Top News in Brief: April 3

Bangalore, April 3: Follow top news of the day in brief:

8.15 pm: CNN-IBN poll tracker in North India [Read here]

8.00 pm: Narendra Modi said if elected to power, he would take all the necessary steps, including framing a law or signing pacts, and vowed to take action against anyone who has "looted" the country.

7.56 pm: Shakti Mills gang-rape accused convicted for repeat offence.

7.55 pm: Congress reshuffles posts.

7.53 pm: Global economy may head for 'sub-par' growth, warns IMF

6.17 pm: Arvind Kejriwal releases AAP manifesto for the Lok Sabha election.

6.00 pm: Mumbai court found three people guilty of committing repeat offences in the Shakti Mills Complex gang rapes of a telephone operator and a photojournalist: PTI

5.43 pm: Chargesheet against ex-health minister of Jammu and Kahsmir in sexual assault case.

5.40 pm: Salman Khurshid files nomination for the Lok Sabha election. He is contesting from Farukkhabad constituency.

5.31 pm: Manish Tewarireplaces Ajay Maken as Congress party's media in-charge.

3.50 pm: The EC to take cognisance if it gets complaint about Sonia-Bukhari meet.

3.40 pm: Sonia Gandhi slams Nitish Kumar in Sasaram, asks voters not to trust those who frequently change side.

3.20 pm: After expelling Jaswant Singh, BJP asks his son Manvendra Singh, an MLA, not to campaign for his father or else he will also be shown the door.

3.15 pm: BJP leadership divided over Ram Temple issue. Four days to go for the polls, the party is yet to release its poll manifesto.

2:40 pm: Congress candidate from Noida Ramesh Tomar joins BJP

2.34 pm: LS poll candidate Rakhi Sawant lashes out at AAP opponent Mayank Gandhi 's 'sexist' slur.

2.33 pm: Congress candidate from Vadodara Madhusudan Mistry detained.

2.20 pm: Shiv Sena and MNS workers clash in Mumbai.

2.04 pm: BJP's primeministerial candidate Narendra Modi addresses a rally in Ghaziabad UP.

1:50 pm: Varun should use mind instead of heart: Maneka Gandhi

1:44 pm: "Nothing wrong in what I did",says detained Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry after vandalising Modi's posters

1:30 pm: Narendra Modi's opponent Madhusudan Mistry detained for pulling down his posters in Vadodara

12.37 pm: BJP puts pressureon Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra to quit the party.

12:30 pm: Sex workers to use NOTA in protest against government's apathy towards them

11.44 am: Maneka Gandhi hits out at Sonia Gandhi, says there has been no development in the State.

11:27 am: Congress's Gautam Budh Nagar candidate for Lok Sabha election - Ramesh Tomar - ditches party, joins BJP.

10:51 am: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf survives assassination bomb attempt: Police

10:30 am: Modi to address three Bharat Vijay rallies in UP, Haryana today

9.57 am: Congress MP from Andhra Ramachandra Rao indicted in US in bribery case.

9.56 am: Two killed, 12 injured as two trains collide in Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh.

9:55 am: Another powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocks northern Chile

9:47 am: IPL officials, owners and 12 players named in secret report to Supreme Court

9:25 am: Amethi officials reject Rahul Gandhi's residence proof application

9:16 am: Malaysian PM in Perth as Australia says search will go on for missing jet

9:00 am: Shooting at US army base, Multiple fatalities reported

9:00 am: Sharad Pawar praises MNS chief

8:50 am: BJP backs SM Krishna's RSS praise

8:45 am: Kumar Viswas slams Varun's comment on Amethi

8:25 am: NASA suspends cooperation with Russia except for ISS

8:00 am: Tsunami waves hit Japan after Chile quake

7:50 am: Beni Prasad Verma calls Narendra Modi biggest RSS goon, Rajnath Singh his slave

7:45 am: Mayawati to campaign for riot-accused Qadir Rana in Muzaffarnagar