Politics

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh described Deora as "a popular Congress leader who played an active role in national politics".

Smriti Irani had to appear in an interview to get her children admitted to a school like any other parent.

Gurez, which is a part of Bandipora district, is made up of small villages with many of them having just a few houses but every where the elections fever was at its peak.

Though some members of these families are contesting polls this year, it is yet to be seen if the political parties will bank on others who remain active in public life and popular among the masses.

Barring the NDA parties, all regional players have been invited for the conference.

Dasrath, who is the first film personage from the Santali filmdom to fight an election in the state, is taking on the state Industry Minister Champai Soren and BJP's first-timer Ganesh Mahali in the Seraikela constituency.

The new global standard will be instrumental in getting information relating to unaccounted money hoarded abroad and enable its eventual repatriation, Modi said.

At the G20 Retreat Modi was flocked by Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said, "Narendra Modi has been ignoring the contribution of leaders from the Sangh. Now he is appropriating the legacy of Nehru."

"I have decided to set a high moral standard in my public life so submitted my resignation to the president of the party," Mohammad Dilawar Mir said.

Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not been invited for the event to be held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi.

"The upper caste people are foreigners and descendants of the Aryan race....they have come here from foreign countries," Manjhi said.

Modi is on a three-nation trip and arrived at Myanmar on Tuesday.

The simmering tension between them came to a boil on Sunday as Desai left for Mumbai from Delhi airport without attending the swearing-in ceremony.

"PDP would empower every section of the society to ensure equal opportunity of growth and uplift for every citizen of Jammu and Kashmir" PDP patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed said.

India has vital stakes in the security and stability of the Gulf region, which hosts over seven million Indians.