BJP president Rajnath Singh has said his party will focus on improving its electoral prospects in the southern states and the North-East in the next general elections as part of the NDA’s efforts to win more seats and wrest power from the Congress-led the UPA coalition.

Railways has come under fresh pressure to further hike passenger fares, at least in a small way, and revise freight rate in the wake of virtual decontrol of diesel price but whether railway minister P.K. Bansal bites the bullet in the Rail Budget remains to be seen.

Pakistani Taliban will directly approach three political leaders, including PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, to become guarantors for the peace talks, as it renewed its offer of dialogue with the government.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today visited Thursday’s blast sites and hospitals where the injured are being treated to express “solidarity” with the people of the city and appealed for peace and calm.

As dust settles on the ‘Hindu terror’ issue, government has said home minister Sushilkumar Shinde had not apologised for his controversial remarks but only expressed regret, which was accepted by the BJP.

The US warned of large-scale flight delays and cancellations as a result of the sequester (automatic spending cuts) on March 1.

The first nuclear weapon test carried out by India in 1974 was a “near failure”, claimed a secret US assessment made in 1996, but it does not explain the reasons for it to arrive at such a conclusion.

Actress Sonakshi Sinha may have performed a disco song in Himmatwala but in real life she does not go to clubs or disco regularly.

Doctors of a Singapore hospital who had treated the December 16 gangrape victim were today asked by a court here to depose as witness through video conferencing.

India were 182 for three in their first innings at stumps on the second day of the first cricket Test against Australia here today.

Brief Scores: Australia 1st Innings: 380 all out