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New Delhi, April 1 : Automobile manufacturer Maruti Suzuki Tuesday reported a decline of 1.4 percent in its total sales for 2013-14 at 1,155,041 units from 1,171,434 units sold in the previous fiscal.

According to the company, domestic sales during the year ended March 31, 2014, marginally grew at 0.3 percent at 1,053,689 units from 1,051,046 units in 2012-13.

Exports during the period under review fell by 15.8 percent at 101,352 units from 120,388 units shipped out in 2012-13.

The Congress-led UPA government failed to meet its both the revised estimate and Budget estimate targets for fiscal deficit for the first 11 months of current financial year, fresh official data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) revealed.

According to newly released data, the difference between the government's revenue and expenditure in the first eleven month of 2013-14 touched 114 per cent of its revised target of Rs 5.24 lakh crore.

New Delhi, April 1 : AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday began a week-long campaign for the Lok Sabha election in the capital, attacking both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP star Narendra Modi.

The former Delhi chief minister also said while campaigning in Chandni Chowk constituency that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wanted early assembly polls in Delhi.

Asked why Modi had branded him "a Pakistani agent" and an "AK-49", Kejriwal shot back: "Why doesn't Modi talk about issues I have raised instead of calling me a Pakistani agent?

Mumbai, April 1: The granting of new bank licences has no link with politics and the process is purely economic and regulatory, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said Tuesday.

"This (issue of bank licence) is not in any way a political process, it is an economic and regulatory process and is to be seen as distant and different (from politics)," Rajan told media persons here after announcing the RBI's monetary policy.

Los Angeles, April 1 : Singer Kylie Minogue cried herself to sleep every night after splitting from Spanish model Andres Velencoso.

The "Sexercise" singer has said that she she isn't over her last year's decision to part ways with her partner of five years. However, she is moving on with her life and is happy that they have remained on good terms, reports contactmusic. com.

Asked whether she was still going through heartbreak, she said: "I could be, yeah. I could be for sure. It's not that long ago. I'm past the crying every night stage."

Mumbai, April 1 :  Actress Meera Chopra, seen in "Gang Of Ghosts", is not ready to shoot intimate scenes for the screen and she says she has restrained herself from taking up any film offers which require her to go beyond her comfort zone.

"I am not comfortable doing intimate scenes. I am not comfortable wearing very skimpy clothes, or wearing a bikini... so I have restrained myself from taking offers which have intimate scenes, and I hope I can stick to that," Meera said here.