Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Saturday kicked off party’s campaign for ensuing Assembly elections by daring the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to name a Dalit as its chief ministerial candidate. Sounding the poll bugle at a public meeting at Mahabubnagar, he recalled that TRS chief K.[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 15 (IANS) Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former UP Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav, who recently floated his own outfit by the name of Samajwadi Secular Mocha (SSM) on Saturday said that his party would like to field Mulayam Singh Yadav on party ticket as the Lok Sabha candidate[Read More…]
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won unopposed 96 per cent of the Gram Panchayat and Panchayat Samiti seats and all the 18 Zilla Parishad seats in Tripura, a State Election Commission (SEC) official said. The by-elections to 3,386 seats — 3,207 Gram Panchayat seats, 161 Panchayat Samiti seats[Read More…]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah’s boast at the national executive meeting about the party ruling for 50 years may have been in keeping with his usual aggressive, bombastic style, but it has been interpreted in two contradictory ways. One was to see it as a sign of arrogance[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday threw hints that the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh could include the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “Today there is electric cycle… there are cycles having many pedals you can see on the streets of[Read More…]
Patna, Sep 15 (IANS) Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday questioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on his silence over the scams in the state. “U-turn Specialist Nitish Kumar is silent on Srijan Scam, Toilet Scam, Paddy Scam, Scholarship Scam, Dam Scam, MGNREGA Scam, Uterus Scam, Medicine Scam, Recruitment Scam, BPSC[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Sep 15 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday said the TRS owes an explanation to the people for imposing additional poll expenditure on Telangana by going for early elections to the state Assembly. He wanted to know why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) imposed early polls on the state[Read More…]
Joint Statement by All JNU Organisations on Disruption of JNUSU Election Counting Process by ABVP Condemn ABVP’s Hooliganism During JNUSU Election Counting Process! Unite Against Every Attempt by ABVP to Disrupt Conducting of the Counting! Counting for the JNUSU Elections 2018-19 has been suspended by the Election Committee (EC) following[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Counting of votes for the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) polls were stopped on Saturday when two principal contenders of an unnamed political group along with their supporters barged into a counting center and tried to snatch ballot boxes, the varsity election committee said. The[Read More…]
Panaji, Sep 15 (IANS) Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday headed to the national capital via a special chartered flight for further treatment and examination at the All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Parrikar, who is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer, also held meetings with Speaker Pramod Sawant[Read More…]
New Delhi/Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday while interacting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that he found TV to be an “effective way to spread the message of cleanliness”. “Four years ago, you (Modi) introduced the nation to the Swachh Bharat Mission. I too decided to[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the contribution of India’s ‘Nari Shakti’ (women power) in the Swachh Bharat Mission was immense. “The contribution of India’s Nari Shakti (women power) in the Swachh Bharat (clean India) Mission is immense,” Modi said while launching the ‘Swachhata[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Modi of maintaining “conspiratorial silence on fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, demanding to know who the “chief architect and protector of his escape” was. Party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala demanded an independent probe into the episode and asked: “Who is[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The CBI on Friday arrested an Under Secretary of Ayush Ministry R.K. Khatri on charges of receiving Rs 10 lakh bribe for clearing pending bills of the complainant and allow him to continue his work, an official said. Khatri, who has additional charge of Managing Director,[Read More…]
Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar alias Ravan, after spending 15 months in jail, was released from the Saharanpur jail on Friday, a day after the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-government ordered his release. Chandrashekhar was booked for his alleged role in last year’s caste violence in Saharanpur district, involving Dalits,[Read More…]
Kolkata, Sep 14 (IANS) Union Minister and senior BJP leader Harsh Vardhan on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was politically invincible and there was no one to throw a challenge to him in next year’s general elections. “There is no one who can beat Narendra Modi… I do not think[Read More…]
The Congress party on Friday asked the Kerala government to explain why service firm KPMG is being paid Rs 66 lakh to design a website of a state government organisation. The Congress had already expressed its reservation over the selection of the international company as consultant partner for rebuilding the[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 14 (IANS) Former Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) President Praveen Togadia on Friday accused the BJP of coming to power by promising a Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh but dumping the issue thereafter. Addressing a rally at the Janakpuri ground in Akbarpur, he said: “They always said that[Read More…]
Lalu Prasad Yadav’s eldest son and former Health Minister of Bihar, Tej Pratap Yadav may not be as active and a sharp politician as brother Tejashwi Yadav but is certainly a hope in disguise. The multitasker has been in news for not just for his divergent character but also for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday appointed nine new AICC secretaries. In a statement, party General Secretary Ashok Gehlot said: “Zenith Sangma has been appointed as secretary for Arunachal Pradesh, Amapareen Lyngdoh for Mizoram, Charles Pyngrope for Manipur, Victor Keishing for Meghalaya, Pradyut Bordoloi for Nagaland,[Read More…]
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Well-known Telugu film producer Bandla Ganesh and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLC Bhupati Reddy on Friday joined the Congress. They formally joined the party in the presence of Congress President Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. Telangana state Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy and some senior leaders[Read More…]
Patna, Sep 14 (IANS) Bihar’s seasoned politician and Lok Sabha member Pappu Yadav says that jailed veteran politician Lalu Prasad has become irrelevant in politics and his main backer, the powerful Yadav youth, are desperately looking for a new face outside the Lalu family to lead them. “The era of Lalu’s[Read More…]
The Chief Election Commission on Thursday said that EVMs used for DUSU election were not supplied by them to the Delhi University. The commission stated that it “seems the university has procured these machines privately”. Earlier today, the Congress’ students’ wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) whose candidates for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) A survey of over 19,000 people across the country revealed that most Indians blame politicians for misleading the people. The survey conducted by Ipsos said that 56 per cent respondents “blame politicians for misleading people, 47 per cent believed that it is the media that is[Read More…]
Amid reports that the RSS is planning to invite Congress President Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders to its meeting, MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said those accepting the invite will be inviting destruction. The Hyderabad MP ruled out accepting the RSS invitation, saying he would never do the[Read More…]
