Salem (Tamil Nadu): AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday said his party had improved its performance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls when compared to the 2019 LS elections and taunted BJP leader K Annamalai and others like him for the Saffron party failing to cross the majority mark on its own. Speaking…
New Delhi: The anticipation around who will be appointed as cabinet ministers is palpable as Prime Minister Modi prepares to lead his first coalition government. The NDA government’s swearing-in ceremony is set for Sunday. Key questions revolve around the top portfolios, which are expected to remain with the BJP. These portfolios include Home, Finance, Defence,…
New Delhi: Congress Working Committee members on Saturday unanimously urged Rahul Gandhi to take the role of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, as it also credited his two Bharat Jodo Yatras for the party’s performance in the general elections. At a press conference following the a meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Saturday said the Lok Sabha poll mandate is a “decisive rejection” of the politics of divisiveness and hate, and stressed that the INDIA bloc must continue functioning cohesively both inside and outside Parliament. In his opening remarks at the Congress Working Committee meeting here, Kharge also asserted that while…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan said on Friday that dialogue would be held only with those who wield real power in the country. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party founder said this during an informal chat with journalists in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi after hearing of the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case. “We…
New Delhi: Narendra Modi will take oath as the prime minister for a third consecutive term on Sunday evening as President Droupadi Murmu has invited him to form the government. Murmu appointed Modi as the prime minister-designate on Friday after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief J P Nadda handed her a letter on Modi’s election…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged NDA MPs not to fall prey to hoaxes about ministries and portfolios and claimed the “INDI Alliance” could also indulge in spreading “fake news” about such issues. Addressing a meeting of the NDA Parliamentary Party, PM Modi said he did not find much truth in what…
Srinagar: The days of “dictatorship” are over and the opposition in the new Lok Sabha would be stronger, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said here on Friday. The former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir said people have given their verdict and the Constitution has been saved. “This time there will…
Chennai: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said his party did not reject EVMs and the party is for improvement of VVPAT. Answering a question at a press conference here, Chidambaram said that in the Congress party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, ‘we did not reject EVMs.’ “Please read the manifesto, what we…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK on Friday stated that the people did not vote for Narendra Modi to rule the nation but circumstances have allowed him to become prime minister on the basis of “borrowed benevolence” — pointing to the support from NDA allies, including TDP and JD(U). The Dravidian party’s Tamil mouthpiece ‘Murasoli,’ in…
