Sunday, March 16, 2014, Chandigarh, India
Edition update time 2:30 am (IST)

Modi to contest from Varanasi
Joshi gets Kanpur, Rajnath Lucknow, Jaitley Amritsar & Kirron Chandigarh
New Delhi, March 15
The BJP tonight decided to field its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, ending days of speculation over his seat. The party expects to polarise votes in the electorally crucial state (80 MPs) as well as in Bihar.

Thrice winner Sidhu promises to back Jaitley
Amritsar, March 15
Three-time sitting BJP MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu said he would not contest the Lok Sabha elections from any other seat. The saffron party allotted ticket from Amritsar to senior party leader Arun Jaitley today. Sidhu promised full support to Jaitley in the elections.

SAD happy

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Missing Flight MH370
Malaysian PM fears sabotage
Jetliner may have crashed into Bay of Bengal or Indian Ocean, say investigators
New Delhi/Kuala Lumpur, Mar 15
The missing jetliner was likely steered deliberately to a course that could have taken it anywhere from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysiam Prime Minister Najib Razak said.

Malaysian PM Najib Razak (C) addresses mediapersons in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. REUTERS

Cong to woo voters with water, power sops
New Delhi, March 15
From free drinking water and potato-onion stores to check prices to audit of private power firms and one house per family, the Congress draft manifesto goes all out to woo the 81 crore-odd voters with a sop for every segment.

Akalis set for Hola Mohalla conference despite EC ban
Chandigarh/Anandpur Sahib, March 15
The SAD is all set for a direct confrontation with the Election Commission of India when it goes ahead with its political conference during the Hola Mohalla celebrations at Anandpur Sahib tomorrow. (Details on Punjab page)

Kejri targets media again
Says it lacks guts to ‘expose’ Modi
Holds road show in Bangalore
Bangalore, March 15
Unfazed by the criticism of his attack on media, Aam Aadmi Party  chief Arvind Kejriwal today reiterated that the media had no guts to question Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
(Details on Nation page)

Ex-PPP youth leader shot dead in Bathinda
Bathinda, March 15
A former youth leader of the People’s Party of Punjab who recently joined the Shiromani Akali Dal was shot dead by a group of at least four armed men at his house in Sidhana village, near Rampura, early this morning.

Delhi’s shame SC stays execution of 2 gang-rape convicts New Delhi, March 15 The Supreme Court today stayed the execution of two of the four persons sentenced to death for gang raping and murdering a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi in December 2012.