New Delhi: Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi who slammed opposition attempts at unity as based on hatred against him, Congress on Tuesday said he has a mindset of conflict and that in the larger interest of the nation, it was necessary to remove the BJP government. Accusing Modi[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday launched a mobile app for citizens to report any violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during elections. The app, called cVIGIL, launched by Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat, is set to be used in the forthcoming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress’ NSUI student wing filed a police complaint here on Tuesday against BJP President Amit Shah accusing him of criminal activities. The National Students Union of India said that similar complaints had been filed against Shah in 100 districts across 28 states on Tuesday. Lawlessness is taking[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has directed Mumbai Police to register a case against the person who threatened to harm Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi’s daughter through a vicious message on his Twitter handle, a ministry official said on Tuesday. The ministry also asked microblogging site Twitter to furnish details[Read More…]
New Delhi: Expressing confidence that voters will repose faith in the BJP in the 2019 general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed opposition attempts at unity, saying that hatred against him is the sole binding force behind these moves. In an interview with the ‘Swarajya’ magazine, the Prime[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday, July 2, addressed gathering in Lucknow, asking the Mayor and Chairperson of the city to inspect the city twice a day in order to attain the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission. CM Yogi instructed the MPs, Mayors and District Magistrates of the[Read More…]
The Delhi BJP harshly criticised Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the issue of water supply in the capital, stating that neighbouring state Haryana has been providing more water to Delhi. Delhi BJP’s chief Manoj Tiwari said in a statement that “Kejriwal ji is a liar. He speaks a lie[Read More…]
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, July3, granted extension in interim protection from arrest to senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram in the INX Media case till August 1. Justice A.K. Pathak directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to take any coercive action against Chidambaram till August 1. Meanwhile,[Read More…]
Kuvarji Bavaliya, a senior Gujrat Congress leader and Jasdan MLA resigned from the Congress party on Tuesday, July 3. As per media reports, he was apparently unhappy with the party because of which he have his resignation this morning. Recently when Congress had held a meeting to appoint presidents of[Read More…]
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik suspended the former MLA Naveen Nanda from the party on Monday, July 2, after receiving the reports of Nanda being indulged in malicious incidents in Kolkata. BJD secretary Bijay Nayak said in a statement that it was reported that[Read More…]
Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan has approved one per cent reservation to five communities including Gujjars under the most backward classes (MBC) category on Monday, July 2. The mandate came after Gujjar leaders threatened to stage a protest during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Jaipur. The BJP[Read More…]
Bihar’s former health minister Tej Pratap Yadav, the eldest son of RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav, targeted PM Modi during a show ‘Tea with Tej Pratap at Mahua’. On Sunday, while his visit to his assembly constituency Mahua, Tej Pratap was witnessed with his electoral mode on in full energy[Read More…]
Kolkata: The Congress and Left parties need to come together in a political front or on a common platform in West Bengal to effectively fight the murder of democracy by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the communal agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), says a senior Congress party[Read More…]
New Delhi/Jaipur: BJP Rajya Sabha member Madanlal Saini was on Friday appointed the party’s Rajasthan President after two and half months of deliberations between Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and party President Amit Shah. BJP President Amit Shah has appointed Madanlal Saini as Rajasthan BJP chief with immediate effect, BJP General[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi’s ruling AAP on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has only repackaged the whole redevelopment project in the city, involving cutting down of over 17,000 fully grown trees, while the actual mastermind is the Congress. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj told the media here[Read More…]
Vadodara/Ahmedabad: Three senior ruling BJP legislators from Vadodara district came out in the open late on Wednesday evening expressing their resentment against the State government and claimed more than a dozen others were with them, hours after Chief Minister Vijay Rupani flew out the country on a six-day tour. Three[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday said BJP was raising the Robert Vadra issue just to divert attention from the questions being raised against the Narendra Modi government over 4Ms — Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallya and Mehul Choksi. Days after the I-T Department served notice to Robert Vadra[Read More…]
New Delhi: Keen to further augment opposition unity in the run-up to the 2019 general elections, Congress may opt against fielding a candidate for the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman and work with other parties outside the NDA to put up a common candidate. Informed sources said the combined[Read More…]
Mumbai: Referring to suicides in Maharashtra by farmers and others, the Shiv Sena on Monday pointedly asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Is this your promised ‘Achhe Din’? Blaming the BJP-led governments at the centre and in Maharashtra, the Sena said that all these people took the extreme step of ending[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday recalled how the Indira Gandhi government had imposed a phoney Emergency and turned democracy into a constitutional dictatorship about more than 40 years back. It was a ‘phoney emergency’ on account of proclaimed policy that Indira Gandhi was indispensable to India and[Read More…]
New Delhi: The BJP was pulling out of its alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, the party’s general secretary Ram Madhav said here today. It has become untenable for the BJP to continue in the alliance government in the state, Madhav said at a press conference. He said the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who were shifted to hospitalised during their hunger strike over the AAP government’s standoff with Lt. Governor Anil Baijal, were discharged on Tuesday. Sisodia announced his recovery on Twitter before getting discharged. With doctor’s care and your[Read More…]
Patna: Amid growing restlessness over seat sharing for the 2019 elections among the allies of the BJP-led NDA in Bihar, a senior BJP leader on Monday said the party would contest from all Lok Sabha seats it won last time in the state. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Rajender[Read More…]
New Delhi: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday warned social media companies against misusing users’ data to influence the outcome of elections, saying this will not be tolerated. Also, the government was awaiting the report of the Justice Srikrishna Committee on data protection and law, said Prasad, who is[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday blamed both the BJP-led Central government and Delhi’s ruling AAP for the rift between the IAS officers and the Delhi government. If the relation between the government of Delhi and the bureaucracy is not satisfactory, we feel that it is not only the Central[Read More…]