New Delhi: Â As the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance prepares to form the new government, one of its key allies, Janata Dal United (JD(U)), has advocated for the implementation of ‘One Nation, One Poll’, a major promise from the BJP’s election manifesto. Several opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, and CPM, have strongly opposed the proposal, arguing…
Washingt0n/London: US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron were among dozens of world leaders who congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday on the victory of the BJP-led NDA coalition in the general elections and expressed their desire to work closely with him. “Congratulations…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday poised to form the government for a third consecutive term notwithstanding crushing losses in three Hindi heartland states after a bitterly fought election that was projected as a referendum on his popularity. The Bharatiya Janata Party, whose candidates had contested in the name of Modi, won…
Patna: Powered by a better-than-expected show from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), the ruling NDA was poised to retain the upper hand in the state where its candidates were leading in 34 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats. The JD(U) was leading in all but two of the 16 seats it had contested, as…
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday dared the opposition to share evidence of allegations that returning officers and district magistrates were influenced to vitiate the poll process so the panel could take action against them. The opposition should also tell the Commission about those trying to influence the poll process before the…
New Delhi: Citing the Conduct of Election Rules, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said the count of postal ballots will start first across all counting centres and asserted that there was “no doubt about it”. Responding to questions at a press conference here, he said after half-an-hour of the start of the postal…
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said that the elections commissioners were always here, and never went missing. Addressing a press briefing, he said social media meme pages are calling us ‘ Laapataa Gentlemen’. But we never went missing, we were always here, Rajiv Kumar said. “Now memes can say the ‘Laapataa…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the nation to “reassess outdated thinking and beliefs” and free “our society from the pressure of professional pessimists”, asserting that the foundation for a “Viksit Bharat” must be laid in the 25 years in the run up to the centenary of India’s independence. “The world of…
New Delhi: The Congress and its INDIA bloc allies are trying to undermine the integrity of India’s electoral process, the BJP alleged on Sunday and urged the Election Commission to prevent any attempts of “violence and unrest” during the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha polls on June 4. A BJP delegation comprising Union…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he was going back to jail not because he was involved in corruption but as he had raised voice against “dictatorship”. Kejriwal was released from jail on May 10 on interim bail granted by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case linked to the…
