The government on Monday strictly asked TV channels not to air advertisements selling and promoting condoms because these are “indecent especially for children” and can create “unhealthy practices” among them. “It has been brought to the notice of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting that some channels carry advertisements of[Read More…]
Team India skipper Virat Kohli tied the knot with Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma on Monday, watched by family members and close friends. “Today we have promised each other to be bound in love forever,” Kohli tweeted. “We are truly blessed to share the news with you. This beautiful day will[Read More…]
The BJP on Monday questioned why it took the Congress over 48 hours to accept that a “hush, hush” meeting with the Pakistani envoy and a former Pakistani Minister did take place at Mani Shankar Aiyar’s residence, attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Vice President Hamid Ansari and[Read More…]
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Monday said the days of physical banks were ending, and that banks unable to make a transition to data analytics and digital banking would die by 2020. “You will see a huge transformation towards digital payments by 2020. My view is that 2020 will[Read More…]
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed grief at the “falsehood” and “canards” being spread by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “score political points,” on Monday. The former PM in a statement has said: “Modi is setting a dangerous precedent by his insatiable desire to tarnish every constitutional office, including that[Read More…]
In a highly controversial remark, union minister of state for human resource development, Satyapal Singh on Sunday has said that “No boy will ready to marry a girl who comes to the mandap (wedding stage) in jeans.” Notably, the minister shared the stage with chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur.[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi, who is putting up a spirited campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat, was on Monday elected the President of the Congress, taking over from his mother who had helmed the country’s oldest party for 19 long years. The 47-year-old Rahul will formally take over the reins[Read More…]
Hitting out at Narendra Modi for dragging Pakistan into the Gujarat elections, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that rather than talking about foreign countries in his election campaign speeches in Gujarat the Prime Minister should say something about the state. “The Prime Minister talks sometimes about Pakistan[Read More…]
The Congress on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to former Vice President Hamid Ansari and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for insinuating that they were colluding with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the Gujarat elections. Perceiving a “clear defeat” in Gujarat, the Prime Minister was “frustrated[Read More…]
The Shiv Sena on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of resorting to “histrionics” and pulling the ongoing poll campaign for the Gujarat elections to “a new low”. The critical ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party said that Modi “dug up the graves of the Mughal regime” in his[Read More…]
Pakistan on Monday rebuffed allegations of a secret meeting between Congress leaders and its High Commissioner in New Delhi, saying India should stop “dragging” Islamabad into its electoral debate and termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark as “baseless and irresponsible”. “India should stop dragging Pakistan into its electoral debate[Read More…]
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for spinning “unsubstantiated and unbelievable” stories against political opponents. Sinha’s comments came a day after Modi said Congress leaders met the Pakistani High Commissioner. “Sir! Just to win elections anyhow, and that too at the fag end of the process,[Read More…]
Debuting on screen in British India, appearing in some of Indian cinema’s greatest classics and still present — over eight decades later — in the hearts of a vast multitude of fans with whom he remains connected over social media, Dilip Kumar is not just Bollywood’s oldest living star but[Read More…]
Accusing the Congress of indulging in “politics of caste and appeasement”, BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Congress decision to support Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani is a pre-planned move to take elections towards this purpose. He alleged that the Congress “must be aware of Mewani’s links with[Read More…]
The Congress on Sunday dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order an impartial probe into the note-ban decision that the opposition party dubbed the “biggest scam ever and the largest money-laundering scheme”. “In September 2016 (before demonetisation announced on November 8, 2016), a whopping Rs 5,88,600 crore was deposited in[Read More…]
The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) on Saturday called Delhi government’s decision to cancel the licence of Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, after it erroneously declared a newborn dead, “irrational and autocratic”. The DMA added that the government should have waited for the report of Delhi Medical Council (DMC) which would be[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his attack on the Congress party on Saturday, this time saying that the party was asking who Modi’s mother and father are. Addressing a campaign rally on the first phase polling day, Modi quoted a Congress worker, Salman Nizami, as questioning his ancestry. Modi, campaigning[Read More…]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday slammed the Congress party’s Gujarat poll manifesto as one of “fiscal impossibility” and its hope of winning as a “political improbability”. “Having no model of development, the Congress Party manifesto is one of fiscal impossibility,” Jaitley said. Jaitley in a Facebook post said the[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wished Congress President Sonia Gandhi on her 70th birthday. “Birthday greetings to Congress President… I pray for her long life and good health,” Modi said in a tweet. The Congress party also wished Gandhi. “Compassionate, hardworking, selfless. Calm and composed, yet dignified and strong.[Read More…]
Over 30 per cent ballotting was registered till afternoon in Gujarat’s first phase Assembly elections, as enthusiastic voters queued up in large numbers amid rising complaints of malfunctioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The Election Commission also received complaints of EVMs being connected to Bluetooth or WiFi from Porbandar. By noon,[Read More…]
The Congress party on Saturday urged the Election Commission to look into the malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines as Gujarat began its first phase polling. Senior party leader from the state Ahmed Patel requested quick action. “There are reports of EVM malfunctioning in several polling stations. Request the Election Commission[Read More…]
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday received a never-before welcome in Gujarat’s Anand during the high-octane campaigning in the poll-bound state. A massive crowd can be seen cheering for the Congress president with flashing the lights from their phones and chanting ‘Congress aave che’. Earlier in the evening, Rahul stopped[Read More…]
Visible enthusiasm among voters marked the first phase of Gujarat election on Saturday as large queues lined up outside 24,689 polling booths. The Election Commission said it received several complaints against malfunctioning EVMs and VVPATs, while the Model Code of Conduct was also violated at a few places. In the[Read More…]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh on Friday criticised BJP over the viral video in which a man was seen being brutally hacked to death and set on fire for allegedly committing “love jihad” and said that the manner in which the ruling BJP was functioning, the majority can[Read More…]
Terming it a scam, Congress on Friday accused the BJP government in Gujarat and the Narendra Modi-led Central government of misspending Rs 10,651 crore worth foreign exchange in the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) and demanded a Supreme Court-monitored inquiry by the CBI in the matter. The party also called[Read More…]