The `Badhshah` of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, posted on his Twitter account about missing his parents.
“Talking to boys on the sets…we talked of our parents. Miss my parents now on the drive back from the shoot. They went too early,” Shah Rukh posted on the popular social networking website.
SRK`s father had died of cancer when he was just 15, while his mother passed away in 1990 after prolonged illness, just before Shah Rukh made a stronghold in the industry.
Army troops recovered an AK-47 rifle and some ammunition during searches in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district Saturday after a patrol party was fired upon by guerrillas, said a defence spokesman.
“Army today (Saturday) recovered an AK-47 rifle, along with magazine and ammunition in Palhalan area of Baramulla,” he said.
Claiming that 2014 will be the year of “Modi and lotus”, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday said Congress cannot fight the ideology behind his party while calling the UPA government a burden and a threat for the country.
Addressing series of election rallies across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Chandigarh as a part of his “Bharat Vijay” programme, Modi drew parallel between 2014 Lok Sabha election and 1857 revolt.
As many as 435 candidates are in fray from Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha constituencies which will witness single phase polling April 17, a poll official said Saturday.
“As 109 candidates withdrew their nominations, leaving 435 candidates representing mainstream and regional parties and independents contesting from the 28 parliamentary seats,” state chief electoral officer Anil Kumar Jha told reporters here.
Of the total candidates in fray, 412 are men and 23 are women.
Of the total nominations received by the returning officers in all the 28 seats, 544 were found valid.
Describing BJP leader Narendra Modi as the biggest threat to secularism in India, noted social activist Shabnam Hashmi Saturday also charged the the Mamata Banerjee regime in West Bengal was turning “authoritarian and dictatorial”.
“After working in Gujarat for the past 12 years, I know how authoritarian and vindictive Modi is. There is absolute tyranny there. Unfortunately, the present scenario in Bengal is very close to dictatorship, very close to authoritarianism.
The Biju Janata Dal’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections as well as Odisha assembly elections, released by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday, had sops for almost all sections of people.
Reading the highlights of the manifesto, the 67-year-old Patnaik, who is seeking his fourth consecutive term as chief minister, said that if voted back to power, his government will provide assistance to make all the makeshift houses in the state permanent structures.
Describing the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a divisive leader, BSP supremo Mayawati today expressed fear that the country may witness riots if he wins power at the centre.
“Modi is a downright divisive leader who presided over riots in Gujarat in 2002…The country will be gripped by riots and communal frenzy if he wrests power at the centre,” she told an election meeting in Buxar district in favour of Dadan Yadav, the BSP nominee from Buxar.
A debate by candidates in the high-profile Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency Saturday was marred when supporters of Nandan Nilekani of Congress and Ananth Kumar of BJP engaged in heated arguments over issues raised by them.
The two-hour long panel discussion was organised by Bangalore Political Action Committee (BPAC) – an initiative of citizens aimed at building a better Bangalore and headed by businesswoman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw – at a college to give an opportunity for the candidates of political parties to highlight their development agenda for the city to an invited audience.
Lashing out at Congress for trying to communalise politics to get Muslim votes in view of the growing popularity of BJP’s Narendra Modi, former IPS officer Farooq Khan said Muslims cannot be deceived now as the slogan “Muslim for Modi, Modi for Muslim” was gaining popularity among them.
“It has been routine practice in Congress to indulge in communalising the politics to mislead and seek the votes of Muslims in particular. Today a very popular slogan among this community is getting overwhelming response which is ‘Muslim for Modi, Modi for Muslim,” Khan told reporters here today.
The Election Commission has received 185 complaints of violations of model code of conduct in West Bengal, with defacement of properties topping the list, and taken action in over a 100 of them, an official said Saturday.
According to assistant chief electoral officer Amitjyoti Bhattacharji, of the 185 cases registered so far since the announcement of Lok Sabha polls March 5, decisive action has been taken in 106 while the remaining 79 are under the scanner.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said countrymen are not aware of Gujarat model at all which the BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi wants to implement after coming to power.
“Modi is trying to create an atmosphere in his favour through newspapers and TV channels. He says that Gujarat model would be implemented in the country but what is it, nobody knows,” Yadav said mocking at Modi during an election meeting here.
The AAP Saturday hit out Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, accusing him of corruption and faking simplicity.
