Stung by Narendra Modi’s attack at the BJP national council, the Congress today said the Gujarat chief was mistaken if he thought that he could attain the stature of a national leader by spending crores of rupees of the state for “self propaganda”.

Against the backdrop of a growing chorus for making him the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today lashed out at the “commission-seeking” the Congress-led the UPA government which is destroying the nation like a termite and dubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a “night watchman” for the Gandhi family.

Embarking on his maiden foreign tour since taking over the highest constitutional post seven months ago, President Pranab Mukherjee left here today for Dhaka on a three-day state visit to Bangladesh amidst a general strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami in that country to protest conviction of its three top leaders for war crimes.

Opener Murali Vijay and number three batsman Cheteshwar Pujara batted with a lot of purpose in the post-lunch session as India reached 160 for one at tea on the second day of the second cricket Test here today.

‘R&B’ star Rihanna says the only person she is scared of is her mother.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar will be certainly ready to become the Prime Minister if there is situation where there is a consensus on the issue, his party leader and Union minister Praful Patel has said.

India’s first all-women bank will start operations from November this year through six branches spread across the length and breadth of the country, finance minister P. Chidambaram said today.

No power in the world can halt the 7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, President Asif Ali Zardari has said, dismissing mounting US opposition to the venture that will be formally inaugurated on March 11.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who is being projected by some in the BJP as its prime ministerial face for 2014 elections, today asked his party cadres to work hard to present an alternative to the UPA government.

In warning to tax dodgers, finance minister P. Chidambaram today said that a huge amount of data is being mined to go after them and ruled out any amnesty scheme for defaulters.