Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Jasodaben took a dip in the holy Ganga in Allahabad on Friday and performed puja. In the city to attend a community wedding event, Jasodaben, who is accompanied by her brother, also visited the Akshayvat tree and paid obeisance at the ‘Bade Hanuman’ temple. Modi[Read More…]
Gujarat is all set to face one of the toughest fights in the decades in this assembly election scheduled on December 9 and 14. While opinion polls conducted by different channels have anticipated BJP’s victory, it didn’t neglect the Congress’ huge influence that has been increasing by every passing day.[Read More…]
The proposed Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill is designed to protect the rights of depositors, the government said on Thursday. The bill, which seeks to deal with the insolvency of financial service providers, had been tabled in August in the Lok Sabha and has currently been referred to[Read More…]
Contradicting what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been saying on the Narmada issue, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that while he was heading the UPA government at the Centre, Modi who was Gujarat Chief Minister never discussed the Narmada issue with him whenever they met. He also[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday apologised for using the word “neech” (low) for Prime Minister Narendra Modi but maintained that he had not referred to him as “low-born”. “I never meant low-born. There is a difference in the English language between words ‘low’ and ‘’low-born’. But in[Read More…]
Veteran politician Sharad Yadav on Thursday said there was pressure from “all sides” to disqualify him from the Rajya Sabha, and that he knew it was a foregone conclusion. “I knew this (disqualification) is going to happen. Some media persons also wrote about it. I had mentally prepared myself for[Read More…]
In a last-minute bid to address anti-incumbency, BJP is mulling the option of soft projection of its national president Amit Shah as the chief minister candidate in Gujarat. In a high powered meeting held at the party’s Gujarat war-room, it was widely felt that while the Modi-Shah duo attracts immense[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday in a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Ram Mandir will be built “when Lord Rama wants it and Modi will not build the temple”. “As far as Ram Mandir is concerned (Modiji), it will be built when Lord Ram wants[Read More…]
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday dared rebel Congress legislators to resign from the assembly ahead of next year’s elections. “We know all who will resign. We will be happy to see if they resign as MLAs. That is why we have given enough time. If somebody has the[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, who played a major role in social engineering by roping in Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakore and Jignesh Mewani on the side of Congress in Gujarat, wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attack the party and Rahul Gandhi even more so that it will “ensure a[Read More…]
Their demands stonewalled for a long time by the state government, Anganwadi workers in Uttar Pradesh have devised a new way to put pressure on the powers that be. Amid chanting of hymns and drum beating, an Aanganwadi worker from Sitapur symbolically “married” a picture of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.[Read More…]
The BJP on Wednesday accused Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi of siding with “Owaisis and Jilanis” to oppose Ram temple in Ayodhya, and called the Congress leader a “devotee” of first Mughal emperor Babar and a “kin” of Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khilji. “Rahul Gandhi has teamed up with Owaisis,[Read More…]
BJP parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said his lecture on the Ram Mandir issue was cancelled by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) authorities because they feared his “powerful” arguments in favour of the temple. A talk by Swamy was scheduled to take place on Wednesday evening at Koyna Hostel in[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Congress of linking the Ram temple issue to the Lok Sabha elections and attacked senior leader Kapil Sibal’s arguments in the Supreme Court for deferring hearing the matter till after the 2019 polls. “Yesterday in the Supreme Court, a Congress MP Kapil[Read More…]
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday thanked BJP for pointing out mistakes in his tweet question on Tuesday over inflation, saying that “unlike” Prime Minister Narendra Modi he was “human” and did make the odd mistake. He asked the BJP to “please do keep it coming”. “For all my[Read More…]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said that it has served a notice to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh for questioning in its ongoing probe into a money laundering case. An ED official requesting anonymity told IANS: “The Palam Farms in Delhi’s Bijwasan[Read More…]
Even as programmes of several political leaders were cancelled in Gujarat in view of cyclone “Ockhi”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to go ahead with his three-day visit to poll-bound state starting Wednesday. Earlier, prediction of Ockhi hitting the shores of Surat and elsewhere in Gujarat by Tuesday midnight[Read More…]
The Congress on Tuesday hit back at BJP President Amit Shah over Ayodhya issue in the apex court, saying if a party is sought to be blamed for a lawyer representing a side in a case, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should be dismissed for having appeared for Dow Chemicals[Read More…]
Terming it a scam, the Congress on Tuesday asked whether Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will order an impartial judicial probe into the 22 lakh “ghost accounts” as claimed by his government, out of 89 lakh beneficiaries meant for farm loan waiver. “The Maharashtra Chief Minister and his government has[Read More…]
BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah for sidelining veterans like LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Yashwant Sinha. The actor-turned-politician criticized Modi and Shah — without naming them — for not responding to queries being raised in the national interest[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday dismissed as “wide off the mark” a new opinion polls findings that showed the Congress gaining heavily and fast catching up with the ruling party in Gujarat as well as closing the gap between the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday moved a step closer to be the Congress chief as he was the only candidate left in the fray in the election for the post after all 89 nominations filed in his favour were found to be valid on scrutiny. “A total of 89 nomination papers,[Read More…]
The ED on Tuesday said it has attached properties worth Rs 20 crore, including those of NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, in its ongoing probe in a money laundering case related to the new Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi. After attachment of properties worth Rs 20.41 crore under the Prevention of[Read More…]
As part of his strategy to put one question daily to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asked if the Bharatiya Janata Party’s government will be working only for the rich. In a ditty form, Gandhi flayed the adverse impact of demonetisation, Goods and Services[Read More…]
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting against the undemocratic style of functioning to save democracy a day after he was disqualified from the Rajya Sabha. “I am disqualified from the Rajya Sabha as the ‘mahagathbandan’ which was formed to defeat the NDA in Bihar[Read More…]