After supreme court passed the judgement that there will be no delay in presenting union budget as demanded by the opposition parties, the Election Commission on Monday said that no particular schemes can be proclaimed in the union budget for the five states where assembly elections are due this year.[Read More…]
Days after the Election Commission censured him for birbery remarks, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday told the poll panel that his remarks were aimed at containing graft and sought a review of its order to allow him to repeat the comments. Claiming that Election Commission misinterpreted his comments,[Read More…]
Priyanka Gandhi gains attention after the congress leaders openly lauded her role in clinching alliance with Samajwadi Party for UP Polls. Priyanka was often spoken of in party circles as managing the back-end operations of brother Rahul’s political office and overseeing affairs in the home boroughs of Amethi and Rae[Read More…]
Prakash Ambedkar, who heads Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) on Sunday dared the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to do away with the reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The grandson of architect of the Indian Constitution alleged that the BJP-led NDA government is trying to create class divisions in[Read More…]
After police crackdown on peaceful pro-jallikattu protest at Marina beach, Tamil Nadu main opposition party DMK staged a walkout in the state Assembly on Monday. DMK working president and opposition leader MK Stalin criticised the police action on protesters at Marina beach demanding a permanent solution for holding the bull[Read More…]
Hours after the Congress sealed a pre-poll deal with Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, the former on Sunday released its first list of 43 candidates for the UP Assembly elections. The list include, former Union minister Jitin Prasad and controversial leader Imran Masood. Masood, who is well-known for his hate speech[Read More…]
Hundreds of Congress workers and supporters went on the rampage at the party headquarters in Dehradun after the names of 63 poll candidates were announced on Sunday. They were angry at the distribution of poll tickets. The workers supporting Congress leaders Ayendra Sharma and Navin Bhisht threw chairs, broke furniture,[Read More…]
The alliance between the Congress partyand Samajwadi party for the upcoming Assembly polls in UP has been sealed on Sunday. Congress party will contest from 105 seats,while SP would contest for 298 seats. UPchief minister Akhilesh Yadav will release the Samajwadi party election manifesto on Sunday. Stating the discussion between[Read More…]
Samajwadi Party and Congress alliance ahead of UP Polls is in trouble as Congress rejects Akhilesh Yadav’s final offer of 100 seats. However, this alliance failure will tilt voters to BSP. Akhilesh Yadav’s offer came after a talk between SP and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azaad and a special emissary[Read More…]
Election Commission on Saturday censured Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his bribe remarks made at a poll rally in Goa. The election commission also warned Kejriwal for stern action including suspension or withdrawal of recognition to AAP if he continues to violate the model code. “…The Election Commission hereby[Read More…]
Reacting to the speculated SP-Congress alliance, BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday said Congress’ attempted tie-up with ruling Samajwadi Party showed its political bankruptcy and will be inimical to party which is running on oxygen support in Uttar Pradesh. She alleged that Congress was kowtowing to Samajwadi Party by accepting tainted[Read More…]
Ahead of UP Assembly polls, a Samajwadi Party leader and Mulayam Singh Yadav’s aide Ambika Chaudhary joined Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday. “I have resigned from SP and all positions related to the party and have dedicated myself completely to BSP now. The kind of treatment Akhilesh extended to[Read More…]
Just hours after US President Donald Trump’s moving to the White House, he refashioned the Oval office as he reinstalled a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and introduced some other changes. The bust was removed to outside the Treaty Room in the private residence of the White[Read More…]
The newly appointed President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, gave his brief inaugural speech with a dash of Nationalism, concentrating on America’s Acche din. Interestingly, here in India when our PM Narendra Modi was elected to power, his inaugural speech and the to-be adapted policies for making[Read More…]
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday alleged that independent thinking and free expression in Indian universities were under threat in the present situation. He said the recent attempts to interfere with free expression of the student community in Hyderabad Central University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were of particular[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday tweeted that the MannKiBaat episode on 29thJanuary will primarily be on the various board exams. He emphasised that the program will be exclusively for youth. The #MannKiBaat episode on 29th January will primarily be on the various board exams coming up. It will be[Read More…]
Adding trouble over the grand alliance, Samajwadi Party on Friday released the list of 191 candidates for the first three phases of elections. Interestingly, the list included SP candidates on eight seats where Congress has sitting MLAs. According to reports, SP has fielded candidates in sitting seats of Congress that[Read More…]
Dangal actor Zaira Wasim, who has been trolled in social media after Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti called her ‘role model’, on Friday, had a fresh Twitter spat with Union Minister Vijay Goel. The BJP leader tweeted a painting of a Burqa-cladded woman, tagging Zaira Wasim in the comment.[Read More…]
The first black president for eight years, Barack Obama has said that if the US continues to be inclusive and diverse, it may send a woman, a Hindu, a Jew or a Latino to the White House. The retiring president also made it clear that he was not going away[Read More…]