SANTINIKETAN: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will cast his vote after 13 years in Santiniketan on April 30.

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has not yet heard from his party about the Varanasi seat or his candidature. Though he still proclaims his intention to fight any parliamentary constituency in the country, including Varanasi, his party seems to be looking at Brahmin and Bhumihar candidates

NEW DELHI: From deep sea to You Tube. After battling geographical bumps to keep its Andhra offshore field going, Reliance Industries Ltd is now engaged a bitter fight for eyeballs. India's biggest private oil company on Thursday launched its counter-attack on You Tube to drill holes in allegations made by detractors such as AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal that was uploaded on the social media.

DEHRADUN/NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Satpal Maharaj on Friday resigned from the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of its national president Rajnath Singh in New Delhi.

 LUCKNOW: Former home minister and one-time senior Congress leader Buta Singh will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket from Jalore constituency in Rajasthan.

HYDERABAD: Jaganmohan Reddy — better known as Jagan — has a sprawling house at Lotus Pond in up-market Banjara Hills MLAs Colony. But how long he'll continue living there is doubtful.

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday gave Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) time till March 21 to file its reply to a Rs 100-crore defamation suit filed by the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Infrastructure.

LUCKNOW: Terming distribution of free tea at BJP's "Chai pe charcha" as an act of luring voters and violative of model code of conduct, UP chief election officer (CEO) Umesh Sinha on Monday said "directives have been issued not to allow distribution of tea during the programme free of cost".

 MUMBAI: The Congress leadership may deny a ticket to controversial MP Suresh Kalmadi or his wife Meera, and former chief minister Ashok Chavan has backed out from contesting in the elections. However, Chavan's wife, Amita is still in the zone of consideration from Nanded.

BANGALORE: This is perhaps a first for any major company in India. A former CEO and a former CFO of Infosys will contest the coming general elections — Nandan Nilekani for Congress from South Bangalore, and V Balakrishnan for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from Central Bangalore.