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New Delhi, Mar 20: Narendra Modi today met senior BJP leader LK Advani, who is sulking over being fielded from Gandhinagar in Lok Sabha elections as he wanted to shift to Bhopal. Modi went to his residence and was there for about half-an-hour apparently to persuade him to contest from Gandhinagar, which he has represented for five times in Lok Sabha. The BJP's parliamentary board and the central

New Delhi, Mar 19: With Russia facing sanctions from the US and some other countries after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, India today made it clear that it will not support any "unilateral measures" against Russian government. "India has never supported unilateral sanctions against any country e.g Iraq or Iran. Therefore, we will also not support any unilateral measures by a country or a group of

New Delhi, Mar 19: Amid the unease in his ties with Narendra Modi, BJP veteran L K Advani has expressed desire to contest from Bhopal, shifting from Gandhinagar in Gujarat which has represented five times in the Lok Sabha. Advani is learnt to have informed party chief Rajnath Singh about his preference for Bhopal, sources said. The 86-year-old leader has argued that since most of the senior party

New Delhi, Mar 19: Sharpening his attack on Narendra Modi, Khurshid called BJP's prime ministerial candidate a nursery student, in connection with the post-Godhra riots. "Modi's claim of getting a clean chit in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots is like a nursery student with good marks who thinks he is a doctor and claims to have a PhD," Khurshid said. Last month, the external affairs

New Delhi, Mar 16: Union Minister Manish Tewari, who has been hospitalised due to a heart ailment, is unlikely to contest the Lok Sabha polls, sources said on Sunday. The Information and Broadcasting Minister, who represents Ludhiana constituency in Lok Sabha, may not be in a position to fight elections and is learnt to have apprised the party leadership of his health condition. The 48-year-old

Bangalore, Mar 18: Congress today dismissed the talk about backing Arvind Kejriwal as a combined candidate against BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi from Varanasi, saying it would make its own choice and decision. "I must admire your power of imagination. Very fertile and febrile. I am sorry to disappoint you that whatever your reliable sources are for this information, certainly I

United Nations, Mar 18: Italy has appealed to the United Nations to help free its two marines who are being tried in India for killing two Indian fishermen in 2012. "Italy is willing to try the marines at home, but in the meantime we ask for their freedom," said interior minister Angelino Alfano was quoted as saying by ANSA news agency. Alfano's remarks came ahead of his meeting with UN secretary

Kolkata, Mar 18: After the Anna Hazare fiasco, a Muslim cleric who is close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has now dropped a bomb. Imam Barkati, the Shahi Imam of the Tipu Sultan mosque in Kolkata, says he approves of the strong words Rahul Gandhi uses against Narendra Modi and the BJP and wants Mamata Banerjee to make sharper attacks on them too. The Imam, who had said at a

Guwahati, Mar 17: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday questioned why BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi needed a “safe seat” to contest the Lok Sabha elections. “If Modi is so sure about his win and there is a Modi wave in the country, then why is he looking for a safe seat? He can contest anywhere in India and win,” he told reporters in Guwahati. Launching an attack on BJP and

Madurai, Mar 17: Maintaining that he has been "unfairly vilified" and suspended, DMK leader M K Alagiri today alleged "some forces" in the party were not allowing its chief and his father M Karunanidhi to discharge his functions. "Some forces in the party are not allowing Kalaingar (Karunanidhi) to function as party president. They are harassing the president of the party," he told a large