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Khanna will take on Punjab Congress chief Pratap Singh Bajwa who had defeated him in the last election in 2009 by a narrow margin.
BJP has fielded Ram Swaroop Sharma for Mandi parliamentary seat in Himachal Pradesh where he will take on Congress's Pratibha Singh, the sitting MP and wife of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh.
"The worst thing that could happen to India after the next election is to have a fractured mandate," Jaitley said here today while exuding confidence that the BJP with the support of NDA allies will be able to form the next government at the Centre.
"If you have a fractured mandate tough decisions are not possible. If you have a clear mandate, the government is strong enough and it can take tough decisions," he said. He noted that coalition government will be there, but such governments with a large nucleus will only be able to survive and not those with a small nucleus.
The police claimed a suicide note was found at his residence. The handwritten suicide note on a Rs 100 stamp paper has named around 50 bigwigs, including politicians, police officers and some government servants who are allegedly responsible for his suicide, police said.
"We are examining every possibility since Vilas Baravkar has unearthed many land scams and illegal constructions in Chakan. We will investigate all of them. We have still not registered any complaint against anyone named in the note," investigating officer Kishore Patil said.
"These five partners have formed alliance to contest polls not for any constructive but for the destructive purpose... They have nothing to do with the problems faced by common people," Ajit said while canvassing for NCP nominee Vijay Bhamle who filed his nomination for Parbhani seat today.
Mahayuti comprises the BJP, the Shiv Sena, the RPI-A led by Ramdas Athawale, the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna of Raju Shetty and the Rashtriya Samaj Paksha of Mahadev Jankar.
Union minister Manish Tewari will not contest Lok Sabha polls and his Ludhiana seat in Punjab has been given to Ravneet Singh Bittu, a grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
This brings to an end the speculation over Tewari's candidature, who was reporting sick and is understood to have expressed his unwillingness to contest from Ludhiana on this ground.
There was speculation that Tewari wanted to shift to Chandigarh seat, however, former Union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was re-nominated.
Bittu, the sitting MP from Anandpur Sahib was not keen on contesting from his seat from where the party fielded AICC general secretary Ambika Soni. Jalandhar MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee has been fielded from Hoshiarpur while Santokh Singh Choudhary has been fielded from Jalandhar.
With this, Tewari joins the league of a number of senior party leaders who are not in fray this time. P Chidambaram, A K Antony, G K Vasan and Jayanti Natarajan are some of them.
Congress will announce a new candidate from Vadodara against Narendra Modi after Narendra Rawat, who was elected in the primaries today, withdrew his name to enable party to put up a strong contender against BJP's PM nominee.
"Narendra Rawat has retired from the contest following BJP's announcement to field Modi from Vadodara. He has requested me to convey to the party command regarding the decision," AICC general secretary in-charge for Gujarat Gurudas Kamat told PTI.
The announcement came ahead of the party's press briefing to release the sixth list of candidates.
Kerjiwal asks the crowds: "Kya mujhe Narendra Modi se chunav ladhna chahiye?
The crowd roars in approval.
Kejriwal says he has no money to fight the elections and asks the people to contribute and says, "Main Narendra Modiji ko chunauti dene ko tyaar hoon."
A garlanded Kejriwal then challenges Modi to a debate.
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"Ambani and Adani will come to power. Think before you vote," says Kejriwal.
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"But I had no alternative but to quit since the promise on which I came to power -- the Jan Lokpal Bill -- was not allowed to be passed. The BJP has been calling me 'bhagoara', an absconder, but I have not fled the scene."
He then borrows from the Ramayana to illustrate how leaving the battlefield is sometimes for the greater good.
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Those who threw ink at Arvind Kejriwal, gave Musharraf (former Pakistan President) a red carpet welcome...
The Congress will also seek a reservation for women in politics. There will be a focus on the right to health and employment, and the youth and middle class. The poll document is likely to unveil the party's goal to create 100 million new jobs for the youth by 2020.
The BJP and the AAP are yet to release their manifesto.
