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Bangalore, Apr 2: Internationally acclaimed thinker and Jnanpith Award winner Girish Karnad has urged the minor parties to support Congress party in order to defeat fascists in the impending Lok Sabha polls. Responding to the queries of media persons on Wednesday, justified his decision to campaign for Bangalore South candidate Nandan Nilekani. Mr Karnad, who is known for his sharp criticism of

Bangalore, Apr 2: Disgruntled Congress leader Jaffer Sharief has written a letter to JD(S)?president H?D?Deve Gowda, wishing him and his party good luck in the Lok Sabha elections. In the letter dated March 30, from Madinah in Saudi Arabia, where he is on a pilgrimage, Sharief said,?“I?am writing this letter from Madinah to convey to you that we have prayed for you, your family and your party both

Riyadh, April 2: An expatriate Indian man was stabbed to death by a local Saudi man on a street near Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, media reported Tuesday. The unnamed man was stabbed by a Saudi man on the street Monday, Arab News reported Tuesday. The man died on the spot. The reason for the murder was unclear, police said. According to local news website, riyadhconnect.com, the man was an Indian

Patna/Ranchi, Apr 2: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said the Gujarat model of development would burst after the Lok Sabha election - just as the BJP's "India Shining" burst after the 2004 polls. He was addressing rallies in Aurangabad of Bihar and earlier in Jharkhand's Godda district. He formally started the party's election drive in Bihar Tuesday. "I would like to remind you that

New Delhi, Apr 2: Congress is staring at a rout in Tamil Nadu and faces a big drop in its seats in Andhra Pradesh but is likely to emerge as the lead player in Karnataka and Kerala in Lok Sabha elections, an opinion poll projected. The BJP-led NDA alliance can get 6-10 seats in Tamil Nadu where ruling AIADMK is projected to win 15-21 seats and DMK 10-16 seats, it said. According to the opinion

Mangalore, Apr 1: Former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam encouraged student electorates to exercise their votes in the Lok Sabha Elections 2014 and participate in the largest elections to be held in the world with around 150 million first-time voters in the country. The Missile Man of India ' interacted with students from various colleges across the region at an interactive programme

New Delhi, Apr 1: Terming SpiceJet's offer of rupee one fare across its domestic network as "predatory" and a "malpractice", aviation regulator DGCA today came down heavily on the no-frill carrier and asked it to stop such pricing immediately. Hours after SpiceJet offered fares as low as rupee one valid for domestic travel till next year, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) shot off a

Bantwal, Apr 1: Three persons were arrested in connection with the murder case of auto-rickshaw driver Rajesh, who was killed on March 21 at Kalpane near Polali. The arrested are Imran, Irshad and Hussain, all residents of Demmale in Mallur village in Bantwal taluk. All of the accused are in their early twenties. Police produced them in court on Tuesday which remanded Irshad to police custody for

Mangalore, Apr 1: BJP national leader and Bangalore South Lok Sabha candidate Ananth Kumar stated that the Congress tally of Lok Sabha seats in the Parliament would be less than 100 after the elections in a recap of the 1977 general elections when the ruling Congress party lost its power. Speaking at a press conference in the city on Tuesday, he said that the honeymoon period of the Congress

Panaji, April 1: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was an advisor of an anti-cow slaughter trust with links to Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, the NCP alleged Tuesday. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) vice president Trajano D'Mello provided documents that show Parrikar, publicly known to oppose Muthalik, was an advisor to the Akhil Vishwa Jai Shrirama Gosanvardhan Kendra. D'Mello was