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The recent announcement of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary election by Trinamool Congress supremo and the current chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee created unprecedented uproar and commotion in the state as she chose a large number of candidates belonging outside of the political arena. From famous present day Bengali movie star to ex-captain of national football team, from the history professor of Harvard University to the singer who used to be on the opposite political camp – Banerjee certainly brought all the glitters she could possibly master.

Of all the regional party leaders aspiring to become Prime Minister, Jayalalithaa is more qualified nationwide. She is an able administrator, intelligent, fluent in all the four regional languages, besides English and Hindi and has knowledge of French, the language of international diplomacy. She has been eying the office of the Prime Minister with single-minded devotion for the last three years. West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, too has come out in her support. Once Mayawati hitches her wagon to Jayalalithaa’s, the JAMAMA (Jayalalithaa, Mamata and Mayawati) combination will be a formidable force, which no male-dominated party can challenge.

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.

Bangladeshi youth are protesting against a new Bollywood action thriller that portrays 1971 struggle for independence from Pakistan wrongly. The thriller, titled Gunday, depicts the bloody creation of Bangladesh as a byproduct of a 13-day battle between India and Pakistan beginning on 3 December 1971. According to the viewers, the film apparently indicates that Bangladeshis were involved in crimes like arms smuggling while there were insinuations that they preferred identifying themselves as Indians.