New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of mass vote theft in the Haryana Assembly Polls as “false and baseless” and accused the Congress leader of raising questions on the Election Commission to hide his failures and defame the country’s democracy. Rijiju’s retort came hours after Gandhi cited electoral list data from…
Kolkata: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal on Tuesday, with over 80,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) visiting homes to distribute enumeration forms, kicking off a politically sensitive exercise ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. More than 18 lakh enumeration forms were distributed by the BLOs till 5 pm, a senior…
New Delhi: Post Operation Sindoor, there are some “more lessons” that the armed forces have learned, and they need to be incorporated into the model of the planned theaterisation, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday. In his remarks during an interaction at India Defence Conclave 2025, hosted by defence think-tank…
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and extended an invitation to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects in the state. During the 20-minute meeting here, Sarma invited the prime minister to dedicate to the nation the new terminal of Guwahati’s Lokpriya Gopinath…
Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh): Moments before the collision, Sanjeev Vishwakarma (35), a passenger of Gevra Road-Bilaspur train, was scrolling through his phone, while some passengers were busy chatting, and some were dozing off, unaware that within seconds, their journey would turn into a nightmare. Around 4 pm, the MEMU (mainline electric multiple unit) passenger train rammed into…
Patna: The high-voltage campaign for the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections, covering 121 constituencies, ended on Tuesday evening, after weeks of acrimonious exchanges, personal attacks, and divisive rhetoric. Electioneering began in earnest a couple of weeks after the polls for the 243-member assembly were announced on October 6, with most parties having finalised…
Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh): At least two people were killed in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district on Tuesday when a passenger train collided with a goods train near Jairamnagar station. Preliminary reports indicate that the crash involved a local passenger train and a freight train. According to a report by India TV, rescue and relief teams have reached the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that the people of Bihar have made up their mind to ensure that the NDA breaks the record of its scale of victory in the last 20 years, while the “jungle raj people” would suffer their worst defeat at the hustings in the state. Modi said…
Darbharnga (Bihar): Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday urged voters in Bihar to press the EVM button with the BJP’s poll symbol lotus to prevent the return of ‘jungle raj’ during the RJD rule that had “devastated” the state. He promised that if the NDA returns to power, the government will spend Rs 26,000 crore…
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday said a bill introduced in the US Senate proposing a 25 per cent tax on any American person making an outsourcing payment will “light a fire in the Indian economy” if it becomes a reality. The opposition party said the bill reflects a growing mindset in the US that…
