Gandhinagar, April 5 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will become the next prime minister of India but cannot be compared to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani said Saturday. “Modi will become the PM of the country…I would not compare him (Modi) to Vajpayee ji,” the former deputy prime minister […]
Madrid, April 5 Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas has once again given his support to the man who has taken his first team place in league matches this season. Although Casillas is first choice for his club in the King’s Cup and Champions League, Diego Lopez has played in goal throughout the BBVA Primera Liga […]
New York, April 5 Not happy with the current network providers to your mobile phone? You might soon get a better option – Google! After providing the world’s most popular phone software and offering one of the fastest broadband speeds in the US, Google is now planning to become your mobile network operator. According to […]
Agartala/Guwahati, April 5 (IANS) The six are part of the 543 constituencies where polling will take place from April 7 to May 12. The result will be known May 16. The Congress is the major force in Assam which it rules while the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is the dominant force in Tripura. But the […]
Rio de Janeiro, April 5 Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari will use a fleeting trip to London this weekend to help decide the remaining places in his World Cup squad. The 65-year-old will attend Saturday’s Chelsea-Stoke clash at Stamford Bridge and Sunday’s West Ham-Liverpool fixture at Upton Park, Brazil’s football confederation said in a statement […]
Kolkata, April 5 West Bengal’s Left Front chairman Biman Bose conceded that many of those who switched allegiance to the Trinamool Congress three years back are yet to return to the Communist fold but saw a “little change” favouring the opposition in the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls. Bose claimed the Trinamool did not […]
Bhubaneswar, April 5 Odisha received more central funds during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule than what it got during the term of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Saturday. Addressing an election rally at Khariar town in Nuapada district, about 550 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, Gandhi said the […]
London, April 5 (IANS) If you are a European and fat, chances are that you have inherited a gene variant from Neanderthals. Scientists believe that modern Europeans share a number of genes involved in the build-up of certain types of fat with Neanderthals. An international team of researchers led by Philipp Khaitovich of the Max Planck […]
New Delhi, April 5 India will begin voting Monday in a staggered national election widely tipped to give a decisive edge to a confident BJP, led by Hindutva mascot Narendra Modi, which may however still fall short of a parliamentary majority. It will be the world’s biggest democratic exercise, involving a staggering 814 million voters […]
Why has the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) not been able to release the party manifesto as yet, even though the first phase of balloting begins Monday? For Narendra Modi, this lapse is a major embarrassment. Not only does it point to a cloudiness of the outlook which is holding up its release but also that […]