With the Lok Sabha elections nearing Patna Sahib Seat has become the most talked constituency of Bihar. Now, when it is almost clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not considering the present MP Shatrughan Sinha to give a ticket to fight from this constituency, then the question arises that who[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has indicated signs of cabinet expansion after the entry of political strategist Prashant Kishor in JDU. After the resignation of social welfare minister Manju Verma, the number of ministers in the Bihar government has remained 28. While 36 ministers can be inducted in the cabinet. Nitish Kumar[Read More…]
BJP Godda MP, Nishikant Dubey is facing a harsh public lash after he shared a picture with one of his party workers, during the inauguration of a bridge in Kanbhara, Jharkhand. One of his party workers washed his feet in a religious ceremony and drank the water afterward. Dubey himself[Read More…]
The BJP central leadership’s attempts to form a consensus between party MLAs and alliance partners in Goa over alternate leadership due to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s illness remained inconclusive on Sunday. Allocation of portfolios held by Parrikar could take place in the next few days, a ruling alliance Minister said.[Read More…]
Accusing the state’s Congress government of encouraging radical elements, former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday claimed there was a plot to assassinate him and his son Sukhbir Badal. “I have been informed by the police about a plot to assassinate me and my son. But we neither[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi for visiting mosques and temples. “Rahulji is visiting temples, Modiji is visiting mosques. Nation building can’t be done by going to temples and mosques but by[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 16 (IANS) BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday took on Bhim Army leader Chandra Shekhar aka Ravana, saying she can “never have a relation with these sort of people”. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also made it clear that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) must be given a fair[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday visited AIIMS to inquire about the health of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer. “Also spoke to the doctors who are supervising his treatment. I pray for his good health and quick recovery,”[Read More…]
Landslide victory for ‘Left Unity’ in Jawaharlal Nehru University students union election 2018.The United Left is cruising to a massive victory! In a historic setback, ABVP fails to open its account in the JNUSU Council for the first time since 1991. Final statistics for the central panel (after counting of[Read More…]
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…]
