Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party AIADMK on Wednesday finalised seat sharing arrangement for the Lok Sabha polls with allies DMDK, SDPI and Puthiya Tamizhagam. Announcing the electoral pacts here at the party headquarters, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said the DMDK would contest from Tiruvallur (SC), Central Chennai, Cuddalore, Thanjavur and Virudhunagar Lok…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Wednesday that earlier people used to question why the CBI and the ED did not act against powerful people, while those powerful and corrupt are now asking why the agencies are acting against them. Modi’s apparent swipe at opposition leaders at News18 group’s summit came amid their…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday took a critical view of some of the key decisions made by the Jawaharlal Nehru government and said one needs to get out of this “cult worship” that the period from 1946 onwards was “great years” and the country did “splendidly.” In the early years, it…
Madurai: In the wake of Union Minister for State Shobha Karandlaje linking Tamil people in the Rameswaram cafe blast, the Madurai city police on Wednesday registered a case against her. CM MK Stalin had earlier condemned her statement and demanded appropriate legal action for causing a threat to peace, harmony and national unity through a post on…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Wednesday released the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha election, which promised that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and the proposals for Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and One Nation, One Election will be dropped if it is elected to power as part of the…
Guwahati: Asserting that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will not impact the indigenous people of Assam, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday said the ruling NDA will win at least 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the upcoming elections. In an interview to PTI, the Union Ports, Shipping, Waterways and Ayush…
New Delhi: India has emerged as the world’s third largest startup ecosystem with over 1.25 lakh startups and 110 unicorns, and is charting a roadmap for becoming a developed nation with right decisions taken at the right time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh event, Modi said India’s startup…
Ranchi: In a blow to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Sita Soren, three-term MLA and sister-in-law of former chief minister Hemant Soren, quit the party on Tuesday and joined the BJP, weeks before the Lok Sabha polls. She joined the BJP in New Delhi in the presence of its national general secretary Vinod Tawde and…
New Delhi: Asserting that the country is seeking a change, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Tuesday that the ‘guarantees’ touted by the present government would meet the same fate as the ‘India Shining’ slogan of 2004. Addressing the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s top decision-making body, to discuss and approve…
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said it has noted the comments made by the spokesperson of the Chinese Defence Ministry “advancing absurd claims” over the territory of Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state “was, is and will always be” an integral and inalienable part of India. The response from the…
