A day after his comment on Rahul Gandhi visiting Dalit homes for his "honeymoon" sparked outrage, Baba Ramdev Saturday apologised and said he was misinterpreted, even as a police complaint was filed against the yoga guru in Lucknow.
Outgoing US Ambassador Nancy Powell Friday said the ongoing Indian general elections will "set the stage for the next phase" in Indo-US bilateral ties as she pushed for both sides to achieve a trade partnership of $500 billion.
A chargesheet was filed in a court here Friday against 19 accused, including former telecom minister A. Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi over money laundering in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
The issue of deletion or diversion of six million voters' names in Maharashtra blew into a full-fledged controversy with demands ranging from repoll in all the state's 48 Lok Sabha constituencies to a CBI probe, following an apology tendered by Election Commissioner H.S.Brahma, who admitted to the lapse.
Calling the Congress and the UPA government "insensitive" and "bent on destroying the country", BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Friday said that they had "cheated" the country in their 10 years of rule and called upon the people to punish them. He claimed that the election would prove to be a complete rout for them.
The Supreme Court Friday said that the seven conspirators in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination will not be released for now, a ruling that left the mother of one of the convicts disappointed.