Patna: Senior Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Road Construction Minister Ilyas Hussain has been disqualified from the Bihar Legislative Assembly, Hussain was awarded five years in jail by a CBI court in the so-called Bitumen scam that occurred nearly 26 years ago between 1992-93. Hussain, a prominent Muslim[Read More…]
Uttarakhand Municipal Election Results: Independent candidates have won more number of mayor posts than the Congress and BJP in Uttarakhand civic polls. Tanakpur – Vipin Kumar (Independent) Ukhimath – Vijay Singh (BJP) Champawat – Vijay Verma (Congress) Gaja – Meena Khati (BJP) Banbasa – Renu Agarwal (Independent) Chinyalisaur – Bina[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti abused Sudarshan TV anchor during a live debate. Bharti can be seen using derogatory words for the female anchor and made various allegations against the newsperson. Prior to the latest incident of allegedly insulting news anchor earlier, there had been[Read More…]
In a major political development on Tuesday evening, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) sitting parliamentarian from Chevella, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy resigned from the party. Following the resignation, Reddy sent a 3-page letter to TRS party office. Konda also submitted resignation as the Lok Sabha MP. In his 3-page letter, Konda stated[Read More…]
New Delhi, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday condemned the chili powder attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying such acts are not acceptable. “Heard that someone has thrown chili powder on Kejriwal. I condemn it,” Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari told reporters. He said that such acts[Read More…]
Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed the Congress governments for repeatedly “cheating farmers” by making “fake promises” on their loan waiver schemes and transferring the money to their cronies who were not eligible for the benefit. “The Congress keeps talking about farmers. What has it done[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday slammed the Sangh Parivar-led forces and the Congress in Kerala for turning Sabarimala into a battlefield. “Sabarimala is being used for political gains by the Sangh, and the Congress has also fallen for it,” Vijayan told the media here as he read[Read More…]
In a press conference in Indore, Sushma Swaraj confirmed that she will not contest 2019 General Elections owing to her health reasons. Swaraj is a BJP Member of Parliament from Vidisha constituency and currently heads the Ministry of External Affairs in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime. Madhya Pradesh: BJP MLA[Read More…]
San Francisco, A US federal judge has stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the country’s southern border illegally. US District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments on Monday night in San Francisco, NBC News reported. The request was[Read More…]
Ahead of Rajasthan assembly elections, Congress has fielded former Rajasthan Congress president BD Kalla from the Bikaner (West) assembly constituency against BJP’s Gopal Joshi. Earlier, Congress had dropped Kalla in the first list on the ground that he lost from the constituency twice in a row. However, party has fielded[Read More…]
Bhartiya Janata Party‘s MLA from Nagda-Khachrod, Dilip Shekhawat, was greeted with a garland made of shoes. The incident occurred while Mr Shekhawat was campaigning for the upcoming assembly elections. The state of Madhya Pradesh is set to undergo elections on 28 November 2018 in 230 constituencies. The current Chief Minister of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said on Tuesday democracy in India was “crying” as government officials interfere with the CBI – the latest being revelations that NSA Ajit Doval had attempted to interfere in a case relating to the agency. “A[Read More…]
Digvijaya Singh, senior Congress leader, challenged India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis to take action against him in the Elgar Parishad case. His words came in response to Pune police’ statement regarding the seizure of a letter in connection[Read More…]
New Delhi: Professor Ratanlal, a founding member and National General Secretary of Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) welcomes the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party merger with LJD. Speaking with Newsd, Ratanlal said, ” We welcome all the like-minded parties to join LJD and strengthen the Grand Alliance in Bihar in order to defeat[Read More…]
Actor turned politician Pawan Kalyan declared that his political outfit ‘Janasena’ will not contest the upcoming Telangana assembly elections. However, the party would be focusing on contesting the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for next year. During a media interaction on Monday, Pawan stated that “Had the Assembly elections been held[Read More…]
BJP MLA from Ramgarh, Gyan Dev Ahuja was seen allegedly distributing money to the supporters and hence was booked for violating the model code of conduct. It happened while he was rallying before filling his nomination as an independent candidate today. “FIR was lodged with Banipark Police Station under sections of[Read More…]
LIVE UPDATES: Uttarakhand, these are the Results for Mayor/Chairman (Total: 84 seats): Results declared – 83 BJP – 34, Congress – 25, Independent – 23, BSP -1 Uttarakhand, these are the Trends/Results for Ward-Members (Total: 1,064 seats): Trends available so far – 37 BJP – 19; Congress – 14, Independent – 4[Read More…]
Amethi: Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Monday announced sops for Amethi, the parliamentary constituency of Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Targeting the Congress leader, she said he was bluffing all along, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of wrong-doings while he himself could not ring in development in his own parliamentary[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi’s ruling AAP on Monday moved the Election Commission protesting “fraudulent” deletion of voter names, alleging that some of its officers used “an inaccurate list of deleted voters” for inspection. Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) national spokesperson Raghav Chadha, in a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat,[Read More…]
Kolkata: The much talked about meeting of parties opposed to the BJP to strategise against the saffron party in the next Lok Sabha elections has been postponed and may now be held after the current Assembly elections and before the start of the winter session of Parliament, Andhra Pradesh Chief[Read More…]
Narsinghpur (Madhya Pradesh): Taking a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi, BJP President Amit Shah on Monday said that the opposition leader was afflicted with “Modiphobia” and that is why he takes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name 44 times in his 22 minute election speech. “Rahul Gandhi nowadays is doing[Read More…]
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Monday said the state government had sought details from its Maharashtra counterparts about its decision to grant reservation benefits to the Maratha community to find out if the Patidar community could be given a quota here. Rupani, who was on an official visit[Read More…]
Panaji: Uncollected garbage strewn on Goa’s beaches, and a tender to appoint an agency to clean them, triggered a row in the ruling BJP-led coalition government on Monday. Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar slammed Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and Deputy Speaker Michael Lobo, who alleged a scam in a new tender[Read More…]
The major opposition party in Gujarat, Congress has launched preparations for the parliamentary elections scheduled next year (2019) by appointing new office-bearers and executive committee for Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. Gujarat Congress President Amit Chavda has been seen preparing for the upcoming battle and the latest list is a step for building the core[Read More…]
Former Union Minister and senior leader Yashwant Sinha on Monday, took to Twitter and stated himself as ‘Dalit’ and asked Prime Minister Modi, “Why is Modi unfair to me?”. Yashwant Singh tweeted after PM Modi called former Congress Chief Sitaram Kesri a ‘Dalit’ during a rally. Prime Minister Narendra Modi[Read More…]