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Kuala Lumpur/New Delhi, Mar 15: Search operations for the Malaysian jetliner, which mysteriously disappeared last Friday, moved closer to the Chennai coast with India today readying to deploy its assets in the Bay of Bengal following a fresh request from Kuala Lumpur. Acceding to Malaysia's request, India has expanded its search to scour an expanse of more than 9,000 square kilometres in the Bay

Bangalore, Mar 14: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal will hold road shows across Bangalore Saturday and address a rally Sunday in the city centre while campaigning for the party's Lok Sabha candidates in Karnataka where polling will take place April 17, party leaders said Friday. "Kejriwal will also hold a road show and address the public Sunday at Chikkaballapur, from where we are fielding former police

New Delhi, Mar 14: Controversial leader Anna Hazare, who left Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee red-faced two days back, today said he had skipped the poorly-attended rally because he was misled. He maintained that he does not support any of the political parties but endorses Banerjee individually as she is the best of all the Chief Ministers of the country. Breaking his silence on his

Cuttack, Mar 14: Three persons were convicted while six others were acquitted by a court in Cuttack in connection with the nun rape case in Odisha’s Kandhamal district during the 2008 communal riots. District Sessions Court Judge Gyana Ranjan Purohit held Mitua alias Santosh Patnaik guilty under section 376 (rape) of IPC, two other accused persons Gajendra Digal and Saroj Bahdei were convicted

Lucknow, Mar 14: BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi has ruled out campaigning against his estranged cousin and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi constituency. The 34-year-old leader, likely to contest on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from Sultanpur, told media late Thursday that he believed in political decorum and never harboured any ill will against his

New Delhi, Mar 14: Backing its “tainted” leaders, the Congress on Thursday announced that former Union ministers Subodhkant Sahai and Pawan Kumar Bansal would contest the Lok Sabha elections from Ranchi and Chandigarh respectively, while Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily would be fielded from Chikkaballapur. After the party’s Central Election Committee meeting, spread over two days, the Congress

New Delhi, Mar 14: The BJP on Thursday announced its third list of candidates for nine states for the April-May Lok Sabha elections. The list of 100 candidates included prominent leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy. The party, however, decided to delay announcement of candidates from Uttar Pradesh owing to lack of unanimity on Varanasi and Lucknow constituencies

New Delhi, Mar 14: The talks between Congress and TRS over an alliance have run into trouble and the regional party of Telangana has now opened a channel of communication with BJP for a possible tie-up. The talks between TRS and Congress have got into difficulties over the number of seats each will contest in the newly-formed Telangana state, particularly for the 119-member Assembly, sources said

New Delhi, Mar 13: The AAP has almost decided to pit former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal against Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls if the BJP's prime ministerial candidate contests from Varanasi. AAP leader and Kejriwal confidant Manish Sisodia, who is the virtual no. 2 in the AAP, also said his party hopes to field 350-400 candidates in the April-May elections and do particularly well

New Delhi, Mar 13: The BJP on Thursday announced that Chief Minister Narendra Modi will contest elections from one seat in the state, without ruling out the possibility that he may fight on a second seat from Uttar Pradesh. “I can definitely say that Modiji will fight elections from one seat in Gujarat,” state BJP general secretary Vijay Rupani told reporters in Ahmedabad. “There has been a