Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has stayed the investigation against BJP national president JP Nadda for allegedly violating the model code of conduct in an election speech during the recent Karnataka Assembly polls. The criminal petition filed by Nadda seeking to cancel the case registered against him by the Harappanahalli police was heard by a…
Dar es Salaam: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday reaffirmed India’s commitment to strengthen relations with Tanzania as he held “comprehensive and productive” talks with his counterpart here to create the pathway to boost bilateral ties in various sectors, including trade. Jaishankar met Tanzania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Dr. Stergomena Tax…
Bikaner (Rajasthan): Accusing the Congress of indulging in corruption and deceit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dubbed the party as a ‘loot ki dukaan’ and ‘jhooth ka bazaar” and said it is clear from people’s “anger” in Rajasthan the Ashok Gehlot government is on its way out. Addressing a public rally at Norangdesar here, the…
New Delhi, Jul 8 (PTI) Congress leader Sachin Pilot made it clear on Saturday that he has buried the hatchet with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on the advice of party president Mallikarjun Kharge, saying collective leadership was the “only way” forward going into the assembly polls. In an exclusive interview with PTI just days…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is facing more than 10 defamation cases in various parts of the country, got convicted in one, resulting in losing his Lok Sabha seat. But he appears unrelenting, despite the Supreme Court (SC) directing him to refrain from making allegations against his political opponents, more so against the leaders of…
Kolkata: Eleven people were killed in election-related violence in West Bengal since midnight as voting was underway for the three-tier panchayat polls in the state on Saturday, officials said. Among those killed were six TMC members, and one worker each of the BJP, CPI(M), Congress and ISF, and another person whose political identity could not…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused the BJP-led Centre of defaming AAP leader Manish Sisodia by running “fake news” of the Enforcement Directorate attaching assets worth Rs 52 crore belonging to the jailed leader in the Delhi excise policy case. He said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has, in fact, attached properties worth…
Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra on Friday said that previous governments came up with their welfare schemes sitting in air-conditioned rooms without seeing their impact on the ground. Addressing a public rally in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi, he called the beneficiaries of welfare projects today examples of “real secularism” and social justice. “Previous governments made their…
Panaji (Goa): India is being crowned as the world’s largest consumer of whisky as its consumption as a nation in the world is around 242 million cases annually. And, one of the country’s leading producers of world-class whisky, the Cheers Group, has now come up with a new brand which is appropriately named Decade Age,…
Colombo: Describing the Buddha, Lord Rama and Lord Shiva as a “trinity” that culturally binds India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Indian High Commissioner in Colombo Gopal Baglay on Friday urged all tourism stakeholders to do more to promote people-to-people ties in the region. In his address, on the second day of the Indian Travel Congress here,…
