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Turkmenistan's president has demanded that construction work begin in 2015 on the TAPI pipeline that will carry natural gas from his energy-rich country to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said all the agreements required for the project's launch should be...
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Ten people were killed, half of them high school students, when a truck slammed into a tour bus full of college hopefuls heading for a campus tour in northern California on Thursday, police said.Five students, three chaperones and the drivers of the bus andFedEx truck were killed, according...
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New information emerged Friday in the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and, with it, new questions:How is the search for the plane coming?The effort got a vote of confidence Friday that it is headed in the right direction.We have very much narrowed down the...
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Gujarat Congress today filed a complaint with returning officer of Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, alleging that senior BJP leader and the party's candidate L K Advani submitted false information regarding his education in the election affidavits.
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has hurt his feelings by refusing to don a skullcap offered by an imam. Why should he (Modi) care about me and my emotions and feelings when he refused to wear a cap offered by an imam,...
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Congress today attacked Arvind Kejriwal for his statement that AAP should not have quit the government in Delhi in a hurry, saying the party made the non-passage of Jan Lokpal Bill an alibi to run away. Congress General Secretary Shakeel Ahmed told reporters that Aam Aadmi Party coming to...
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In his strongest personal remarks yet on the clergy sex abuse scandal, Pope Francis on Friday asked forgiveness for the damage' that abusive priests have inflicted on children and pledged that the Catholic Church will not take one step backward' in efforts to address the crisis.I feel compelled...
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One person was killed while six others were injured today when two coaches of a Mathura bound train derailed here between Maura and Goverdhan stations. The last two coaches of Alwar Mathura Passenger train derailed and were dragged for about one km before the train came to a halt, according to...
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BJP's Prime Minister nominee Narendra Modi's acknowledgement of his marital status has given a handle to Congress in this vituperative poll campaign with senior leader Digvijay Singh raising the pitch of propriety. I am a widower and if I remarry I won't hide like your 'Dear Feku', the AICC...
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Myanmar's opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi warned today that her country, despite a spate of reforms hailed by the international community, is not yet a democracy. Speaking in Berlin to accept a human rights award, she said the country formerly called Burma still needs a...
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The Election Commission banned public meetings and rallies addressed by BJP leader Amit Shah and Samajwadi Party minister Azam Khan. In a letter to the Uttar Pradesh government, it has also ordered that first information reports registered against them for making highly inflammatory speeches...
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Not just from across the country, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi is facing opposition at home for making bizarre and shocking statement over punishment to women who were raped. On microblogging website Twitter, Bollywood actress Ayesha Takia, the daughter-in-law of Azmi, said: if wot im...
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Hours after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi targeted BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi's personal life, his party on Friday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission in this regard. Narendra Modi hid marital status in earlier affidavits, hence violating law, noted...
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Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India and he will assume his charge on April 27.In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, Judge of...
19:17
All four persons, including state minister Sabitri Mitra's son-in-law Samadip Sarkar alias Tinku, accused of beating up Election Commission personnel in Malda's Manikchak area were arrested on Friday. The Malda district administration had lodged two FIRs at the Manikchak police station...
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Infosys chief executive officer S D Shibhulal will step down from the company by January 9 next year, sending Indias second-biggest software exporter on a hunt for his successor. Shibulal, one of the seven Infosys founders, wants to retire as CEO of the company on or before January 9, 2015,...
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Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh today lashed out at BJP for suspending his son Manvendra Singh, calling it an act of revenge and warned that the party will have to face consequences for the injustice meted out to him.Singh, who is contesting Lok Sabha election as an Independent from Barmer...
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Hopes of NRIs to cast votes in the ongoing general elections through Internet were dashed on Friday with the Supreme Court saying that any interim relief at this stage may open a pandora's box. The apex court took into consideration the submission of the Election Commission that grant of...
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Raising the pitch against Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today attacked him over his alleged links with the Adani group, saying the Gujarat businessman was given everything while senior BJP leaders like L K Advani and Jaswant Singh were thrown out.Advani was thrown out-- Jaswant Singh was thrown out...
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US President Barack Obama has spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the situation in Ukraine and both leaders have called on Russia to move its troops back from the border region. The White House said Obama spoke with Merkel about the concerning situation in...