Planes, ships and state-of-the-art tracking equipment are hunting for any trace of the passenger jet, which Malaysia said crashed in the forbidding waters after veering far from its intended course.
They face a huge challenge locating the Boeing 777's "black box", which holds vital clues to determining what caused the plane to vanish after it took off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing on March 8.-- AFP
The stamp -- part of a series called 'Remarkable Lives' honours Noor, a descendant of Tipu Sultan, along with nine others including actor Sir Alec Guinness and poet Dylan Thomas.
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He was talking to media at a function where BSP MP Surendra Nagar joined the ruling Samajwadi Party along with his supporters. Taking potshots at the BJP, Yadav said its graph was coming down very fast as the polling dates were coming near.
"They started with Gujarat development model but they started following communal agenda," he said.
Sahara chief Subrata Roy is facing contempt proceedings for violating court orders for alleged non-payment of more than Rs 20,000 crore to millions of investors in schemes sold by two group companies.
This is Sahara group's fresh proposal after the apex court rejected a 10-step plan offered by the company on March 13.
Rajnath Singh said Jaswant Singh could not be nominated despite "everyone" wanting and all senior party leaders, including himself, were also "pained" by this decision.
He said "extraordinary decisions are taken in extraordinary situations" but refused to elaborate.
"Even while desiring from the depth of our hearts, it was not possible for us to give ticket to Jaswant Singhji from Barmer," Rajnath Singh said.
He acknowledged that Jaswant Singh had told him about his desire to contest from Barmer and that he had told him that he will discuss the issue with the Rajasthan unit of BJP.
"I talked to everyone. Everyone respects him. But there were certain political compulsions because of which the ticket could not be given to him," Rajnath Singh said.
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Pic: A file picture of Arvind Kejriwal attack with ink in November 2013.
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So, remember, Kejriwal has not declared himself a candidate from Varanasi. People's verdict is awaited.
AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan have also had ink thrown at them earlier.
The additional charge was framed yesterday under 376 (e) of IPC after the sessions court accepted the prosecution's application in this regard.
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam today examined the investigation officer in the telephone operator gang rape case and one of the police constables to prove the charges of repeated offence, which was introduced after the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case.
Days after sentencing four men to life term for brutalising a telephone operator in Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai, a local court on Monday framed fresh charges against the three common convicts.
Alagiri is soon set to launch a state-wide tour to hold consultations with loyalists across Tamil Nadu as he looks to galvanise them ahead of Lok Sabha polls.
Also read: Karunanidhi under grip of betrayers, alleges Alagiri
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The actor-turned-politician was campaigning in Hapur when the area legislator, Gajraj Singh, grabbed her face and reportedly kissed her. Nagma angrily broke free and walked off.
Hapur is a part of the Meerut constituency from where Nagma is contesting next month's national election.
The candidate had reportedly gone there to inaugurate a party office and visit a gurdwara.Though the visuals have been seen on various channels and websites, neither Nagma, nor the Congress have acknowledged them. Nagma has denied the incident.
"Nothing like this has happened. These are all lies. How are such lies being spread?" -- NDTV
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The AAP chief who arrived here in Varanasi by the Shivganga express train, faced an angry mob of BJP workers at different points in the town who shouted slogans of "Kejriwal vapas jao" and "Kejriwal murdabad".
The AAP leader arrived with around 50 workers and is scheduled to address a rally later in the day to ask the people of the constituency whether he should take on BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi who is contesting from this seat.
He first faced opposition by the BJP workers at Tagore town colony in Bhojubir locality where he halted at a party worker's residence and later faced similar opposition at Baba Kal Bhairon temple in Vishesehwarganj locality.
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Blessed with a face innocent of any malice or calculation, Nanda is remembered even today, as much for being Baby Nanda or the chhoti bahen of her earlier films as for her successful career as the soft-spoken heroine of some 40 films thereafter.
She played sister to stars like Raaj Kumar (Dulhan) or Dev Anand (Kaala Bazaar) and doing small roles in big films like Dhool Ka Phool. Nanda's ability to arouse the audience's protective instincts was pronounced even then --- most noticeably in two weepies: Bhabhi (1957) and Chhoti Bahen (1959). Read Dinesh Raheja's 2002 tribute to her on rediff.com.
