Murli Manohar Joshi, senior BJP leader and the human resources minister during the last NDA regime under Vajpayee, filed his nomination from Varanasi.

RJD and LJP go behind Congress' back; get into seat-sharing deal in Bihar - Congress will likely contest alone now

Nice question. Can anyone predict this? No. But it is a fun topic to explore nevertheless. Right now, there are three major groupings for the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections: They are the UPA (United Progressive Alliance), NDA (National Democratic Alliance) and the so-called Third Front. Major parties in the UPA include the ...

US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been held in an Iranian jail for nearly a month, finally got to meet a lawyer, on March 9, 2009.

Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and well-known writer, Shashi Tharoor is to contest the Lok Sabha elections for Congress from Kerala. It is yet to be seen if the writer contests from Thiruvananthapuram or Palakkad.