PUNE: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has pitted veteran dalit activist Lalit Babar against Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde in Solapur Lok Sabha constituency, while social activist Sameena Khan will take on Union minister of state (coal) Pratik Patil in Sangli. In Maval, party's founder member Maruti Bhapkar will lock horns with Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Babar.
PUNE: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has pitted veteran dalit activist Lalit Babar against Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde in Solapur Lok Sabha constituency, while social activist Sameena Khan will take on Union minister of state (coal) Pratik Patil in Sangli. In Maval, party's founder member Maruti Bhapkar will lock horns with Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Babar.
DIKEN (NEEMUCH): Inaugurating Asia's largest solar power plant on Wednesday, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took potshots at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi saying there can't be any comparison between BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and the Amethi MP.
DIKEN (NEEMUCH): Inaugurating Asia's largest solar power plant on Wednesday, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took potshots at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi saying there can't be any comparison between BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and the Amethi MP.
NEW DELHI: Actors Nagma, Jaya Prada and Ravi Kishan are in the race for Congress tickets in Uttar Pradesh, a competition that promises to spice up the acrimonious electoral battle.
NEW DELHI: Actors Nagma, Jaya Prada and Ravi Kishan are in the race for Congress tickets in Uttar Pradesh, a competition that promises to spice up the acrimonious electoral battle.
SRINAGAR: An Army soldier on Thursday shot five colleagues dead at point blank range when they were sleeping before committing suicide in Jammu & Kashmir's Ganderbal district.
SRINAGAR: An Army soldier on Thursday shot five colleagues dead at point blank range when they were sleeping before committing suicide in Jammu & Kashmir's Ganderbal district.
AMRITSAR: A day after filing of complaint against Punjab local bodies minister Anil Joshi in the court, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) has demanded that an FIR be lodged under relevant sections of the IPC against the BJP leader and his family members who had allegedly registered as voters from two places and for forgery.
AMRITSAR: A day after filing of complaint against Punjab local bodies minister Anil Joshi in the court, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) has demanded that an FIR be lodged under relevant sections of the IPC against the BJP leader and his family members who had allegedly registered as voters from two places and for forgery.
NEW DELHI: Telangana crossed a major hurdle on the route to becoming India's 29th state with Parliament approving the bill to divide Andhra Pradesh in the face of repeated adjournments and continuous disruptions and sloganeering.
NEW DELHI: Telangana crossed a major hurdle on the route to becoming India's 29th state with Parliament approving the bill to divide Andhra Pradesh in the face of repeated adjournments and continuous disruptions and sloganeering.
AHMEDABAD: Maya Kodnani (58), BJP ex-MLA from Gujarat convicted to 28 years of prison for involvement in 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre, was given electric shocks — considered the last line of treatment in major depressive disorder — on Thursday. Doctors said Kodnani has been showing severe suicidal tendencies and failed to respond to aggressive medicine treatment prompting them to consider giving electric shocks.
AHMEDABAD: Maya Kodnani (58), BJP ex-MLA from Gujarat convicted to 28 years of prison for involvement in 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre, was given electric shocks — considered the last line of treatment in major depressive disorder — on Thursday. Doctors said Kodnani has been showing severe suicidal tendencies and failed to respond to aggressive medicine treatment prompting them to consider giving electric shocks.
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which on Thursday filed a chargesheet against Indian Mujahideen's India operations chief Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal and three others, has virtually given a clean chit to 2010 German Bakery blasts convict Mirza Himayat Baig.
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which on Thursday filed a chargesheet against Indian Mujahideen's India operations chief Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal and three others, has virtually given a clean chit to 2010 German Bakery blasts convict Mirza Himayat Baig.
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission, which is now in the final stages of drawing up the general election schedule, is looking at the first week of March to announce polls to Lok Sabha and state assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim. As per indications available, polling may be conducted over six phases in April-May and approximately last a month.
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission, which is now in the final stages of drawing up the general election schedule, is looking at the first week of March to announce polls to Lok Sabha and state assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim. As per indications available, polling may be conducted over six phases in April-May and approximately last a month.
