Bijapur: Six Naxalites, including two women cadres, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Wednesday, a police official said. The gunfight took place in the forest area located along the Talperu river near Chipurbhatti village under Basaguda police station area, when a joint team of security personnel was out…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday urged the Delhi High Court to grant it time to file reply to a plea by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for the agency, said the “bulky” petition…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called up the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll candidate from Basirhat, Rekha Patra, who had highlighted the plight of women in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, and lauded her as “Shakti Swaroopa’, BJP leaders said. Patra, who had raised her voice against the alleged atrocities by local Trinamool Congress (TMC)…
New Delhi: The BJP received a shot in the arm in Punjab on Tuesday as three-term Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu from the state joined the party, asserting that people have made up their mind to elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power again. Bittu is the grandson of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh,…
Chandigarh/New Delhi: Every woman, irrespective of her background and profession, deserves dignity, actor Kangana Ranaut said on Tuesday as Congress leaders’ comments on Mandi from where she is contesting the Lok Sabha elections snowballed into a massive political row. Ranaut, who makes her political debut as a BJP candidate from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, said…
Thiruvananthapuram: Congress on Tuesday said its candidates were facing a bit of a financial crunch while campaigning for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls due to the party’s accounts being frozen by the Central government. Congress Working Committee member and MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor said that all party candidates “were in a financial crunch.” “The…
Chandigarh: The BJP will not go into an alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party informed today. In a video statement on his X handle, Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar confirmed the party’s decision to go solo in Punjab. “We took this decision after wide…
New Delhi: The Election Commission has directed the chief electoral officer of Karnataka to take “immediate appropriate action” on a complaint filed by JD (S) president H D Deve Gowda that Congress MP D K Suresh was allegedly planning distribution of freebies and the state poll machinery failed to take swift action. In a letter…
Puducherry: Puducherry Home Minister A Namassivayam, who is the BJP candidate from the lone Lok Sabha seat in the union territory, on Monday filed his nomination for the April 19 polls. He was accompanied by Chief Minister and AINRC founder N Rangasamy for filing the nomination with the District Collector A Kulothungan. BJP is in…
Wayanad: In a constituency where Rahul Gandhi won by a margin of over 4 lakh votes in 2019, his rival this time, BJP Kerala chief K Surendran who has been fielded as the party’s candidate for Wayanad, said on Monday that the Congress leader would face “the same outcome as in Amethi”. The upcoming Lok…
