General Politics

Priyanka takes on Modi, says Congress is not old

Priyanka takes on Modi, says Congress is not oldAmethi, Apr. 11: Congress party’s star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi has lashed out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for comparing the Congress party to a ‘budhia’ (old woman), and asked people if she looked old.

“Do I look old to you? Does Sonia Gandhi (Congress president and her mother), Rahul Gandhi or I look old to you,” she asked people of Khalidpur village, while addressing a rally there.

Two pirates, one hostage killed in French rescue move, Paris says

Two pirates, one hostage killed in French rescue move, Paris says Paris - French naval forces overwhelmed pirates who had seized a private yacht in the Indian Ocean a week ago, but at the cost of the lives of one of the hostages and two pirates, Paris disclosed Friday evening. The presidential office said the three other pirates involved in the capture of the yacht Tanis on April 4 had beencaptured.

President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his condolences to the family of the hostage who had died. He stressed France's determination not to give in to blackmail and to keep the pirates in check.

EXTRA: 'Talking loudly' is not the issue, says Indian premier

EXTRA: 'Talking loudly' is not the issue, says Indian premier New Delhi - As the decibel level rises in the run-up to India's general elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his sharpest reaction to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani's charge that he was a weak premier, said Friday that he should be judged by his actions and not his speech. "One cannot be judged strong or weak by merely talking loudly," Singh told journalists in Delhi.

Advani calls ‘Third Front’ a fallacy, ‘Fourth Front’ a fantasy

BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K AdvaniPatna, Apr 10: Bharatiya Janata Party''s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani on Friday said that the Third Front is just a ''fallacy'' and it has no chance of forming the government at the Centre.

Talking to reporters here, Advani said, "I consider the Third Front as a fallacy. If the Third Front is a fallacy, then the Fourth Front will just be a fantasy."

An alliance of Leftist and regional parties known as the "Third Front" was formally launched to challenge the Congress and the BJP.

PM to release Urdu version of Congress manifesto today

PM to release Urdu version of Congress manifesto today

Spain nominates nuclear energy expert for IAEA top job

Spain nominates nuclear energy expert for IAEA top jobVienna  - Luis Echavarri, the head of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in Paris, confirmed Thursday that he was Spain's official candidate to replace Mohamed Elbaradei as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Echavarri told German Press Agency dpa that the Spanish government had formally deposited his candidature at the IAEA on Wednesday.

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