News in brief: March 26

Bangalore, March 26: Here are the top

in brief for Wednesday, March 26:

10.00 pm: Former Inspector General of Jammu Kashmir - Farooq Khan - joins BJP.

9.30 pm: Ashok Chavan fielded to save Congress in Maharashtra, said Arun Jaitley

8.30 pm: JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar criticised the BJP on its sidelining its old guards. He also slammed Modi.

8.00 pm: Narendra Modi addressed Bharat Vijay rally in New Delhi.

7.20 pm: DMK to back Congress in the Lok Sabha election.

7.14 pm: After two days in Varanasi, what I understood is that Narendra Modi is losing here, Arvind Kejriwal said.

7.11 pm: Mukhtar Ansari, criminal-turned-politician, says he will contest from Varanasi as an Independent candidate.

6.40 pm: NCP chief Sharad Pawar apologises to EC for his 'double voting' remark.

6.30 pm: Diesel to get costlier.

5.50 pm: AAP leader Ashutosh hits out at Narendra Modi. He said Modi is afraid of Kejriwal because he knows he would lose against him in Varanasi.

5.46 pm: Baba Ramdev says that he wants Sonia Gandhi and Uma Bharti to contest in Rae Bareli.

4.34 pm: Arvind Kejriwal responded to Narendra Modi's AK-49 jibe and tweeted-

Did Modi ji call me an agent of Pakistan and AK 49? Kya PM ke daawedar ko ye bhasha use karna shobha deta hai? .....

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 26, 2014

4.00pm: Narendra Modi addresses rally in UP says Congress has broken the trust of people.

3.35 pm: Rajnath Singh addresses press conference from Lucknow, says BJP confident of winning the Lok Sabha elections.

3.07 pm: BJP hits out at Congress over poll manifesto, says the manifesto is a document of 'deceit.'

2.50 pm: AAPhits out at Narendra Modi, says he is scared of AAP's growing popularity.

2:30 pm: Supreme Court grants conditional bail to Sahara chief Subrata Roy

2:20 pm: Rahul Gandhi evades question on Congress candidate from Vadodara pulling out, admits Narendra Rawat was unsure of fighting Modi

1.45 pm: BJP set for a point-by-point rebuttal to Congress's manifesto.

1.40 pm: Congress president Sonia Gandhi formally releases the manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

1.06 pm: Congress releases manifesto for this year's Lok Sabha poll.

1.05 pm: BCCI president N Srinivasan meets the cricket body's counsel, PS Raman, at his residence in Chennai. Raman later said it was a courtesy meeting.

1.00 pm: Former J&K IG Farooq Khan joins BJP in Narendra Modi's rally in Hiranagar in Kathua district.

12:20 pm: Modi kickstarts his series of Bharat Vijay rally. He takes a dig at J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over the latter's mocking his previous rally in Jammu held last year.

12:05 pm: Narendra Modi rally in Uddhampur, Jammu and Kashmir, to begin shortly

12:00 pm: Ashok Chavan files his nomination.

11.30 am: BJP demands resignation of Akhilesh government in UP after SC slams it over the Muzaffarnagar riots.

11:00 am: The Supreme Court slams Akhilesh yadav government, says it failed to prevent the Muzaffarnagar riots. It denied any CBI or SIT probe into the riots.

10:26 am: Top Indian Mujahideen operative Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu remanded in police custody till April 2 by Delhi court

10.15 am: Congress to release poll manifesto around 12.45 pm. Priyanka Gandhi reviews last-minute preparations at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

10:00 am: No one can force me out of BCCI, I have done no wrong, says N Srinivasan

9.41 am: Fresh trial in Salman Khan hit-and-run case to begin today.

9.40 am: expelled DMk leader MK Alagiri to move court against his party.

9:30 am: Sonia Gandhi to release Congress's Lok Sabha poll manifesto today.

9:15 am: Sunny Deol likely to contest Lok Sabha polls from Ludhiana on Akali Dal ticket.

8.08 am: Kin of MH 370's passengers slam Malaysian authorities.

8.05 am: Modi to unveil BJP's 11-point vision today.

7.40 am: Mass singing to he held in Bangladesh today to celebrate the country's independence day.

7.25 am: Narendra Modi to kick of Bharat Vijay rally from Jammu and Kashmir today.

7.20 am: BCCI president N Srinivasan likely to step down today.

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