PUNE: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday harped on the 'pro-rich toffee model of development' in Gujarat and said industrialists who had reaped its benefit were funding Narendra Modi's expensive election campaign.

AHMEDABAD: Amid Rahul Gandhi's 'toffee' barbs over giving land by the Gujarat government to the Adani group at throwaway prices, BJP has hit back saying the group got cheap land from earlier Congress-supported governments.

 NEW DELHI: The international media has been largely unsparing towards BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi.

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NEW DELHI: India is the world's ninth biggest military spender, sandwiched between Germany-Japan on one side and South Korea-Italy on the other, in the latest list for the 15 countries with the highest defence expenditure.

NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday accused Narendra Modi of being "anti-dalit", citing a booklet by him in which he called manual scavenging a "spiritual experience" and a remark in which he described dalits as "mentally retarded" persons.

NEW DELHI: Back-to-back insider accounts mocking PM Manmohan Singh as the titular head of the UPA government have rattled the Congress, with the party groping for answers to the unceasing narrative that Sonia Gandhi ran the government by remote control.

CHIKKABALLAPUR: The BJP's PM nominee, Narendra Modi, on Sunday made light of JD(S) chief H D Deve Gowda's remark that he will quit Karnataka and take political sanyas if Modi became the PM, saying the former PM is welcome in Gujarat where he will take care of him better than his sons.

LUCKNOW: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati had a narrow escape on late Sunday when the front wheel of her charter plane got stuck during landing, officials said on Monday.

 HYDERABAD: The Congress on Sunday released its first list of candidates for Seemandhra. In view of the exodus from the party in protest against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state, many new faces have found place in the list consisting of 20 Lok Sabha aspirants and 139 candidates for the residuary Andhra Pradesh Assembly.