New Delhi: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, hours after being released from the Tihar jail on Wednesday, slammed the BJP in a speech alleging it wanted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation to stop free water, electricity and Mohalla clinics in the capital. Singh, who got bail in the alleged excise policy scam from…
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday directed the chief secretaries and directors general of police of all states as well as the heads of central agencies to ensure peaceful and inducement-free Lok Sabha polls and take preemptive measures to address communal tensions based on past experiences. Recent violence and turmoil in Manipur and…
Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will trailblaze the NDA’s Lok Sabha poll campaign in Bihar on Thursday when he is set to address a rally, his first in the state since the announcement of the elections, at Jamui. Modi, who is running for a third consecutive term in office, is scheduled to address the rally…
Jabalpur (MP): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi over his “fire” remark targeting the BJP, and said even Congress leaders do not take the Wayanad MP seriously. At a rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, Gandhi said if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the election through…
Wayanad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. Rahul, accompanied by his sister Priyanka Gandhi and other senior party leaders including AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, submitted his nomination papers to the Wayanad District Collector who is also the Returning Officer. After submitting the papers,…
Washington: The United States has expressed strong opposition to China’s assertion of sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh, terming it “unilateral attempts” by Beijing to assert its territorial claims. Washington’s response comes after China released another list of Chinese names for 30 locations in India’s northeastern state. According to a report by the South China Morning Post (SMCP), an official from…
New Delhi: Vijender Singh, India’s first Olympic medallist in boxing who took a plunge in politics in April 2019 by joining the Congress, switched to the BJP here on Wednesday. Singh fought the 2019 Lok Sabha election unsuccessfully from the South Delhi constituency on a Congress ticket. His name was doing the rounds for the…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday directed AAP leader Sanjay Singh not to tamper with evidence or influence witnesses in the Excise “scam” case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja passed the directions before passing an order to release Singh from Tihar central jail following bail granted to him by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The…
New Delhi: The BJP’s Delhi unit has sent a defamation notice to senior AAP leader Atishi and demanded a public apology for her claim that the saffron party approached her through a “very close” person to join it. A day earlier, the Delhi minister claimed that four senior AAP leaders, including herself, would be arrested…
Washington: US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump have easily won their presidential primaries in four more states as they are set for a 2020 rematch in November. On Tuesday, hundreds of delegates were up for grabs in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin….
