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LUCKNOW: BJP faces a tough task in quelling the revolt-like situation in several districts of Uttar Pradesh after release of first list of candidates.

People who live in glass houses must not throw stones. It is rather odd that imperialist west which annexed half the world’s sovereign territories in earlier centuries should gang up to try to stall Crimea’s legal right to determine what is good for itself and its people - to stay with Ukraine or rejoin Russia of which it was a part until recently. As usual, leading the cowboys of the west is the United States, which annexed one after another independent territories, including Texas, Hawaiian Islands and Alaska.

Twenty-five-year-old Fizza Malik began her career as a legal practitioner on 1 March at the Islamabad district court, after graduating from the Islamabad School of Law last year under a distance learning programme with the UK's University of North Umbria. But on 3 March, the charming youth had her mundane innings tragically terminated following a twin suicide attack in the first hours of court business. It was natural that Pakistan’s media and social networks were up on their feet in a rare feat of sobriety outpouring grief, which was prominently telecast by BBC Urdu service correspondent Iram Abbasi.

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh once described himself as a loose cannon. That was the time when he called P Chidambaram ‘intellectually arrogant’ in connection with the launching of the so-called Operation Green Hunt against the Maoists. Chidambaram, who was then the union home minister, earned the praise of the BJP for being so proactive compared to his predecessor, the ‘spectacularly inept’ - according to Wikileaks - Shivraj Patil.

New Delhi: India has decided to file an appeal against an Italian court's order for encashment of bank guarantees worth over Rs 2,360 crore (about 300 million euro) of AgustaWestland as part of penalties in chopper deal.

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.