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Rao, who is a four-time MP, has been upset with Congress's decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh. Even during the Parliament debate on Telangana, he met Advani in order to put pressure on the Congress.
He has sought a BJP ticket for his kin in Andhra Pradesh. He claims to have resigned from Council of Ministers and says he is waiting for the PMO to accept his resignation.
No Congress leader on 24 Akbar Road is speaking well of Chidambaram, who has opted out of the Lok Sabha polls. His son, Karti P Chidambaram has been named as the Congress candidate from his Sivaganga constituency in Tamil Nadu.
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He also admitted that the Congress was not in a good shape inSeemandhra after bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. "It was wrong on the part of Pawan Kalyan to meet Modi who has not apologised for the post-Godhra incidents," he said at a 'meet-the-press' programme organised by Visakhapatnam Journalists Forum.
Kalyan, a popular Telugu actor, who floated Jana Sena Party last week, met Modi in Ahmedabad yesterday and declared his support to his candidature for the prime minister's post. The BJP and Jana Sena have also given indications about forming a poll alliance in Andhra Pradesh.
The AAP leader, who was shown black flags by some local residents as he launched his tour this morning, said, "Centre should not be allowed to increase gas price from April 1.There are some media reports that the EC has taken cognizance of my complaints for which I am very thankful. I hope the EC would not allow the Centre to increase gas price".
The AAP leader had termed the Centre's decision to increase the price of natural gas from April 1 as a clear violation of the model code of conduct and had written to the Chief Election Commissioner V Sampath about it.
"The people of this country should decide themselves as to whom they would vote for in Lok Sabha elections. If the UPA or the BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi comes to power, the gas price would increase manifold. And, this is only doing to benefit Mukesh Ambani," he alleged.
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The federal regulator has filed a brief in the US court of appeals for the second circuit, saying the district court acted well within its discretion by permanently barring Gupta from associating with brokers, dealers, and investment advisors, permanently enjoining him from future violations of the securities laws and permanently barring him from serving as an officer or director of a public company.
Sixty-five-year-old Gupta has been granted time till April 7 to file his reply to the SEC brief.
Questioning the party, Singh today said the BJP is now divided. "Outsiders have encroached upon the party."
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As the agency prepares its submission before the Supreme Court later next week, CBI sources said that a detailed questionnaire had been sent to Nair which was replied by him.
The questions included those on coal policy and allocation of coal blocks when the PM was in charge of the coal ministry between 2006 and 2009.
The replies of Nair were sought on delay in auctioning of coal blocks, missing coal files and events leading to the Talabira coal block being given to Hindalco in which the CBI has registered a case against then coal secretary P C Parakh.
Kejriwal along with AAP candidate Purushotam Dagar of Faridabad Lok Sabha seat began his road show from Sector 37 market.
When Kejriwal along with his supporters reached Faridabad, some residents, who claimed that they did not support any political party, showed black flags to him and raised slogans against the Aam Aadmi Party.
"Showing black flag to Kejriwal is nothing new in this country. Black flags are always shown by the opposition parties. Kejriwal is the only leader who can govern this country very well," said a AAP supporter.
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Renowned journalist M J Akbar is likely to be appointed as the spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Former revenue secretary and MP NK Singh, who quit Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United, is also likely to be inducted in the party, say BJP insiders.
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The party's seniormost leader was miffed over the decision to field him from Gandhinagar against his wish of Bhopal. But he finally gave in and agreed to contest from Gandhinagar.
He has been representing the Gujarat constituency since 1991.
Jaihind, who is contesting from Rohtak, a seat represented by two-time MP Deepender Singh Hooda, son of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, also drove to file his nomination papers in Kejriwal's "lucky" blue WagonR car.
"I dont own any car and Arvind (Kejriwal) happened to ask me as to how was I campaigning for election since I do not have a car. When he came to know my plight, he offered me his car.
The "highest levels" of Sri Lanka's government were complicit in raping, torturing and abducting ethnic Tamils following the nation's ethnic civil war, a report by rights groups warned today.
Authorities carried out horrific sexual abuse on Tamils, including forced oral sex and anal rape as well as water torture, the report by the UK Bar Human Rights Committee and International Truth & Justice Project found.
It comes ahead of next week's UN Human Rights Council debate on a US-led resolution calling for an international probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. Yasmin Sooka, a top South African human rights lawyer and UN adviser, compiled the report from interviews with 40 Tamils who said they were held in custody by Sri Lankan authorities.
"Sri Lanka's military is still waging a campaign of persecution using abduction, arbitrary detention, torture, rape and sexual violence" after the crushing of separatist Tamil rebels in 2009, Sooka said.
Doctors worrying about the safety of cholesterol-reducing statins are creating a misleading level of uncertainty that could lead to the loss of lives, according to one of the UK's leading medical academics.
Professor Sir Rory Collins, from Oxford University, said he believes GPs and the public are being made unjustifiably suspicious of the drug, creating a situation that has echoes of the MMR vaccine controversy.
The academic, one of the country's leading experts on the drug, is particularly unhappy with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which has run well-publicised articles by two critics of statins that he argues are flawed and misleading.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalising Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the US. The European Union's latest measures target 12 people involved in Russia's annexation of the peninsula.
Earlier, Ukraine and the EU signed an accord forging closer political ties. Separately, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has agreed to send monitors to Ukraine, after Russia dropped objections.
The six-month mission will initially consist of 100 international civilian monitors, who will be employed in nine regions of Ukraine - including the south-eastern areas rocked by violence between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian activists. However, the observers will not go to Crimea.