New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday released its first list of 71 candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections, fielding Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Tarapur and Lakhisarai seats, respectively, and six state ministers. The list also includes nine women candidates, including sitting Minister Renu Devi, who will seek re-election from…
Patna: Candidates were yet to be announced by both the ruling NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc in poll-bound Bihar on Monday, even as just four days remain for filing nominations for the first phase, and the process begins for the second leg. However, state BJP president Dilip Jaiswal, who was back from Delhi a…
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday launched a fresh attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for asking female boarders not to go out at night following the alleged gangrape of a medical student, accusing her of indulging in “victim shaming” and demanding justice for the survivor. In the wake of the alleged gangrape…
Patna: The Jan Suraaj Party on Monday announced its second list of candidates for 65 constituencies for the Bihar assembly elections, but kept under wraps its choice for the Raghopur seat from where its founder Prashant Kishor is expected to take on RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav. Addressing a press conference, Kishor said that with this, the…
Tura: Two persons were arrested with illegal drugs in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district on Monday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) intercepted a motorcycle at Tebronggre, they said. Johnsbirth R Marak and Chayang Ch Marak, who were riding the two-wheeler, were arrested after Senspa capsules weighing 1.1 kg were…
Bengaluru: With his scheduled dinner meet for cabinet colleagues here on Monday setting off wild speculations of a reshuffle of ministers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah asked whether such a gathering was an offense. The meeting also comes in the wake of speculations about a change of guard in the state when the Congress government reaches…
Kolkata: The Opposition BJP on Monday launched a six-day sit-in at Durgapur in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district to protest the alleged gang rape of a medical student of a private college in the industrial city. The dharna was launched by the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, in the City…
Puducherry: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stone for a Rs 436 crore, four-km elevated corridor linking the Indira Gandhi Square and the Rajiv Gandhi Square here on Monday during his visit to the Union Territory, officials said. Gadkari, the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, will dedicate to the nation three national highway…
New Delhi: Putting to rest a controversy over the absence of women journalists at his media interaction two days back, Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday said there was no intention behind it. Muttaqi said this during a second press conference in three days in New Delhi that was attended by several women…
New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for asking female boarders not to venture out at night following the alleged gangrape of a medical student, and demanded her resignation, calling her a “blot on womanhood”. The party accused the Trinamool Congress supremo of “victim shaming and blaming”…
