Mumbai,  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said it will not approach other parties for an alliance in Maharashtra. “We are the bigger party. We don’t need to approach other parties for an alliance,” party leader Om Mathur told a TV channel. “Other parties will now approach us for anRead More

Chandigarh, Savitri Jindal, the richest woman in the country, lost from the Hisar assembly seat, officials said on Sunday. Jindal, who was elected from Hisar in 2005 and 2009 and is a minister in the outgoing Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government in the state, lost to BJP candidate Kamal Gupta byRead More

PARTY WON LEADING TOTAL BJP+ 123 123 SHIV SENA 63 63 CONGRESS 42 42 NCP 41 41 OTHERS 19 19 Mumbai,  Falling short of a majority, BJP is emerging as the largest party in Maharashtra assembly and Shiv Sena is finishing second, triggering conciliatory noises from the two former allies overRead More

New Delhi,  With trends projecting a defeat for Congress in both Maharashtra and Haryana, a group of party workers gathered outside the AICC office here demanding that Priyanka Gandhi join active politics. This is not the first time that such a demand has been made but it has repeatedly been snubbedRead More

Mumbai,  In a surprise development, the NCP on Sunday offered outside support to BJP to form a government in Maharashtra “in the interest of stability and development” of the state. “The people of Maharashtra have not given mandate to any single party. No party is in a position to form aRead More

Mumbai, Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Sunday blamed the state leadership for the drubbing received by Congress in the Assembly polls and dismissed the notion of any ‘Modi wave’. “BJP has not won because there was some Modi wave here. It all boils down to the anti-incumbency factor. HadRead More

Toronto, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned about the potential for the spread of Ebola at an award ceremony in Toronto today, saying that much like polio the disease must not be underestimated. Harper said the current situation with Ebola reminds us that in an age of globalization, global trade and travel,Read More

Toronto, Under pressure from rival mayoral candidate Olivia Chow, John Tory has announced that he will release a full list of campaign donors before Torontonians go to the polls at the end of the month. Chow, who plans to publish her campaign donor list on Wednesday, held a press conferenceRead More

OTTAWA — The federal government says Canada will start shipping its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization on Monday. The government says in a release the Public Health Agency of Canada is supplying the vaccine to the UN body in Geneva in its role as the international co-ordinatingRead More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau projects the image of a self-assured, impeccably turned-out, celebrity heart throb. But it wasn’t always that way. By the Liberal leader’s own account, he was an awkward, insecure, pimply-faced youth who was traumatized by his parents’ very public split and his mother’s mental illness, an indifferentRead More