New Delhi: More regional parties have expressed their support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s protest against the Lt Governor with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) being the latest. JMM’S Working President and former Chief Minister Hemant Soren, in a tweet, said: I salute to the[Read More…]
Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy has won the Jayanagar assembly elections by defeating B N Prahlad of the BJP. The Congress got 54,457 votes, while the BJP got 51,568 votes. Sowmya Reddy leads by 12,781 votes At the end of the 11th round of counting, Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy leads by 12,781 in[Read More…]
New Delhi: Soon after rebel AAP legislator Kapil Mishra filed a plea in the Delhi High Court against state Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s low attendance in the assembly, Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh on Monday said he will file a petition seeking details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence in[Read More…]
Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday claimed that BJP ally and RLSP chief and Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha will join the Grand Alliance soon. If Upendra Kushwaha said ‘no’ to joining the Grand Alliance, his ‘no’ means ‘yes’. Try to understand it. He will join Grand[Read More…]
New Delhi: Quoting RBI figures, the Congress on Sunday said the Modi government has been exposed as 72.8 per cent people said income increased by zero per cent and 79.2 per cent said inflation has crushed them. RBI (Reserve Bank of India) survey exposes Modi government’s ‘Dhol Ki Poll’, Congress[Read More…]
Qingdao (China): India and China on Saturday made some fairly big announcements, including Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India, as he and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. The two leaders, who met a second time in just over a[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday sought an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh and others alleging that they colluded with Pakistan to influence Gujarat election process last year. Citing an RTI reply received from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on June[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Portfolios of the ministers in the JD-S-Congress coalition government in Karnataka were allocated on Friday, two days after the ministry was expanded. Governor Vajubhai Vala has allocated the portfolios to all the 27 cabinet ministers, including the Deputy Chief Minister of the Congress, on the advice of Janata Dal-Secular[Read More…]
New Delhi: Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government for protecting the corrupt, the Congress on Friday referred to Governor Ram Naik’s letter to the Chief Minister regarding a bribery demand accusation against a senior officer in the CMO. The BJP government was trying to protect the corrupt and penalise the innocent[Read More…]
New Delhi: Taking a dig at the Congress, BJP chief Amit Shah on Friday said that those who are elated over BJP losing eight bypolls recently forget that his party has wrested 14 states from its rivals and that it rules in 20 out of the 29 states in the[Read More…]
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: A miffed former Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson and Congress leader P.J. Kurien on Friday blamed former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy for not re-nominating him to the Rajya Sabha. Kurien told the media at his residence in Delhi that he will not blame K.M. Mani, whose Kerala Congress[Read More…]
Patna: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan was on Thursday shown black flags by protesters in his parliamentary constituency Hajipur in Bihar, police said. Over two dozen protesters belonging to the Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha waved black flags at the convoy of the Lok Janshakti Party supremo near a hotel in Hajipur,[Read More…]
Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir has issued a letter to Ashutosh Salil, DM of Chandrapur district in Maharashtra asking him to stop annual salary increment of those branch managers who have not completed their target to sanction the MUDRA loans. The letter issued on June 6 by[Read More…]
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh): Mounting a strong attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s on issues concerning farmers and youth, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday promised to waive farm loans in 10 days if his party is voted to power in Madhya Pradesh. Launching the Congress campaign in the state where[Read More…]
Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Wednesday wooed Bollywood glamour and India Inc., and sulking ally Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, in the party’s new initiative Sampark for Samarthan prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Accompanied by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Shah arrived at ‘Matoshri’, the Thackeray[Read More…]
New Delhi/Vijayawada: Five Lok Sabha MPs of the YSR Congress on Wednesday met Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to convey that they stand by their resignations and urged her to accept the same immediately. The MPs had submitted their resignations on April 6 — the last day of Budget session — to[Read More…]
Patna: Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh on Wednesday dubbed the protests by farmers in the country as a Congress conspiracy. The ongoing protests by farmers in some parts of the country are a Congress conspiracy, Giriraj Singh said at an event in Sheikhpura district.[Read More…]
Lucknow: Having vacated his sprawling official bungalow day back following the Supreme Court’s orders, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday hit the streets of the state capital on his high-end sports bicycle and went straight to the Gomti Rover Front, a dream project of his tenure, which[Read More…]
Patna: The Janata Dal (United) core committee met in Patna on Sunday ahead of a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance scheduled later this week, after which a senior party leader said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the face of the NDA in Bihar. Kumar, also the JD(U) national president, held[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Sunday formed four teams to look into allegation levelled by Congress that lakhs of bogus voters were registered in Madhya Pradesh. The EC has formed teams consisting of two members each to verify electoral rolls in Narela, Bhojpur, Hoshangabad and Seoni Malwa Assembly constituencies.[Read More…]
New Delhi: A united opposition needs to decide about its leadership sooner than later based on ground realities to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the next Lok Sabha elections, says senior Congress leader and former minister Salman Khurshid. He also strongly favours a pre-poll arrangement between all opposition[Read More…]
Patna: After JD-U and LJP, another BJP ally — Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) — on Saturday demanded a decision on which party will contest how many seats in of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, citing lack of coordination in the BJP-led NDA. RLSP chief and Union Minister of State for[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday asked the Congress to show guts and announce its candidates for the seven Delhi Lok Sabha seats for the 2019 general elections after Congress’ Delhi chief Ajay Maken ruled out any alliance with the Arvind Kejriwal-led party. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s media[Read More…]
Kolkata: Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday claimed the significantly lower voting percentage was responsible for the BJP’s defeat in two out of three Lok Sabha bypolls this week and said the party would introspect and analyse the reasons of the loss up to the booth level.[Read More…]
Kolkata: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said the Centre is looking at a ‘long term’ fix to the issue of the rise in petrol and diesel prices, adding that the solution lies with state governments also as they too levy their taxes. He said petrol prices were de-regulated during[Read More…]
