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New Delhi, May 13: Exit polls projections that the NDA would form the next governmment were savoured by BJP but dismissed by Congress and JD(U) which said parties should await the poll results on Friday, citing how such an exercise in 2004 and 2009 went wrong. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah also dismissed the projections as a "great time pass" while

Washington, May 13: Indian Muslims in America have expressed “profound sadness” on passing away yesterday of the very courageous human rights activist Mukul Sinha in Ahmedabad. Mr Sinha who was only 63 years old was suffering from lung cancer for the last one year. Since 2002 when the awful anti-Muslim violence occurred in Gujarat, Mukul Sinha was always in the forefront seeking justice for the

New Delhi, May 13: Diesel prices have been raised by Rs 1.22 per litre in New Delhi from Tuesday, immediately after the end of elections as the government ordered the biggest increase in the fuel price since September 2012. The Election Commission (EC) had rejected the oil ministry's proposal to shelve the 2013 Cabinet decision of raising diesel prices in small monthly doses because revenue losses

New Delhi, May 12: India's most bitterly fought national election ended Monday evening, with some 60 percent of the 66 million electorate in three states voting in the 10th and last leg of a contest widely tipped to end a decade of Congress rule. The Election Commission said the balloting ended in Uttar Pradesh (18 seats), West Bengal (17) and Bihar (six), marking the culmination of over five

Hyderabad, May 12: In what is seen as a precursor to results of the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress party was virtually wiped out in the municipal polls in Seemandhra but won a majority of the seats in Telangana. The bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh appeared to have proved costly for the Congress as it could not win a single municipal corporation or municipality in

Varanasi, May 12: As voting got underway in this high-profile Lok Sabha constituency, AAP candidate Arvind Kejriwal said his direct fight was with BJP's Narendra Modi and Congress' Ajay Rai was nowhere in the contest. Rai, however, dismissed these claims and said the voters of Varanasi will elect him as he was the only "son of the soil" in the fray. Speaking to reporters outside a polling booth

New Delhi, May 11: The Election Commission today issued a show cause notice to Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged remarks in Amethi that even if a single vote is cast in favour of Congress and BJP, then it will be "treachery against God and the country". Noting that prima facie he violated provisions of the Model Code of Conduct, the Commission has given him time till May 13

Nagpur, May 11: Seven policemen were on Sunday killed and two others injured when Maoists carried out a landmine blast in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. The incident occurred at 9:40am when the policemen were moving for an operational task in the forest between Pavimuranda and Murmuri villages in Chamorshi taluka of the district. Officials said the slain security personnel belong to the

Mumbai, May 11: Reliance Industries (RIL) and its partners BP and NIKO, the contractor group of the Krishna-Godavari basin (KG-D6) block, have slapped an arbitration notice on the government. They have sought the implementation of the domestic natural gas pricing guideline 2014 that was notified on January 10, 2014 – after the government approved the Rangarajan formula doubling gas prices to $8.4

New Delhi, May 10: Campaigning in the bitterly fought marathon elections for the 16th Lok Sabha spread over five weeks drew to a close today as top leaders sought to muster a final show of strength in the ninth and concluding phase for 41 seats in three states that included Varanasi where Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal are in the fray. The campaign marked by attacks and counter-attacks by