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This time we voted with aan, baan and shaan. A red carpet was literally rolled out for differently-abled people at all polling stations across the city,' said an elated Sanjeev Sachdeva, as he returned from his polling booth in Mansarovar Garden in West Delhi on Thursday. Mr. Sachdeva,...
15:56
Brushing aside as speculation that he has differences with the leaders of BJP, widely expected to form the next government, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said they are media invention. On differences with the new government, I...
14:44
Novelist Sue Townsend, best known as the author of the successful Adrian Mole series, has died, a friend of her family has told the BBC. Townsend, 68, died at home on Thursday after a short illness. The first of her comic series, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, was published...
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M I Khan reports from Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday said that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has derailed as he is defending rapists. It is a very bad thing to defend rapists, Mulayam Singh Yadav has derailed,' Lalu Prasad told newspersons...
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This is what Rahul Gandhi said at the Doda rally today: Accusing the BJP of raising hollow slogans about women dignity and their empowerment, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said that its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi even hesitates in taking the name of his wife.Addressing a...
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If Rahul Gandhi is raising personal issues of Modi ji's life, we can pick up loads of Gandhi family issues which we don't, says BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad. Another senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitaraman, says, Instead of worrying about Modiji's marital life, Congress should protest against...
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Why does Gujarat have indifferent social indicators, in spite of having enjoyed runaway economic growth and relatively high standards of governance? Read
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SP chief Mulayam Singh has refused to back down over his rape remark saying there is nothing wrong in what he said. He added that there should be no debate over the remark. Farhan Azmi, who is the son of Maharashtra SP chief Abu Azmi says his father may have been trapped into saying adultery...
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Cracking the whip, the Election Commission today directed the West Bengal Police chief to arrest all persons named in an FIR for beating up poll personnel in the state and send the compliance report by this evening. The Commission has also directed the DGP to arrest persons who had organised the...
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea questioning the Special Investigation Team probe giving clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots. The apex court also declined the plea to reconstitute the SIT for probe into the riots case. The SIT report gave Modi a clean chit...
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Ashish Shakya @stupidusmaximus Pretty sure Abu Azmi is trying to win an election in Afghanistan.
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Just in: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea questioning the SIT probe giving a clean chit to Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots. The SC also declines a plea for the reconstitution of a SIT.Follow the latest election updates on Twitter: @RediffElections
12:21
Lakshadweep Lok Sabha constituency recorded 87.05 per cent polling for the lone seat in the polls held yesterday in the Union Territory, where Congress sitting MP Hamdullah Sayeed is trying his luck for the second time. The polling percentage in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls was 85.98 per cent.Follow...
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Abu Azmi continues in his defence of 'netaji'. Mulayam respects women, he made Phoolan Devi an MP,' he says. In an interview to Mumbai newspaper Mid Day, Azmi, who is the Maharashtra chief of the Samajwadi Party said, Rape is punishable by hanging in Islam. But here, nothing happens to...
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SP leader Abu Azm defends Mulayam Singh's rape remarks: Netaji is strictly against violence on women, I know his nature. He has been quoted out of context.UP CM and Mulayam's son has said, I won't comment on that. I don't know in what perspective he has said that. It's the generation of TV...
11:20
'If the Nairs split between Shashi Tharoor and the BJP candidate, O Rajagopal and the Nadars combine with the Leftists and the Christians to vote for the CPI candidate, Bennet Abraham, what would happen to Tharoor. 'It is presumed that the voters do not cast their votes, they vote their...
11:18
Known for always sporting flashy gold chains, veteran Bollywood musician Bappi Lahiri's wife owns more jewellery than hubby and he owns moveable and immoveable assets worth nearly Rs 12 crores besides five cars including BMW and Audi.According to Bapi's affidavit filed with the Election...
11:10
The Indian Medical Association has appealed to its 2.75 lakh doctor-members across India to give 25 per cent discount in doctor's fees for one week to all patients who visit them with their fingers bearing the voting ink mark. The Bengal chapter of the IMA has gone one step ahead by appealing to...
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On a day when Mulayam Singh Yadav made headlines for his comments on rapists saying 'boys will be boys' and they commit mistakes, for which they shouldn't be hanged, the party's senior leader Azam Khan called BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi 'a big dog'. Referring to Modi's earlier...
