As expected by many, Narendra Modi has won from Maninagar constituency, defeating IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife Shweta Bhatt of the Congress by a margin of 86,373 votes. Furthermore, BJP is all set to form the government in Gujarat for the fifth time in a row. Elated with the win, the Gujarat Chief Minister tweets: “No need of looking behind …FORWARD…We want infinite energy, infinite courage, infinite patience…” Modi... 

As the 23-year-old who was gangraped in Delhi on Sunday battling for life, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is working overtime to come up with methods in order to prevent such crimes from taking place again. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, he said that tinted glasses and curtains is going to be removed from buses. “In the review meeting with the police officers and transport officers, it was decided that there shall be immediate crackdown on... 

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has cleared rumors that he has any intention of becoming a Prime Minister. He said he was more than happy working for the people of Bihar and did not dream of becoming the PM. “I am a humble worker of the people of a poor state. The people of Bihar have given me the opportunity to serve them and whatever abilities I have, I will use them to serve the people of this State, I don’t think or see anything... 

After so many controversial remarks being made by Pakistani minister Rehman Malik, BJP has asked UPA government to explain why he was given an invitation to visit the country. “What Rehman Malik said was unwarranted, unprovoked. We strongly condemn it. I want to ask the Home Minister why Malik was allowed to come if his visit to India was with an agenda. Why didn’t the government respond to all this strongly?” said BJP’s Ravi... 

Ahmed Patel is widely been regarded as one of the most influential men in the Congress, but prefers to keep away from the limelight. However, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s continuous attack on the part, more so its first family, has forced Patel to take up the battle on behalf of the beleaguered party and most importantly Sonia Gandhi. “He is politically targeting Congress president and Rahul (Gandhi) because he wants to hide... 

A man killed his mother at their house and then went berserk opening fire inside the elementary school where she taught, massacring 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in fear to the sound of gunshots coming out from the building. The 20-year-old killer, having two handguns, committed suicide at the school, with death toll reaching a figure of 28. This incident has come less than two weeks before Christmas. It is the US second-deadliest... 

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik who is in India right now will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today.   However, he is not going to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. There has been no agenda set for his meeting with Manmohan Singh but the indications are that there is going to be a talk on the Sir Creek issue, apart from the 26/11 case. According to the sources, Malik is also going to meet the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha... 

Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) notched its first electoral victory. Municipal chairman of Mangrol town in Rajasthan’s Baran district, Ashok Jain, won the confidence of public after members of the ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP forced him to face the electorate under the Right to Recall provision. Jain is a member of AAP’s national council. Jain came out triumphant as most of the voters reposed confidence in him... 

That Rahul Gandhi is the crown prince of the Congress has never been in doubt. But now, there is a clear sign from the party that Rahul Gandhi has become the next prime ministerial candidate of Congress. Party spokesperson P.C. Chacko said in media that Rahul will lead UPA’s campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and take up an ‘important responsibility’ in the party very soon. However, the party is not going to project him... 

The year 2012 is not going to finish on a good note for tigers. It is worthwhile pointing out that as many as 78 tigers have been killed, most of them by poachers, in 2012 – the highest number when you take the figures of last 12 years into consideration. This sharp increase in the tiger deaths has cast aspersions on conservation efforts for the wild cats. According to the 2010 tiger census, 1,706 tigers were left in the wild. Out of the 78...