for long to get into a blame game. The DMK blamed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for going easy on terror. The BJP said that Narendra Modi did not have enough security despite him being a target for terrorists. When asked if the BJP was

Ahmedabad, May 1: A day after Narendra Modi was booked for making a speech at a polling booth while displaying BJP's election symbol in violation of electoral laws, a preliminary probe by Gujarat police has found he addressed the gathering outside the restricted 100-metre radius. "Just like any other case, we will investigate this case to find out the facts such as whether Modi was inside the 100

Amethi/New Delhi, May 1: “I am Rajiv Gandhi’s daughter,” was Priyanka Gandhi terse reply on Friday to purported comments by Narendra Modi that he considers her as his daughter. Ms. Gandhi, who is on a campaign trail in Amethi, reacted sharply when she was asked by reporters to comment on purported remarks by the BJP prime ministerial candidate that she was like a daughter to him. Priyanka’s

New Delhi, May 1: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Wednesday sprung a surprise by admitting to a relationship with a young television anchor, drawing sharp retorts from political opponents. The 67-year-old, two time Madhya Pradesh chief minister, announced his relationship with journalist Amrita Rai on Twitter, thus putting an end to the rumour mills on social media where intimate

New Delhi, Apr 30: Moderate to high turnout today marked the polling in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on a day when Narendra Modi sparked a major controversy by violating the election law by making a speech and displaying BJP's poll symbol in a booth. The fate of some of the top guns of Congress, including Sonia Gandhi, and BJP like Modi, L K Advani, Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar

Ahmedabad, Apr 30: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday ordered the Gujarat administration to lodge a complaint/FIR against Narendra Modi for delivering a politically charged speech and displaying the BJP's poll symbol lotus in violation of an electoral law soon after exercising his franchise in Gandhinagar. Congress' legal department secretary KC Mittal lodged a complaint with the poll body