Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a six-kilometre-long roadshow in Varanasi on Monday, a day before he is scheduled to file his nomination papers from the Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Modi garlanded a statue of noted educationist and social reformer Madan Mohan Malviya at the Malviya Chauraha in the Lanka area here…
Mumbai: India is looking for additional sites for Russian nuclear reactors, while the discussion with the French on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant project is underway, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday. Responding to a question on nuclear collaboration with foreign countries not taking off as expected, Jaishankar said the manner in…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking removal of Arvind Kejriwal as the Delhi chief minister after his arrest in a money laundering case, holding that the petitioner had no legal right to seek his ouster. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said resignation in such circumstances is…
Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Monday his family has always worked for the people of the Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency, unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi who works in the “interest of Adani and Ambani”. Addressing his first election meeting in the constituency after his nomination, Gandhi said he was contesting the…
New Delhi: Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday assured people that the “guarantees” listed by the party in its Lok Sabha poll manifesto will change their circumstances in this “difficult time”. In a video message, which was shared by the Congress on social media, she said women of the country are facing tough…
New Delhi: AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Monday went to the Civil Lines police station and alleged that a member of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal staff “assaulted’ her at the chief minister’s official residence, police officials said. Police have not yet received a formal complaint. There was no response to messages…
New Delhi: Urging people to vote in large numbers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said it is everyone’s duty to strengthen India’s democracy. With assembly polls also being held in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha alongside the Lok Sabha elections across the country, Modi appealed to voters to turn up at polling booths in record…
Patna: The Bihar Chief Electoral Officer on Sunday dismissed charges that checking of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s helicopter on Saturday was an “instance of targeting the opposition”, asserting it was a “routine procedure” and those of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J P Nadda were also searched. Kharge had addressed a couple…
Amaravati/Lucknow: The electoral fate of several prominent candidates like Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Union minister Giriraj Singh, TMC’s firebrand leader Mohua Moitra and AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi will be decided on Monday when polling will be held in 96 Lok Sabha constituencies across 10 states and Union Territories in the fourth phase of the general…
Dhule (Maharashtra): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday asked people to vote for his party, claiming that a third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah would mean that the poor, Dalits and tribals would be “treated like slaves”. Addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Dhule constituency, where the Congress has…
