Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and Health Minister Mangal Pandey are among the three candidates whose names were announced for the Bihar Legislative Council polls by the ruling BJP on Sunday. Sanjay Paswan, a former Union Minister and Dalit face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar, is[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari on Sunday accused the AAP and the Congress of trying to “defame” his party and alleged that they were disturbing the country’s social fabric. Addressing the media along with Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, Tiwari said: “The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress are[Read More…]
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh): Invoking Dalit icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar on his 127th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday sought to woo Dalits and tribals, saying he could become PM because of Ambedkar’s contributions to the society and exhorted Maoists to join the mainstream for development and assured that he would[Read More…]
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Friday demanded President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh and said this was necessary to restore the rule of law in the state. Addressing a press conference here, party leader Kironmoy Nanda said the time had come to bid the Yogi Adityanath government good bye. Referring to[Read More…]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district. “Hon PM Sir, there isn’t a day when we don’t hear you speak about things that are important to you yet[Read More…]
New Delhi: Hundreds of Congress workers assembled at the India Gate here on the call of party chief Rahul Gandhi to protest against the “silence” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rape incidents in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua and Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, and seek justice for the victims. Several senior[Read More…]
Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver justice that Tamil Nadu is looking for amid growing political turmoil over the Cauvery water issue. As Modi arrived here on Thursday, Kamal tweeted a video and shared an open letter to the Prime Minister via social media.[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday said the option of moving an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra were still open. “We are very concerned about what is happening (in the SC). The issues, which were raised by four SC Judges, have not been addressed yet. The option[Read More…]
Jaipur: The people of Rajasthan have lost faith in the BJP government, Congress General Secretary Ashok Gehlot said on Thursday. “Whenever BJP men try to reach out to the people in rural areas, they have to face public ire,” Gehlot told the media. The Congress leader also accused the Rajasthan government[Read More…]
Thiruvidanthai (Tamil Nadu): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his “bold action” in meeting the country’s critical military requirements were contrary to the Congress-led UPA government’s “laziness, incompetence or perhaps some hidden motives” that damaged India’s defence. Inaugurating the DefExpo 2018 on East Coast Road near Chennai, he blasted the[Read More…]
Kolkata: Accusing the Congress and CPI-M of ganging up with the BJP for the coming panchayat polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked the two parties whether they supported the saffron outfit’s ideology in the state. “We want one to one fight against BJP, because it is[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress will finalise the candidates for the May 12 Karnataka elections on Friday and the list is likely to be announced on the same day. The screening committee meetings are over and the party’s Central Election Committee will finalise the candidates for the 224 assembly seats on Friday,[Read More…]
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder member Kumar Vishwas has been removed as the party in-charge of election-bound Rajasthan, the party announced on Wednesday. AAP leader Ashutosh made the announcement and said National Treasurer Deepak Bajpai had been made the new in-charge. Kumar Vishwas has had a rocky relationship[Read More…]
Washington: British banks must severe ties with Kremlin-linked tycoons if they want continued access to American financial institutions, the US has said as it ratcheted up its efforts to block Russian industrialists from doing business in the West. Sigal P. Mandelker, a top US Treasury official in London to meet[Read More…]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fast on Thursday against the washout of the second edition of the budget session of Parliament that ended on April 6 due to protests by opposition parties. “The Prime Minister will observe a fast even while engaged in his official duty and official engagements,”[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Chartered Accountant of Congress leader P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram on an Enforcement Directorate plea seeking cancellation of his bail in the INX media money laundering case. The court has listed the matter for hearing on August 16.[Read More…]
New Delhi: The income of the BJP increased by 81.18 per cent to Rs 1,034.27 crore while that of the Congress decreased by 14 per cent to Rs 225.36 crore between 2015-16 and 2016-17, a report released on Tuesday said. According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report, seven[Read More…]
Patna: Over a dozen of people were injured on Tuesday in a violent clash in Bihar during the “Bharat Bandh” called by various groups to protest against reservation policies, police said. Supporters, mostly upper castes youths, blocked roads and forcibly enforced the nationwide shutdown in Ara town, Bhojpur district. “More[Read More…]
New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Congress screening committee began meeting in the national capital to finalise the party’s candidates for the May 12 Karnataka elections, a party official said on Monday. “The screening committee is going through the applications to shortlist the candidates for the state assembly elections. The list will be submitted[Read More…]
Lucknow: The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday installed a statue of Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar in a Budaun village painted saffron, unlike the usual blue. The statue of the architect of the Indian Constitution in Dugraiyya village, which was vandalised some time back, was replaced with this new one. The[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the panchayat elections in West Bengal, rejecting a BJP plea for rescheduling them and deploying paramilitary forces. A bench of Justice R.K. Agrawal and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, however, granted liberty to the aggrieved candidates to approach the state Election[Read More…]
Bengaluru: AICC president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday guaranteed nullification of contractual employment of safai karamcharis all over India if his party came to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rahul spent about 15 minutes associating with a gathering of safai karamcharis – pourakarmikas as they are known in Karnataka –[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday accused the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) of fanning Dalit violence in various parts of the country for political gains. “Bhimrao Ambedkar said Dalit movement should not be violent. But some parties like the Congress,[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram: With Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery river water sharing row with Karnataka hotting up, a few IPL matches of the present season, which got underway on Saturday, might be held in Kerala. The matches that could be held in Kerala include those involving Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday slammed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for forming four governments in as many years, saying he played with people’s mandate. “Four governments in four years can’t be a mistake… It’s playing with the mandate of the people of Bihar,” said Tejashwi — a[Read More…]
