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Modi alleged that the Congress has not been able to address the problems of the poor as its leaders have never experienced such hardships.

Courts in Bihar have awarded five capital punishments and 579 life imprisonments in the first four months of this year.

Ten persons,including two CRPF personnel and four special police officers,were killed in a landmine blast triggered by naxalites in Chhattisgarh.

Ex-Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has criticised the Central and Tamil Nadu Govts for 'staging dramas' on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.

The fate of Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal's daughter-in-law and that of the wife and son of his predecessor Amarinder Singh will be sealed in the 4th phase of elections.

Searing heatwave claimed five more lives in Orissa taking the state's death toll to near hundred.

Top Muslim clerics criticised the imposition of 'Jizya' on Sikh community in Pakistan by Taliban terming it nothing more than 'extortion'.

Five persons have died and more than 100 hospitalised due to outbreak of diarrhoea caused by contaminated drinking water supply in Bholakpur area of Hyderabad.

A retired colonel of the Indian Army who is the BJP candidate from the Sawai Madhopur-Tonk LS seat speaks English is a novelty to the electorate.

All the diagnoses done on samples of the passengers suspected of carrying H1N1 influenza from abroad have come negative here.

A remark by Raj Thackeray advocating Narendra Modi's candidature for PM,has fuelled speculations on a understanding between his party and BJP.

For the first time,two MI-17 choppers will be deployed for aerial surveillance of sensitive areas during the May seven Lok Sabha polling in Rajasthan.

Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said that Congress would also contest the assembly election in Bihar on its own and ruled out any alliance with the RJD in future.

PMK founder S Ramadoss,whose party is a constituent of the AIADMK-led front in Tamil Nadu,said the LTTE would 'not be finished'.

Charging the Congress,BSP and SP with treating Muslims as a mere vote bank Narendra Modi urged minority community to support the BJP's "politics of development".

The defamation case against former Bihar CM Rabri Devi has been deferred as the complainant could not appear in the court on Monday due to his illness.

Sikhs on Monday protested against the treatment meted out to the community members by militants in tribal areas of Pakistan.

An average of 56.57 percentage of voting was reported from the seven polling stations of three parliamentary in Madhya Pradesh.

The pro-Eelam PMK charged alleged Sri Lankan armed forces were continuing its offensive against Tamils in that country by aerial attacks.

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said that Kalyan Singh has always fought for the welfare of farmers like himself.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rubbished suggestions about his prime ministerial ambitions.

With a population of around six lakh odd people and an almost insignificant speck of an area in the vast country of India,Sikkim today,after 34 years of merger with Indian Union,is still striving for recognition from the government and from the ‘Indian’ people.

'These RSS people claim to be brahmachari (celibate) but are,in fact,vyabhichari (dissolute),' Lalu said of the RSS.