Politics

"In Australia I will meet the country's top leadership and am honoured to address the Australian Parliament," said Modi.

In Doda, sitting Congress MLA Abdul Majid Wani was accompanied by senior Congress leader and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

AICC General Secretary BK Hariprasad said that the party has stayed the candidature of Rama Kant Karuwa and Rakesh Kiran Mahto, respectively, from Jugsalai (SC) and Silli.

It's Parliamentary Board would meet on Wednesday to announce names of the candidates, party spokesman Devsharan Bhagat said.

"Naidu is washing his hands off by allocating a mere amount of Rs 5,000 crores for farm loan waiver when the cumulative interest itself is Rs 28,000 crores," YS Jaganmohan Reddy said.

At least 55 people, including 11 women and three security personnel, were killed and nearly 200 injured in the attack.

The ministry will finalise the revised estimates for 2014-15 and Budget estimates for 2015-16 for Plan and Non-Plan expenses.

"Our PM has decided that we will converse in Hindi to the possible extent. But this doesn't mean opposing any other language," he added.

"He is aware that the National Conference and the Congress have lost their ground, as both the parties have miserably failed to deliver in the past six years," BJP state president Kishor Sharma said.

The focus of the campaign will be to have more women and people from scheduled castes, tribes, OBC and Extremely Backward Castes.

A Muslim cleric joined the state unit of BJP among others ahead of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

Ruling National Conference constituted the party's Election Campaign Committee to manage and oversee the party's campaign for the Assembly polls.

During his term as the Gujarat Chief Minister, Modi had started off a similar 'Run for Unity' marathon in Vadodara to mark the death anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

After meeting Uddhav Thackeray, Sena MP Vinayak Raut said that as the party MLAs feel that BJP did not give them due respect, they will not attend the oath-taking ceremony.

Divided in 20 chapters, the book presents various facets of Yadav's life including his political rise and contribution to socio-political movements.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said media did not accurately reflect the spirit of his speech at the CAG conference.