New Delhi: Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and accused him of “lying” and said it is the government that did not allow the Parliament to function. Earlier in the day, Kumar accused the Congress of being the “main culprit” for the[Read More…]
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Shah’s claim of 120+ in Odisha polls is ‘exaggeration’: Patnaik
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said BJP President Amit Shah is exaggerating that his party would win more than 120 seats in the 2019 assembly elections. “I think that is very exaggerating,” Patnaik told reporters here. Odisha, which will face general and assembly elections in 2019, has[Read More…]
Five YSR Congress MPs to resign, sit on hunger strike
New Delhi: All the five Lok Sabha Members of YSR Congress on Thursday announced they will resign from Parliament and sit on an indefinite hunger strike at Andhra Bhawan here over their demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The party also said that on one pretext or the another,[Read More…]
FIR against top Jharkhand police officer, CM aide
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Friday lodged an FIR against a senior police officer and the Press Adviser of the Chief Minister in connection with the 2016 Rajya Sabha election. The FIR against Additional Director General of Police (ADG) – Special Branch Anurag Gupta and Press Adviser Ajay Kumar was lodged[Read More…]
Rahul vows to ensure political participation of unorganised workers
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday vowed to raise the issues of unorganised workers by including them in the party manifesto for the coming state assembly elections, apart from ensuring their political participation. Speaking at the second review meeting of All India Unorganised Workers Congress which began March[Read More…]
BSP MLA votes for BJP in Rajya Sabha polls
Lucknow: In a jolt to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), its legislator Anil Singh on Friday voted for BJP candidates in the Rajya Sabha polls currently underway in Uttar Pradesh. Talking to the media after casting his vote, Singh, who met chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night, said he[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi’s speech ‘rhetoric of loser’: Sitharaman
New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday dubbed Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Congress’ plenary session the “rhetoric of a loser”. She also questioned Rahul Gandhi’s Pandava-Kaurava analogy, and accused the Congress of mocking Hindu rituals. “Rahul Gandhi’s speech sounds like rhetoric of loser devoid of substance. But although[Read More…]
Forget PR dazzle, tell us when will MSP increase: Rahul to Modi
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to specify exactly when he was going to fulfil his promise of fixing the minimum support price for crops at 1.5 times the production cost. In a tweet after Modi at an event here said confusion was being[Read More…]
Congress to seek like-minded allies to defeat BJP, Rahul says country wants change
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday expressed its willingness to ally “with all like-minded parties” with a “pragmatic approach” to defeat the Narendra Modi government in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with party chief Rahul Gandhi stating that the country was feeling tired and seeking a change. The party’s 84th plenary[Read More…]
BJP dividing country: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has adopted divide and rule policy by following the ideology of hatred. Addressing the party leaders and workers at Congress’ 84th Plenary Session here, he said the BJP was spreading hatred and dividing the society. “The[Read More…]
Won’t damage Ram Sethu: Centre
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that “in the interest of the nation” it has decided not to damage the ‘Ram Sethu’ bridge for the Sethusamudram project initiated to facilitate navigation between India’s east and west coasts. Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice[Read More…]
In a blow to BJP, Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP snaps ties with NDA
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu tells his MPs that he is walking out of NDA. Confirming this TDP MP CM Ramesh said, We have decided to move out of the NDA, the support has been removed. We gave the NDA sufficient time to change their mind but nothing happened. BJP[Read More…]
Two each from BJP, Congress elected unopposed to RS from Gujarat
Gandhinagar: Two candidates each of the ruling BJP and opposition Congress were elected unopposed to as many vacant seats in the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat after their extra nominees opted out of the fray on the last date for withdrawal of nominations on Thursday. Union Ministers Purushottam Rupala and Masukh[Read More…]
SP wins Phulpur Lok Sabha seat
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party candidate Nagendra Singh Patel was on Wednesday elected to the Lok Sabha from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, defeating his nearest BJP opponent by 59,613 votes, an Election Commission official said. IANS
UP bypoll: BJP leading in Gorakhpur, Phulpur
Lucknow: Counting of votes for the Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh began amid tight security on Wednesday, a poll official said. In the initial rounds of counting, BJP is leading in both seats. While in the Gorakhpur bypoll, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Upendra Dutt Shukla is leading;[Read More…]
Neiphiu Rio sworn in as Nagaland CM
Kohima: Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader Neiphiu Rio was on Thursday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland. This is Rio’s fourth term. Governor P.B. Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 67-year-old Rio, who is heading a People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) coalition. Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
BJP announces candidates for RS polls, Jaitley shifted to UP from Gujarat
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday renominated to Rajya Sabha all the eight union ministers including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar. Apart from the ministers, the party also renominated its general secretary and key strategist Bhupender Yadav from Rajasthan. While Jaitley[Read More…]
Swamy calls Adani ‘biggest NPA trapeze artiste’; group clarifies position
New Delhi: BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday dropped a bad loan bombshell on industrialist Gautam Adani, calling him the “biggest NPA trapeze artiste in PSUs”, but the group clarified that it had diligently and regularly serviced all its debt. In a widely commented and shared tweet, Swamy said Adani,[Read More…]
Congress doing ‘politics of fear’ against Modi government: BJP
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of practising “politics of fear, confusion and concoction” against the Narendra Modi government and said results of three northeast states show that such attempts do not succeed. “The politics of fear and concoction does not last long. People not only understand it[Read More…]
351 ceasefire violations by Pakistan since January 1
New Delhi: Pakistan has violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir as many as 351 times since January 1 this year, the government said on Monday. Of these, 209 cases occurred in January while 142 instances were noted since February 21, Minister of State[Read More…]
Tripura: BJP has highest percentage of criminal, ‘crorepati’ MLAs
New Delhi: The BJP has done it in abundance in Tripura — be it the number of seats or the number of candidates with serious criminal cases and the worth of assets, an analysis of the self-sworn affidavits of the newly-elected legislators showed on Sunday. As many as 10 (29 per[Read More…]
Left Sarkar out as BJP set to form government in Tripura
Agartala: Putting up a spectacular show, the BJP and its ally, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, were headed for a landslide electoral victory in Tripura on Saturday, ousting the CPI-M-lead Left Front that was in power in the state for the last 25 years. As per the latest trends[Read More…]
BJP, ally leading in Tripura
Agartala: Putting up a remarkable show, the BJP and its alliance partner, Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, surged ahead of the ruling CPI-M-led Left Front in the counting of votes for the 59 assembly constituencies in Tripura on Saturday. Polling has been countermanded in one constituency of the 60-strong assembly following[Read More…]
RBI did risk-based supervision of bank every year: PNB
New Delhi: The Rs 12,600 crore fraud-hit Punjab National Bank on Thursday clarified that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had done risk-based supervision of the bank on an annual basis. “There have been reports in a section of media that Reserve Bank of India has not conducted any audit[Read More…]
All religions flourished in India: PM Modi
New Delhi: Stressing that India embraced many religions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that every religion flourished in India. “Every religion found life here, it grew here. Every Indian is proud of this virtue, no matter what language he speaks, no matter what religion he practices,” the Prime Minister[Read More…]