Polling for the third and final phase of civic body polls began on Wednesday amid tight security in Uttar Pradesh. It covers 233 urban bodies spread across 26 districts, including five municipal corporations of Bareilly, Saharanpur, Jhansi, Firozabad and Moradabad, an official said. Voting for 76 Nagar Palika Parishads and[Read More…]
A case was filed against former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in a Faizabad court on Tuesday for allegedly ordering firing on the ‘Kar Sewaks’ trying to storm the disputed structure in Ayodhya on November 2, 1990. The case was filed by Gayatri Devi, widow of Ramesh Kumar[Read More…]
Andolan Anamat Samiti (PAAS) to give reservations to the Patidar community. “If possible they (Congress) should public it. He (Rahul) is coming here tomorrow. Let him make the formula public,” Shah said at the India TV conclave. “They should come with a draft and let there be a debate among[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday urged people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the ongoing urban body polls and not to focus on the candidates. Addressing a public rally in Balrampur, Aditynath said people should focus on the party symbol “lotus” and not see[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his ‘hugplomacy’ jibe saying, it was the Congress leader who hugged the Chinese Ambassador when the Indian Army was in a stand off with Chinese troops in Doklam earlier this year. “When the Indian Army was standing eye-to-eye[Read More…]
Appealing to the Gujarat electorate as “son” of the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lashed out at the opposition Congress, saying that people of the state would not forgive those who are “insulting the son of Gujarat” who has never had a single blot on his political career.[Read More…]
The BJP on Monday announced its sixth list for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, declaring 34 candidates. The party has repeated most of the sitting MLAs and also given tickets to some senior members. The most noteworthy is the ticket given to Congress rebel MLA Tejashreeben Patel[Read More…]
Renowned journalist and former Union Minister Arun Shourie on Sunday alleged that there is too much centralisation of power in the Prime Minister’s Office because of the insecurity of the “top boss” Narendra Modi. He also said that “falsehood” was the “hallmark” of the Modi government and it has failed[Read More…]
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the new party President will be elected through a free and fair electoral process and that party workers felt a strong connect at a personal level with its Vice President Rahul Gandhi. “… there will be free and fair elections among Congress workers.[Read More…]
The Congress on Sunday released another list of 76 candidates for the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections. The names of 76 candidates were released for the second phase of elections. The Congress party on November 21 released its second list of 13 candidates for the elections. The Election Commission (EC) last[Read More…]
Panaji: After days of delay, the IFFI’s Indian Panorama jury will view the controversial film ‘S Durga’ on Monday evening, a jury member said on Sunday. “We have been informed by IFFI that the film will be screened at 6 p.m. on Monday,” the jury member said on the condition[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram: Amid protests against Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film “Padmavati”, the Congress’ Kerala unit on Sunday asked Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to ensure that the film is released in the state. Questioning the Chief Minister’s silence on the issue, state Congress president M.M. Hassan told IANS: “What baffles me is the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday said the word ‘dharm-nirpekshta’ (secular) is meaningless and those who use it are not aware of its true meaning. Speaking at the Times Lit Fest here, Ramdev said that the term they are looking for is ‘panth-nirpekshta’ (neutrality with respect to factions). “The[Read More…]
Chandigarh/Kolkata: Haryana BJP leader Suraj Pal Amu on Saturday threatened West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that she would meet the same fate as “Surpanakha”, a demoness from the epic Ramayana whose nose was cut off by Lakshman, a day after she asserted her state was ready to welcome Sanjay[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that he wants a “New India where you don’t get lynched for the food you eat and faith you hold dear and not the one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kind of ‘New India’”. Speaking at the Times Lit Fest here[Read More…]
Acclaimed writer Nayantara Sahgal was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award at a literature festival. A member of the Nehru-Gandhi family and a constant face in the protest against the alleged intolerance in the country, she fired a series of salvos at the ruling dispensation, even saying that the Narendra Modi[Read More…]
Four employees of Tripura Gramin Bank were kidnapped by unknown persons from southwestern Tripura, police said here on Saturday. The miscreants kidnapped the four Tripura Gramin Bank officials, including branch manager Tanumoy Bhattacharjee, 30, while they were returning to Agartala in a vehicle on Friday night, southern Tripura’s Gomati district[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday hit back at Rahul Gandhi for his “failed hugplomacy” jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the release of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, saying the Congress Vice President should stand with the country and not with the mastermind of the Mumbai massacre. “Rahul[Read More…]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is also the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) President, will not campaign for his party’s candidates in the Gujarat assembly polls. The party has decided to send its 20 star campaigners minus Nitish Kumar to Gujarat, a JD-U leader said on Saturday. The JD-U, an ally[Read More…]
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday expressed concern over the “unacceptably low” representation of women, OBCs, SC/STs in the higher judiciary and called for steps to remedy the situation. “There is unacceptably low representation of traditionally weaker sections such as OBCs, SCs and STs especially in the higher judiciary,” President[Read More…]
Two days after the noted politician and Congress leader Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi breathed his last, his teenaged son Priyadeep Dasmunshi penned a heartfelt note on his Facebook post. Priyadeep, who wish to take forward his father’s legacy in politics, displayed shock on how he was told to take his father’s[Read More…]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday said public sentiment were against the BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and her party can come to power if its workers made some efforts. “People in these states are under stress due to the BJP rule. It is party workers’[Read More…]
The Congress on Friday alleged that a company owned by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s personal secretary Vaibhav Dange has been getting funds from his own ministry and other PSUs and demanded he come clean on it. The BJP rejected the charges as “baseless”. The Congress also alleged that this “scam”[Read More…]
Kolkata: Taking a dig at RJD chief Lalu Prasad, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and veteran BJP leader Sushil Modi on Friday said the alliance between Nitish Kumar’s JD-U and his party was “natural” and the “unnatural” Nitish-Lalu partnership died “naturally”. In July, Nitish Kumar became Bihar Chief Minister for the[Read More…]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday threw enough hints that she is not averse to taking the lead in bringing together opposition parties on a single platform against the BJP in the next Lok Sabha election in 2019. The Trinamool Congress chief also stressed on “collective leadership” and[Read More…]