Pune, Mar 16: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi derided each other during campaigning in Maharashtra on Monday.

While Pawar condemned Modi by calling him a "frontline leader" of the communal forces in the country, Modi mocked Pawar by saying that the Congress has cheated him on the prime ministership issue.

New Delhi  - Indian general elections have resulted in fractured verdicts, hung parliaments and governments formed or supported by multiple political parties for most of the past two decades.

As the world's largest democracy gears up for its 15th general election starting April 16, leaders of political parties are engaged in frenetic parleys to cobble together pre-poll alliances which they hope will be winning combinations or, at least, yield numbers that may give them a say in the formation of the next government.

New Delhi, Mar 15 : The Election Commission has disqualified the candidature of 3,423 candidates for not filing the details of the expenses incurred during the last Lok Sabha or recent Assembly ele

Patna, Mar 15 : The Bihar unit of Nationalist Socialist Party (NCP) declared on Sunday that it

Islamabad  - Pakistan's government Saturday announced a proposal that it hopes will calm growing political tensions in the nuclear-armed country.

The announcement came after US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton placed separate calls to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, in last-ditch efforts to end a stand-off between them over the restoration of a top judge sacked by former military strongman Pervez Musharraf in 2007.

Nairobi/Khartoum - Three western hostages who work for international aid organization Doctors Without Borders are free after being kidnapped earlier this week in western Sudan, according to reports in a local newspaper.

Quoting a government official, the Sudan Tribune reported the release Saturday without citing any further details.

On Friday, the Italian government had announced the release of the Canadian nurse, Italian physician and a French coordinator, but then had to withdraw its announcement.