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New Delhi: India has strongly reacted to the second indictment against its diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US, It has termed it as an 'unnecessary' step and any measure consequent to the decision will 'unfortunately' impact upon India-US strategic partnership.

However unpredictable the outcome at this stage of the 2014 national election, the new government, whatever its complexion, would be inheriting major challenges in reviving the economy. The fiscal situation, caught in a cyclical slowdown, reordering development priorities to conform to expectations raised for the electorate, and restoring India’s image as a robustly growing Asian power.

The who-killed-Gandhi poser to establish its RSS connect in the run up of Lok Sabha election by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has unnecessarily opened up old wounds, as also an unsolved mystery, in people’s mind. The Congress vice-president’s message to his audience was that RSS, the diehard Hindu nationalist group, to which BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is closely associated with, killed the Mahatma. The issue was raked up 66 years after the shamefully unfortunate incident by him as a desperate election campaign tool to spruce up his corruption-hit party’s falling popularity with the public.

New Delhi: Indian air and naval forces began their search operations for missing Malaysian airline in the 9000 sq km area along the Chennai coast on Friday after their search in the Andaman Sea yielded no result.

Tamil Nadu will play an important role in the formation of the next government after the Lok Sabha polls. Even earlier the state had provided a sizeable chunk of seats in the formation of the National Front, United Front, NDA and UPA. The state, including one from Puducherry, has 40 seats.

India’s engineering goods export is one of the very few segments that did acquit themselves commendably in the current fiscal, even though the overall export growth is in single-digit due to extraneous factors compounded by domestic disabilities. Engineering exports consisting of iron and steel products, non-ferrous metals products, industrial machinery, electrical machinery and equipment, auto and auto parts, aircrafts and spacecraft ships and boats are likely to compass and even surpass the target of $62 billion this fiscal set by the Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) India.

The season of defection and changing alliance is in full swing in Bihar, which is going to witness a triangular contest in the next Lok Sabha election. The political developments that took place during the last two weeks have strengthened JD (U) led by Nitish Kumar. With the prospect of Lalu, Ramvilas and Congress alliance, it was being assumed that the contest would be direct one between UPA and BJP, but with the departure of Ramvilas Paswan from UPA, the political situation has turned better for Nitish, who was facing complete isolation in the caste based politics of Bihar.

Kerala politics has well and truly heated up with the Election Commission fixing the poll date for the Lok Sabha elections from the state on April 10.

There are two certainties about the general election result. One is that the BJP will be the largest single party in the Lok Sabha and that the Congress’ tally will be around 100 seats. If a rough prediction is made about the seats won by the three main combinations – the NDA, the Third Front and the Congress – it will be something like 220, 220 and 100 in the 543-member Lok Sabha.

New Delhi: India-US deal on civil nuclear cooperation is unlikely to make any significant head way as the American side is apprehensive of the present Indian liability regime. It has urged the Indian side to align its laws with the international convention on nuclear liability.