MUMBAI: The Pro Kabaddi League, the IPL-style avatar of kabaddi which has created a lot of buzz since its launch almost a month ago, has acquired Bollywood flavour with actor Abhishek Bachchan buying the Jaipur team franchise.

 NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar has mesmerised millions of cricket fans during his 24-year-long illustrious international career and the Indian batting legend has now become the source of hope for some young sports enthusiasts, this time from football, in Kerala.

kota . Pate dispute to court on Thursday in an elderly lawyer was assaulted women's advocate . Frightened women's advocate judicial downstairs fell unconscious in the hospital MBS fellow lawyers . Report on Violence against Women Lawyers , tampering and theft case has been registered .

NEW DELHI: The 2014 Election battle will truly begin on a large scale on Thursday as a large chunk of the country, accounting for 91 seats, goes to the polls. It includes all seats in Delhi, Haryana and Kerala and several in UP, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra. BJP will need the Modi effect to build momentum, while Congress will be pressed to minimize the predicted damage.

 NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday called the relentless media and publicity campaign by BJP as "vulgar" use of black money and asked if this is what Narendra Modi meant by his promise of bringing black money from Swiss banks.

ALLAHABAD: Hearing two writ petitions filed by BJP leader Amit Shah seeking a stay on his arrest in connection with two FIRs lodged against him for alleged hate speeches in Bijnor and Shamli districts, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the case until Thursday and directed the state counsel to produce CDs of the speeches.

BAREILLY: Barely 24 hours prior to voting in 10 important seats in western Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said the "fight in UP would essentially centre around SP, BJP and Modi," as if acknowledging that the BJP prime minister pick had an image bigger than his party.

NEW DELHI: In what could be bad news for Indian agriculture , conditions in the Pacific Ocean seem to be increasingly favouring the onset of an El Nino this summer. In its latest update on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said there was now a more than 70% chance that the unusual weather pattern will develop in the next few months.

 LUGANSK(Ukraine): Russian President Vladimir Putin urged on Wednesday a positive outcome to the first international peace talks on Ukraine but also upped the pressure by warning Kiev's leaders against making any irreversible mistakes.

 NEW YORK: An American student stabbed 19 teenagers and a security guard in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pennsylvania high school on Wednesday, officials said.