Rejecting exit polls that gave BJP a clear lead in Uttar Pradesh, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed his alliance with the Samajwadi Party is winning the state. “We will win in Uttar Pradesh. Exit polls projections in Bihar were wrong. We will talk on 11 March,” he said.[Read More…]
After the exit polls suggested Modi wave in Uttar Pradesh and BJP making noteworthy gains in Uttarakhand and Manipur, while retaining Goa on Thursday, the state BJP seems to be in mood for early polls in Gujarat to continue the victory trend. BJP national president Amit Shah, accompanied by Chief[Read More…]
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday pursued the Central government’s intrusion concerning the recent trend of incidents involving fishermen being killed and detained by neighboring countries after they allegedly drifted into international waters. Appealing for a special assistance package to ensure justice for fishermen, he says that they are living[Read More…]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to miss the counting day on Saturday as she will be traveling abroad for medical treatment. The counting of votes will be held on March 11. Notably, Sonia also was seen not campaigning in the assembly elections including UP. However, Rahul organized Congress’s election[Read More…]
With exit polls predicting a hung Assembly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday did not completely rule out a post-poll tie-up with the BSP to prevent BJP from coming to power in the state. As exit polls indicated the BJP emerging as the largest single party in the[Read More…]
The BJP is likely to form government in Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur while Congress may return in Punjab, according to exit poll results of the five states. The safforn party, however, is expected to fall short of majority in Uttar Pradesh. Interestingly, amid prediction of a hung assembly in UP by[Read More…]
Tribals in Jharkhand have adopted a unique way to protest chief minister Raghubar Das’ anti-tribal policies and decisions. Locals purify any place wherever Das pays homage to tribal freedom fighters, claiming the CM’s presence pollutes the “holy area”, Hindustan Times reported. On Tuesday, a tribal community, under the banner of[Read More…]
Srinagar and Anantnag parliament seats would go to polls on April 9 and 12 respectively, Election Commission of India said on Thursday. The Anantnag seat had fallen vacant in June 2016 after Mehbooba Mufti, the present Chief Minister, had resigned as Lok Sabha member following her election as MLA from[Read More…]
Delhi government will construct 11,000 toilets by the end of the next finacial year towards making the national capital open defecation-free. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, while presenting the budget in the Assembly, said the AAP government has prepared a sanitation plan based on a survey done by the Delhi[Read More…]
Sixty percent of voters cast their ballot in Uttar Pradesh and over 83 per cent votes were cast in final phase of the Manipur Assembly polls on Wednesday. Voting for the last phase covering 40 seats in Uttar Pradesh and 22 Assembly constituencies in Manipur began on Wednesday, with all[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced a scheme for giving loans up to Rs 1 crore to small and marginal fishermen for buying modern boats so that they can venture into the deep sea for a better catch. “We are bringing a scheme for poor fishermen, who cannot go[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the clean India mission has become a mass movement and over 100 districts across the country have become open defecation free (ODF). “I am glad that the Swachh Bharat Mission is a mass movement, with over 100 districts now open defecation free,”[Read More…]
CM Arvind Kejriwal and PM Modi has always been in a verbal battle on social media and otherwise. Political or administrative, Kejriwal is often found reacting to the BJP-led government’s decisions, much of it on Twitter. On International Women’s Day, Delhi Chief Minister had a message for PM Modi. He pleas[Read More…]
The seventh and last phase of Uttar Pradesh polls is happening on Wednesday. People of 40 constituencies are going to vote in this election, one of which is PM Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency: Varanasi. The anticipated polling was backed up by a series of rally and campaign from various leaders[Read More…]
A day after making a ‘sexiest’ comment on former First Lady Michelle Obama admiring utensils while cooking in her kitchen, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has come with another remark that is likely to take the internet by storm. Addressing a convention of Congress workers at Ram Lila Maidan, Rahul[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcements yet to see the light of day even after 18 months as Bihar still awaits the bounty of Rs 1.25 lakh-crore announced by him during the poll campaign in October 2015 elections. Ironically, the promises which were made during Bihar polls are yet to be[Read More…]
Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba along with four others were sentenced to life in jail by the Gadchiroli court on Tuesday under Sections 13, 18, 20, 38, 39 of UAPA and 120 B of the IPC, said advocate Barun Kumar, who represented them in the court along with[Read More…]
Terming Yadav family feud as awful, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Yadav on Tuesday admitted that she want her younger son Parteek Yadav to enter in politics. “Yes I feel bad after what happened in the family, I don’t blame anyone (for allegations on her),” she said when asked about[Read More…]
Pankhuri Pathak, 25, is making her mettlesome presence felt on national television debates regularly; and these days even more so because of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh elections. The youngest media face of Samajwadi Party, Pankhuri, is a strongly opinionated young woman who has risen up the rungs of politics with[Read More…]
There is huge space for a new political party to come forward as existing parties are family-owned enterprises, said former Union finance minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram while speaking at a forum, Generation 67 (G67). He also stressed that these existing parties have closed their doors for the new[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu government on Monday released reports from Apollo Hospitals and AIIMS on the treatment given to late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. AIIMS handed over the detailed medical report to state government. The report was submitted following a formal request from the state government on Sunday in a bid to[Read More…]
Expressing confidence that BJP will perform better in UP elections, BJP President Amit Shah on Monday said that they are going to form a government in the state with 2/3rd majority. “In the 5th phase of UP polls we have formed the government and in 6th, 7th phase the party[Read More…]