Tweets on the egg thrown at Kejriwal's car:
pieush agrawal @pieushsapna: Eggs thrown at Arvind Kejriwal's car in Varanasi. He has the choice now for his breakfast - fried or boiled
Rajesh Dhandapani @QuickBenMurugan:
Profound question....why egg throwing is considered as an insult
PERUMAL PILLAI N @56perumal
RT-"Kejriwal has reached Varanasi ahead of Modi because he will sweep and clean all the dirt in Varanasi so"
Narendra Lowanshi @Namo_namah272: ye to hona he tha but isme bjp ka hath hai RT
Sherni. @Highheelswaali When life throws eggs, make anda pav. #AamAadmiStyle
Prices of eggs may go up since it's become a favourite protest tool. Remember, eggs were thrown at BJP candidate Kirron Kher during her visit to Chandigarh a few days ago.
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But Jaswant Singh's rebellion against the Bharatiya Janata Party on being denied a party ticket has a slightly different dimension. He has been one of the seniormost leaders of the party and has held important positions in the BJP-led governments at the Centre. Read more
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Pic: Arvind Kejriwal takes a dip in the Ganga in Varanasi/NDTV
The BJP has decided to field Modi for the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi as well as Vadodara in his home state Gujarat.
Pic courtesy: NDTV
In a terse, four-line reply to the petroleum and natural gas ministry's March 14 proposal seeking EC nod for notifying the revised gas prices for the April-June 2014 quarter, principal secretary with the EC K Ajaya Kumar said "after taking into account all relevant facts, including the fact that the matter is sub-judice in the Supreme Court, the commission has decided that the proposal may be deferred". Read more
Pilot is counting on development work and projects started under his initiative over the last five years to see him through, but Rajasthan Water Resources minister Sanwarlal Jat is confident of success as all the eight Assembly segments in the Ajmer Parliamentary constituency are now in BJP's kitty.
But Pilot is unfazed despite Congress's comprehensive defeat at the hands of BJP in the recent Assembly elections in the state.
"I am ready to take on and will defeat the BJP candidate this time also. In the last elections, I defeated sitting MP Kiran Maheshwari by a margin of 76,000 votes... This time, I am confident of a better performance," Pilot said.
After an extensive investigation, the three-member panel also said allegations of match-fixing against Gurunath Meiyappan during the Indian IPL required further investigation.
"Roots of corruption and malpractices have crept in deep into the game of cricket, more particularly the IPL, and are seeping into the game at an alarming rate," the panel had said in its 170-page report, last month.
"The probe panel report in sealed envelope contains very very serious allegations and unless BCCI President steps down, no fair probe can be conducted. We can't divulge details of the report in an open court, the court says, allowing the BCCI counsel to go through a certain portion of the report.
The SC has adjourned the case to March 27.
Nobody, not even his claque of applauders, quite believes that he is patient with dissent or dissenters. Impatience, the alarmists argue, could lead to imprisonment. Fascist is the preferred epithet for Modi among his detractors and their numbers are as large as his admirers.
This argument blurs the distinction between authoritarian or totalitarian rule and fascism. Read
The Kumaramangalams are among 200-odd families scattered across the globe whose lives changed forever today when they received a text message. "Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived,' the text message read. Full story here
Guided by a principle of physics called the Doppler effect, the company, Inmarsat, analyzed tiny shifts in the frequency of the plane's signals to infer the plane's flight path and likely final location. The method had never before been used to investigate an air disaster, officials said. Read more
Authorities say they have 108 reports of people missing or unaccounted for after Saturday's huge landslide in the north-western US state of Washington.
Eight bodies have been recovered so far after the 54m (177ft) deep wall of mud swept near the town of Oso, about 90km (55 miles) north of Seattle. Search crews have worked day and night, using helicopters in the dangerous conditions that destroyed 30 homes. Several people, including an infant, were critically injured.
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