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Narendra Modi has, after all, given an interview, the first after the BJP declared him as the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate. Notably, he preferred to give his interview to a little known Hindi channel, ETV, in which he talked on a variety of subjects but did not touch upon any of the controversial issues, like 2002 Godhra riots, if he would tender an apology for the riots, his attitude towards minorities, the question of sidelining of veteran L K Advani and expulsion of senior leader, Jaswant Singh. One does not know, if it was purposely or otherwise, the contentious questions were not put to him by the interviewer, Harishankar Vyas, editor of Naya India, considered pro-Modi.

Who will the minority vote for its protection and economic development if all political parties turn totally secular and pro-minority? The question is no longer hypothetical after BJP’s massive Muslim recruitment drive in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand ostensibly to erase its anti-minority image in the country’s traditional minority bastion ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Bharatiya Janata Party and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi desperately need at least some Muslim support to ascend to the governmental power and comfortably control the 16th Lok Sabha. BJP’s Muslim recruits from Gujarat are being dispatched in good numbers to the north and eastern India to interact with local Muslims and seek their support for Modi. Whether or not such tactics would work for Modi and BJP, only poll results can say.

Normally in times of uncertainty, funds will flow out rather than in. Presumably, election times are not exactly those intervals when things are crystal clear. Hence, one could assume that funds should not have flown into India the way it is happening currently.

LUCKNOW: BJP national president Rajnath Singh, who is contesting from Lucknow, the erstwhile land of nawabs, to carry forward the legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is in tight spot.

New Delhi : The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has given green signal to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to conduct Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014 but has sought information from the cricket body about the mechanism it has put in place to check unethical practices like betting and match fixing.

The four southern states, which had always played a crucial role in the formation of the government at the Centre, may not give a decisive verdict in favor the UPA or the NDA this time because of the shrinking of both the fronts. The Congress formed the UPA government in 2004 and 2009 with the blessings of the south while the NDA government too had its share from the southern states.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is confident about bouncing back to power fourth time in succession and increasing his tally in the Lok Sabha after winning over prominent Congress leaders to his side and sucking the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).

New Delhi: With a view to prevent export of crime and terrorism India and Bangladesh are putting in place a better border management system along their 4,000-km-long boundary, informed Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh.

In West Bengal, ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders are no longer talking about ' decimating the opposition' in the coming Lok Sabha polls as before, following the recent fiasco of its scheduled public rally with Mr, Anna Hazare and certain local developments.

New Delhi: India has proposed to the nuke weapon countries that the best way to ensure nuclear safety is a world free of nuclear weapons.