Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday directed the police in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore to grant permission with certain conditions to BJP to conduct a four km road show of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in that city on March 18. Justice N Anand Venkatesh gave the directive to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, R S…
Hyderabad: The ED on Friday took into custody BRS MLC and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha in connection with a money laundering case. Officials of the Enforcement Directorate had earlier raided her premises. Senior BRS leader and former minister Prasanth Reddy quoting ED officials said Kavitha will be taken to Delhi…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wished West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee quick recovery after she suffered an injury and was taken to a hospital. “I pray for a quick recovery and the best health for Mamata Didi,” he said in a post on X. Banerjee suffered a major injury on her…
New Delhi: From the who’s who of the corporate world to low-profile businesses — the Election Commission on Thursday put out the entire list of entities that have purchased electoral bonds for making political donations. The names include steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel, Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta, ITC, Mahindra and Mahindra, a lesser-known…
New Delhi: A high-level Committee on Thursday recommended simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and state assemblies as the first step followed by synchronised local body polls within 100 days. In its report submitted to President Droupadi Murmu that ran into over 18,000 pages, the panel headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind said simultaneous polls will…
Thiruvanthapuram: Former Indian athlete Padmini Thomas and ex-District Congress Committee general secretary Thampanoor Satheesh on Thursday left the Congress and joined the BJP. The move comes a day after the BJP’s state chief, K Surendran, announced that more Congress members would be joining the saffron party. The development also comes a week after Padmaja Venugopal,…
Guwahati: Completion of projects after laying foundation is the hallmark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development model, Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Thursday. Sitharaman, the Union Finance Minister, claimed that prior to 2014, when the Modi government came to power at the Centre, foundations were laid but projects were not completed on time….
Nashik: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the opposition INDIA alliance, if voted to power, will be the “voice of farmers” and frame policies to protect them, promising to exclude cultivators from GST and restructure crop insurance scheme. He was addressing a farmers’ rally at Chandwad in Maharashtra’s Nashik district along with NCP (SP)…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a roadshow in Hyderabad on Friday and address BJP rallies in Telangana on March 16 and March 18 ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Modi’s roadshow would be held for an hour from Mirjaguda to Malkajgiri here Friday evening, Telangana BJP sources said on Thursday. On March 16,…
New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan said on Wednesday that his party has finalised a seat-sharing formula with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls and all his “concerns” were addressed. Following a meeting with BJP president J P Nadda, Paswan was lavish in his praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
