Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his attack on the Congress party on Saturday, this time saying that the party was asking who Modi’s mother and father are. Addressing a campaign rally on the first phase polling day, Modi quoted a Congress worker, Salman Nizami, as questioning his ancestry. Modi, campaigning[Read More…]
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Gujarat: Congress’ manifesto one of fiscal impossibility, says Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday slammed the Congress party’s Gujarat poll manifesto as one of “fiscal impossibility” and its hope of winning as a “political improbability”. “Having no model of development, the Congress Party manifesto is one of fiscal impossibility,” Jaitley said. Jaitley in a Facebook post said the[Read More…]
PM Modi greets Congress President Sonia Gandhi on her birthday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wished Congress President Sonia Gandhi on her 70th birthday. “Birthday greetings to Congress President… I pray for her long life and good health,” Modi said in a tweet. The Congress party also wished Gandhi. “Compassionate, hardworking, selfless. Calm and composed, yet dignified and strong.[Read More…]
Noida double murder: Teen son kills mother, sister with pizza cutter
The sensational double murder of a woman and her 11-year-old daughter has been solved with her son, 16, confessing to have killed them with a pizza cutter because he was scolded and beaten up at home over a minor issue, police said on Saturday. The juvenile, who was the prime[Read More…]
Women know how to deal with situations better than most men, says Shahid Kapoor
Actor Shahid Kapoor says the strongest people in his life have been women, especially his mother Neelima Azeem who has been a single parent. He also calls his wife Mira and daughter Misha his “whole world” and says he couldn’t have been happier in his life than now. Shahid spoke[Read More…]
Gujarat polls: Congress urges Election Commission to look into EVM glitches
The Congress party on Saturday urged the Election Commission to look into the malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines as Gujarat began its first phase polling. Senior party leader from the state Ahmed Patel requested quick action. “There are reports of EVM malfunctioning in several polling stations. Request the Election Commission[Read More…]
Gujarat polls: Rahul Gandhi receives warm welcome in Anand; eats ‘pav bhaaji’ at local shop
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday received a never-before welcome in Gujarat’s Anand during the high-octane campaigning in the poll-bound state. A massive crowd can be seen cheering for the Congress president with flashing the lights from their phones and chanting ‘Congress aave che’. Earlier in the evening, Rahul stopped[Read More…]
Gujarat assembly polls: PM Modi urges youngsters to cast vote
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has encouraged people to turn out in record numbers in the Gujarat’s assembly polls and particularly urged the youngsters to cast their votes. The first of the two-phase polls in the state began at 8 a.m. on Saturday across 89 constituencies spread out in the 19[Read More…]
Gujarat assembly polls: EVM, VVPAT glitches mark 10% polling
Visible enthusiasm among voters marked the first phase of Gujarat election on Saturday as large queues lined up outside 24,689 polling booths. The Election Commission said it received several complaints against malfunctioning EVMs and VVPATs, while the Model Code of Conduct was also violated at a few places. In the[Read More…]
BJP’s destructive ideology won’t even spare Hindus, says AAP
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh on Friday criticised BJP over the viral video in which a man was seen being brutally hacked to death and set on fire for allegedly committing “love jihad” and said that the manner in which the ruling BJP was functioning, the majority can[Read More…]
Gujarat assembly polls: Polling begins today across 89 constituencies in 19 districts
The first of Gujarat’s two-phase assembly polls began on Saturday across 89 constituencies spread out in the 19 districts of Kutch, Saurashtra and southern regions. A total of 977 candidates are in the fray from Kutch, Morbi, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Rajkot, Botad, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Gir Somnath, Bhavnagar, Bharuch,[Read More…]
Jharkhand slips to 13th in ease of doing business
Jharkhand has slipped to the 13th position from seventh in the ease of doing business rankings, according to government data on Friday. The ranking is topped by Haryana (with 69 per cent score), followed by Telangana (68.46) and Gujarat (67.74), according to the website of the Department of Industrial Policy[Read More…]
Corruption, cover-up, shielding guilty is Congress history: Ravi Shankar Prasad
BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday attacked the Congress, saying they did not spare a “single element of this earth” from corruption and “covering it (corruption) and saving the guilty has been their history”. “If we take the air waves, then there is 2G scam; if[Read More…]
Licence of Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, cancelled
The Delhi government on Friday cancelled the licence of Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh after doctors erroneously declared a newborn dead. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the licence stands cancelled “with immediate effect”. (IANS)
Rajasthan: Mamata Banerjee announces compensation, job for family of man hacked
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced Rs 3 lakh compensation to the family of a migrant labourer from the state who was hacked to death in Rajasthan and a job to a family member. “Very sad incident happened in Rajasthan. Afrajul Khan of Malda of our state[Read More…]
BJP Maharashtra MP Nana Patole resigns
BJP Maharashtra leader Nana Patole announced on Friday that he had resigned from the Lok Sabha and quit the party too. Patole, elected from Bhandara-Gondiya, said he had submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and also the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership. Meghalaya assembly’s three-day session to begin[Read More…]
Where did Rs 55,000 cr meant for Vanbandhu scheme go: Rahul asks Modi
Stressing that Adivasis in Gujarat were in bad condition, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi “where did Rs 55,000 crore meant for Vanbandhu scheme go?”. This was Gandhi’s 10th question as part of a Congress strategy wherein he would put one question daily to[Read More…]
PM Modi to address four rallies in Gujarat today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies in election-bound Gujarat’s Bhabhar, Kalol, Himmatnagar and Nikol regions on Friday, where polling is scheduled for the second phase on December 14. “Will address rallies in Bhabhar, Kalol, Himmatnagar and Nikol,” Modi tweeted. The counting of votes will take place on December[Read More…]
First-Ever Tesla arrives in India: Model X with its steering on right side
The first-ever Tesla has landed in India, and it’s a blue Model X with its steering on the right side. It could be a personal vehicle and not meant for official testing. Tesla allowed Indians to book the Model 3 but hasn’t since signalled if or when it’ll arrive. The vehicle, imported by Greenwich Meridian Logistics[Read More…]
Woman beaten up, clothes torn after she helps raid on liquor mafia
Even as the DCW said a woman was beaten up and paraded naked here on Thursday after she helped in a raid in north Delhi against illegal sale of liquor, police denied it and said two women have been arrested for physical assault. Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati[Read More…]
FRDI Bill will protect depositors’ interests: Government
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…]
UP Congress leader claims he wasn’t allowed to contest against Rahul
A Congress leader from western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday alleged that he wanted to contest the presidential election in the party against Vice President Rahul Gandhi but was prevented from doing so. Talking to reporters, Ayub Ali said that he had gone to meet the Congress‘ Central Election Authority chairman[Read More…]
Meghalaya assembly’s three-day session to begin today
Even as the Meghalaya assembly was scheduled to begin on Friday its last session ahead of the February-March 2018 elections, an opposition MLA on Thursday withdrew his notice to move a resolution for Speaker Abu Taher Mondal’s removal. The three-day session will include two days dedicated to government business and[Read More…]
India becomes member of key export control regime
India on Thursday became a member of the Wassenaar Arrangement, that controls the global trade of conventional weapons and dual-use goods and technologies. India was made the 42nd member of the grouping, at its two-day plenary in Vienna. The Ambassador of France Alexandre Ziegler tweeted his country’s congratulations. “As president[Read More…]
Not a Hindi speaker, messed up in translation: Mani Shankar Aiyar
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…]