India

Ahmedabad, Mar 17: AAP in Gujarat, has decided to go ahead with a low-profile political campaign for the Lok Sabha polls using unconventional ways to woo voters including street plays and youth internships, due to fund crunch. Low donations in comparison to biggies like Congress and BJP, has desisted the fledgling outfit to approach people through traditional methods like posters, advertisements

New Delhi, Mar 17: Hitting out at Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today demanded "legal accountability" for the "clear and inexcusable failure" of governance during the 2002 Gujarat riots and dismissed talk of clean chit to him as "politically expedient" but "far too premature". Contending that Modi was answerable on moral grounds, the Congress' chief campaigner said, "beyond that there should be a

New Delhi, Mar 16: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday declared he was ready to take on BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi but put a rider that he would do so if the people there want it. Addressing a rally here, Mr. Kejriwal said his party wanted him to contest against Mr. Modi and he accepts the challenge to face the Gujarat Chief Minister who should

New Delhi, Mar 16: An upbeat Rahul Gandhi today rejected the view that the Congress party was an "underdog" or that it faced an "uphill" task in the Lok Sabha polls, affirming that there would be a Congress-led UPA III. Acknowledging that after 10 years in power "there is a certain amount of anti-incumbency against us", the Congress campaign chief, nevertheless, disagreed with senior party leader

New Delhi, Mar 16: Putting behind them a "raid" on their residences in south Delhi earlier this year, many Africans say the Indian capital is still their "home" and offers them an environment unlike anywhere else in the world. "India is indeed a great country. The people here are much better than in other countries, where discrimination against people from African countries is severe," James

Srinagar, Mar 16: Curfew continued for a second day in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Sunday following protests after police firing killed a young man, an official said. The authorities have also imposed restrictions in the old city areas of Srinagar, the summer capital of the state and the urban hub of the separatist campaign. A police officer said that curfew would continue in Bandipora

Srinagar, Mar 15: A day after the killing of a teenage boy in alleged police firing in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, authorities on Saturday imposed strict restrictions in several parts of the Valley, including Srinagar city, to thwart protests. A spontaneous shutdown was observed in the Valley against the killing. The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered a magisterial probe into the

Port Blair, Mar 16: India has put on hold the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at the request of the Malaysian government. The Malaysian government wants to reassess the week-old hunt for the Boeing 777 that is suspected of being deliberately flown to an unknown destination "The Malaysian authorities are reassessing the situation. They will figure whether they need to shift

New Delhi, Mar 15: The Supreme Court Saturday stayed the execution of the death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta, two of the four convicts for the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, whose death sentences was upheld by the Delhi High Court March 13. A special bench of Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh stayed the execution of the death sentence till March 31. The court directed the

Kuala Lumpur, Mar 15: Not ruling out a hijack, Malaysia today said the movement of the missing Flight MH370 with 239 people on board was "consistent with deliberate action by someone on plane". Prime Minister Najib Razak said authorities are now trying to trace the plane across two possible corridors - in the north to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern corridor from