Describing the Mahatma as a "yug purush (a great man)", Modi said he belonged to the whole world.
A five-time MP, Choudhary, formed his party, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), following his differences with the CPM leadership.
Kerry highlighted Abadi's readiness "to move forward rapidly on the oil agreements necessary for the Kurds, (and) on the representation of Sunnis in government."
Karthik Gowda is facing charges of rape, cheating and kidnap from a Kannada starlet.
Parkash Singh Badal urged the central government to review the procedure for fixing the minimum support price for crops to make it more remunerative.
The RJD has decided not to make any further statement on the leadership of the JD(U), Congress, RJD alliance in Bihar ahead of the byelections to the ten Assembly seats.
The comment comes in the wake of a report of assault on a woman who was first beaten up and then her private parts were smeared with chilli powder.
Nadal has been shunted off the main showcourt on Wednesday to make way for Frenchman Gael Monfils who has never made a grand slam final in almost a decade of trying.
Some of the key candidates include Congress's Rahul Gandhi, BJP leaders Varun Gandhi and RJD's Rabri Devi.
Vettel has rejected comparisons between his current dominance with Red Bull and the days when Ferrari and Schumacher had the sport in a stranglehold.
Four persons were killed and 13 others critically injured when the jeep they were travelling in collided head-on with a tanker in Haridwar district, police said on Tuesday.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica won the women's 200 meters in 22.17 seconds.
The Indian Navy said on Friday there were no likely survivors on the INS Sindhurakshak submarine which exploded,caught fire and sank in Mumbai early on Wednesday with 18 personnel on board.
The alertness and presence of mind shown by a top Mumbai Fire Brigade officer probably helped avert a second major disaster in the naval dockyard where the INS Sindhurakshak submarine sank after being rocked by an explosion followed by a fire in Mumbai on...
Disgraced former Madhya Pradesh minister Raghavji, in custody on the charge of sodomising his domestic help, on Monday demanded constitution of a medical board to examine him afresh while challenging a police report that declared him "medically fit".
