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The revolt against the party leadership and subsequent surrender of Lal Krishna Advani has only dented his image as a strong and shrewd politician. In this process he has gained nothing and lost what was left with him at the fag end of his political career. In his resignation letter he has lamented the improper functioning of the party and the self serving attitude of the party leaders, but his immediate reason for resignation was to put pressure on the party to backtrack the decision to elevate Narendra Modi in national politics by anointing him as the Chairman of Election Campaign Committee.

New Delhi: It is not the case in Saudi Arabia alone. Indian workers are now facing the same problem in Kuwait.

New Delhi: A former Prime Minister of Nepal and senior leader of the Nepali Congressr Sher Bahadur Deuba has sought India’s logistics support for holding elections to the Constituent Assembly in that country slated later this year.

New Delhi: India is concerned as Saudi Arabia is planning to reduce the annual Haj quota allocated to countries worldwide by 20%.

The salubrious setting for the BJP’s national executive meetings in Goa provided an unlikely background for one of the most vicious instances of political infighting that one has witnessed in recent years. Given the kind of protagonist involved in the battle – L.K. Advani and Narendra Modi with their respective groups of supporters inside and outside the BJP, the RSS in the background and allies like the JD (U) and Shiv Sena watching from the sidelines – it will be months before any calm is restored – if ever.

KOLKATA: Despite the best efforts of the State Election Commission (SEC), pre Panchayat election violence in West Bengal has increased sharply, leading to a near breakdown in the law and order situation.

New Delhi: India has said that it would be 'unacceptable' if it is found that the reported internet snooping by US National Security Agency (NSA) violated Indian laws on privacy.

Outcome of an elective body’s polls is generally treated as an indicator of political parties electoral fortunes in other elective bodies yet to be held elections. They are also a forerunner of possible post-polls political alignments. The outcome of the polls of Haryana’s newly formed seven Municipal Corporations elections announced last week is no exception.

In the post-crisis global economy, 2013 may have begun well for the United States with a slightly accelerating pace of its post-recession recovery as reflected in gains in domestic demand, consumer spending, manufacturing, output and, more importantly, the revival of the collapsed housing market over the first five months of the year. With lower mortgage rates, housing market has staged a sharp recovery with a surge in prices and increase in new home sales.

The BJP made history in Goa on Sunday when the party moved from Vajpayee—Advani era to one where it will be led by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP leadership appointed Modi the Chairman of the national campaign committee in a significant step towards complete compliance with pressure from its cadres to declare Gujarat CM as the BJP’s candidate for the Prime ministership.