Addressing the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) first major meeting here, senior leader Manish Sisodia told the gathering that there was nothing much to choose between a scam-ridden Digambar Kamat-led Congress government or a lobby-driven Parrikar-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Seeking to boost her party’s campaign in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address an election rally here Sunday.
Although Congress’ candidates are busy campaigning in their respective constituencies, party leaders say Gandhi’s rally will bolster the party’s flagging morale before Delhi goes to the polls April 10.
“Sonia Gandhi’s rally will resuscitate the Congress. There will be a huge crowd in the rally,” Delhi Congress chief spokesperson Mukesh Sharma said Saturday.
An Air India plane to Kabul was today diverted back to Delhi after Afghanistan’s main airport was closed because of possible dangers to aircraft in the wake of a Taliban attack on the country’s Election Commission headquarters nearby.
The Air India plane was diverted along with other planes of other carriers as the Kabul airport was closed, an Air India official told PTI.
If the situation normalises and the airport reopens, Air India plans to send a bigger plane accommodating today’s passengers on tomorrow’s flight, the official said.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today chose graft, BJP’s main plank in the Lok Sabha polls, to attack the saffron party, saying “are they blind” to people like B S Yeddyurappa in Karnataka and mining mafia of Chhattisgarh.
“Are they blind when they stand by people like B S Yeddyurappa in Karnataka. They go to Chhattisgarh and don’t see mining mafia, sand mafia in the state and stand beside its chief minister,” Gandhi said, while addressing a rally here as party candidate Raj Babbar stood beside him.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday charged the Congress-led UPA central government with becoming a burden and threat to the country.
Addressing a “Bharat Vijay” rally in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, actress Kirron Kher here, Modi said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was unable to provide security to the country and had failed on all fronts.
A youth was arrested with 8 kg of heroin valued over Rs.25 crore in the international market, police said Saturday.
Anumulagundam Somasekhar, 32, was arrested from the Nizamuddin railway station in the national capital Thursday following a tip-off while he was trying to take the drugs to Hyderabad.
During interrogation, Somasekhar revealed he has an MBA from a Hyderabad institute and took to delivering drugs after suffering heavy loss in his earlier business of stone-crushing.
More than 315 violations of the model code of conduct by candidates and political parties have been registered in Bihar till date, an official said Saturday.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer R. Lakshmanan said candidates from all political parties have been found violating the model code during campaigning for the Lok Sabha poll. So far, 315 cases of violation have been registered since the model code came into force.
These include defacement of public property, misuse of vehicles, illegal meetings and not following the provisions of the Loudspeaker Act.
A five-hour gunfight close to Afghanistan’s main election office in Kabul ended Saturday evening after Taliban gunmen were killed in a counter-attack, an official said.
“Five suicide bombers were killed and two policemen were wounded in Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Independent Elections Commission (IEC) office in eastern Kabul,” Deputy Interior Minister in-charge of Security Mohammad Ayoub Salangi told reporters near the site.
Two teenaged boys were Saturday mowed down by a truck of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon here, police said. The driver was nabbed.
The victims were identified as Praveen Kumar and Pawan Kumar, both 16.
Pawan hailed from Indrapuri in Delhi while Praveen was from Ashok Vihar area of Gurgaon.
Pawan had come to visit his cousin and gone to the Sheetla Mata temple with him.
“The duo were crushed by a over-speeding truck near the temple while crossing the road. They died on the spot,” police officer Dev Charan said.
Vehicle driver Santaj Sheikh, 30, was arrested.
(IANS)
Bouyed with soaring popularity of the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, yet another political party showing inclination to forge electoral alliance with the saffron party.
Governor ESL Narasimhan today directed Chief Secretary P.K. Mohanty and other senior officials to prepare a clear and viable CSR policy for the State to ensure speedy supply of benefits under various schemes to the needy and poor sections. He also directed that tangible benefits in health and education sectors be made hassle free.
TDP president and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu today said the country and the State need an efficient leadership.
Hyderabad Business School (HBS) of GITAM University is going to organize one day workshop on ‘Advanced Training on SPSS for Research Data Analysis’ at its campus on 8th April, 2014. Prof. S.S.Prasada Rao, Dean & Director, HBS informed this in a press release on Saturday.
Former deputy chief minister C. Damodar Rajanarasimha today lambasted Telangana Rashtra Samithi Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao for deliberately failing to keep his promise of merging the TRS into the Congress. He also slammed KCR for retracting from his promise on his party’s merger with the Congress.