"Mayawati had sent offers to me to join BSP and threatened that otherwise I will be left doing rounds of courts and made to languish in jail," he told reporters in Lucknow. The SP general secretary also alleged that independent MLA Mukhtar Ansari, accused in Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Krishnand Rai murder case, and BSP MP Akbar Ahmad Dampi conspired to kill him during the recently-held Lok Sabha bypolls in UP.
The delegations led by Baijayant Panda, Ravi Shankar Prasad (both Bharatiya Janata Party), Sanjay Kumar Jha (Janata Dal-United), Shrikant Shinde (Shiv Sena), Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Kanimozhi (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and Supriya Sule (Nationalist Congress Party-Sharad Pawar) will visit a total of 32 countries and the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
Kareena has been a leading lady now for 25 years, Deepika for almost two decades and Alia for over a decade. Dinesh Raheja chronicles the changing ways Bollywood has treated actor-moms.
Many of our leading men and women are also all for dramatic physical transformation for the sake of artistic authenticity.
In what may be seen as a message to the electorate that he has a say in the party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday inducted three Cabinet and two Ministers of State (Independent Charge) ahead of next year's assembly elections in the state.
Abhishek Bachchan along with his actress wife Aishwarya Rai and mother Jaya Bachchan visited the Kedarnath shrine and offered prayers to Lord Shiva in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand on Friday.
The engagement ceremony took place at the Bachchans' residence soon after the couple landed from the premiere of their latest film Guru in Toronto and New York.
Two months after getting a reprieve from the Allahabad High Court in the controversial land purchase in the district, actor Amitabh Bachchan laid the foundation stone of a girls college in the name of his daughter-in-law and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, at a function in Barabanki at Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Bachchan, wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya along with SP leader Amar Singh and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav attended the function.
The Bachchans perform last rites in Uttar Pradesh.
The Bachchan family offered a chadar and conducted special prayers at the dargah.
Around 2,000 Gorkha Muslims staged a protest march supporting the Gorkha Jamukti Morcha cause.
Protesters also burnt effigies of Banerjee and vowed to continue their fight for Gorkhaland.
"There is no matbhed (difference) or manbhed (ill feelings) among our leaders," Yadav said.
'Winning this election will take us a step closer to realising our dreams'
Bunty Aur Babli turns 15 while Amar Akbar Anthony turns 43.
Ruling Samajwadi Party appeared to be headed for a split on Sunday as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his party supremo and father Mulayam Singh were engaged in an open face-off, sacking each other's loyalists Shivpal Yadav and Ramgopal Yadav.
The Dabangg actor gets candid about her fashion choices.
BJP won 18 of the seats while the TMC won 22 of the seats.
'I just want to keep on working till they have to shoot me down.'
Security personnel in large numbers were deployed in the hill district of West Bengal after widespread clashes between GJM activists and the police were witnessed on Saturday.
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Sukanya Verma looks at husband and wife filmi collaborations.
The list, which is a mix of seasoned political players and greenhorns, has 17 women candidates, five more than the last elections, constituting roughly 41 per cent of the candidates.
Several actors decided to promote their movies on Valentine's Day with a special show called Ishkiyaon Dhishkiyaon
Sukanya Verma looks at notable troikas in Bollywood's catalog of three hero vehicles.
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Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
Bollywood is ready with its line-up of theatre releases, but it remains to be seen whether we will get to watch these movies in theatres this year.
The party, however, chose to play down the incidents calling them 'minor protests', and claimed that there was no discontent among the workers.
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Amid heart-rending scenes, the mortal remains of five army jawans killed by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control were on Thursday consigned to flames with full military honours in their respective villages in Bihar and Maharashtra.
On its 25th anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 10 things she still loves about Mohra.
The ruling SP declared the candidates for nine assembly seats besides changing the candidates of 14 constituencies ahead of the 2017 UP polls.
At a time when China is trying to make its foray into South Asia, India should use its shared history to strengthen its ties in the region, says Dr Rup Narayan Das.
The convoy started from Bhalla college ground and went to Har ki Pauri with a host of party leaders and family members in attendance.
As the dust finally settles on the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections 2019 and Bharatiya Janata Party along with its NDA allies emerges as the clear winner, here is a list of who won in each of the 7 phases of elections.
President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma awards to 73 individuals, some posthumously, at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
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