10:58
In line with the constitutional mandate to curb the corrupting influence of money power in elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued detailed guidelines and set up an elaborate administrative machinery to monitor the expenses of candidates and ensure a free and fair poll....
10:57
Narendra Modi's economic philosophy appeals to the urban middle classes fed up with the Congress style of social democratic politics and welfare policies. Read
10:52
None of the six major political parties in Tamil Nadu have given sufficient representation to the fairer sex in the April 24 Lok Sabha polls in the state despite having claimed to espouse the cause of women in Parliament. While ruling party AIADMK, which is captained by one of the popular...
10:42
Mizoram votes for its lone Lok Sabha seat today.
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The battle for 2014 Lok Sabha polls continues to get more personal as Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has now challenged BJP's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Amit Shah saying he can't take revenge from them for the Muzaffarnagar riots. Khan said, Amit Shah said he wants to take revenge...
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CNN IBN: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav got himself embroiled in yet another controversy as he defended rapists saying sometimes boys make mistakes but don't deserve the death penalty which was strongly criticised by his rivals. While addressing a rally in Moradabad, he even...
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At least a dozen people suffered njuries in a bomb blast in Ichhra, one of Lahore's densely populated localites, early today. According to Lahore police chief Chaudhry Shafiiq, a device was planted outside an electronics shop in the Pakistan Chowk...
08:43
US regulators warned Facebook about making changes to the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the smartphone messaging service set to be acquired by the social network for a whopping $19 billion. The warning came as the Federal Trade Commission informed...
08:41
A woman was arrested after throwing objects, including a shoe, at Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state was giving a speech in Las Vegas, and according to the AP, she ducked but did not appear to be hit by the object.' The Las Vegas Review Journal said the woman threw...
08:23
Voting for the lone Lok Sabha constituency and an assembly by-poll in Mizoram began today, for which additional eight companies of central para-military forces have been deployed. The by-poll is being held to the Hrangturzo assembly constituency....
01:57
At least 51 jihadist and Islamist fighters were killed as rival forces clashed in Syria on the border with Iraq today, a monitoring group said. The fighting erupted at dawn after an assault by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on posts held by al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front...
01:23
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked USAID today to turn over all records about the Obama administration's secret Cuban twitter programme as part of a broader review of the agency's civil-society efforts worldwide. The request included copies of messages the US government or its...
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A ancient piece of papyrus that contains a mention of Jesus' wife is not a forgery, according to a scientific analysis of the controversial text, US researchers said today. The fragment is believed to have come from Egypt and contains writing in the Coptic language that says, Jesus said to...
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held US-mediated talks today to try to revive their crisis-hit peace process, a Palestinian official said, as a report of a possible breakthrough was played down. Peace talks sponsored by Washington hit a new impasse at the end of March when Israel refused...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that his decision to take the Crimean peninsula under Russian control was made final after secret polls showed that its people wanted to be ruled by Moscow. My decisions were finalised after people's attitudes became clear, Putin said. We weren't...
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In a pummelling cross-examination the prosecution called Oscar Pistorius's account of killing his girlfriend impossible today, zeroing in on apparent inconsistencies in key parts of his testimony. Your version is so improbable that nobody would ever think it's reasonably, possibly true it's...
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The pro-Russian militants who have put this country on the brinkby seizing buildings and declaring independent republics in the east appeared to be ready to soften their tactics Wednesday, and politicians saw an opportunity to promote a deal.A new regional poll showed very limited...
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Northeast Delhi constituency, where sitting Congress MP J P Agarwal, BJP's Manoj Tiwari and AAP's Anand Kumar are in the fray, recorded the highest voter turn out among the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital at 67.08 per cent. Chandni Chowk recorded the second highest voter...
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A small team of US Marines are to head soon to Chad's Zakouma National Park to train local forces in the fight against the poaching threatening the area's elephant herds. Around 15 marines are to arrive in the Central African country by the end of April and will stay for around a month, a...
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BJP sacks Jaswant's son from national executive3rd phase polling: Impressive voter turnout in most regionsAAP unveils Mumbai manifesto, vows to decriminalise gay sexGhulam Nabi Azad asked to prove identity at polling boothMulayam on rape: Boys make mistakes, why hang them?Pilots of Jet flight...
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