India

Muzaffarnagar, April 3: The Lok Sabha election has thrown up a new set of challenges for Muslim voters in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar. After facing the brunt of the violence, they are confused and divided over their choice. For Liaquat Ali and Meharban Raza, both Khatauli-based social workers, communal harmony tops the list. “We have lived with Hindus as brothers, the harmony we lost during the

New Delhi, Apr 3: In fresh trouble for Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who is facing an arrest warrant, the Supreme Court has directed him to appear before a Ghaziabad court in a 1.4 million dollar cheating case filed against him. A bench of justices C K Prasad and P C Ghose, however, directed that the arrest warrant issued against 72-year-old Lee for his non-appearance in the case

New Delhi, April 2: Expelled leader Jaswant Singh slammed the BJP for becoming a party of "individual leaders" and said he was "not sure if the BJP is fit to govern" India since "there was no collective leadership." "There is no longer any collective leadership... I don't know if the BJP can be called fit to govern the country today," Singh, a former foreign, defence and finance minister at

Lucknow, Apr 2: Seeking to woo Muslims as well as upper castes, Samajwadi Party today promised quota in police and other government jobs for minority community, release of "innocent" youths jailed on terror charges and constitution of an Upper Caste Commission in its manifesto brimming with sops. Vowing to enact tough law against communal violence, the SP led by Mulayam Singh Yadav said it would

New Delhi, April 2: The Delhi High Court Wednesday upheld the life imprisonment awarded to three convicts in Nitish Katara murder case while terming it a "honour killing". A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice J.R. Midha dismissed the appeals of the three convicts against a trial court verdict of May 2008 which awarded them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in

Ranchi, Apr 2: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said it hurts him when opponents describe the party as communal but admitted that there may have been some flaws on their part in reaching out to Muslims. "We don't do politics on the basis of caste, language and religion. For us it is humanism and cultural nationalism," Singh said, addressing a meeting in Ranchi. "We believe in 'Vasudevaka

Rewa (MP), Apr 1: With flight delays stalking his election campaign in UP and MP, Narendra Modi today attacked the Centre alleging a ''conspiracy'' and demanded that Election Commission probe the matter. Daring the Congress-led UPA, the BJP prime ministerial candidate said that if it was so scared of him, it should declare that it would not let him fly during this election. Speaking at a rally

New Delhi, Apr 1: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review its verdict commuting death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment and dismissed Centre's review petition. "We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers. We find no merit in the review petition and the same is accordingly dismissed," a bench of Chief

New Delhi, Apr 1: With actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani entering the fray as a BJP candidate in Amethi, a war of words has broken out between her and AAP contender Kumar Vishwas over his remark that any "Irani or Pakistani" will not make any difference in the constituency. "The message has reached villages. Now whether Irani comes, Pakistani comes, Italian or American... But Amethi has already

Shevgaon (Maharashtra), April 1: Addressing his first rally for the 2014 election, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Monday sought to place his party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in the same league as two other BJP Chief Ministers, Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh and Raman Singh of Chhattisgarh, saying the Gujarat Chief Minister was not the only one to have scored a hat-trick