New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Atishi handed over her resignation to Lt Governor V K Saxena on Sunday, a day after her Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) faced a crushing defeat in the assembly polls. Atishi, who retained her Kalkaji seat, handed over her resignation to Saxena at Raj Niwas, officials said. The BJP returned to…
Bijapur (Chhatisgarh): Twelve Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Sunday, police said. The gunfight broke out at a forest in the Indravati National Park area in the morning when a team of security personnel was out an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior police official said. “As per preliminary…
Erode (Tamil Nadu): The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu extended its winning run in elections on Saturday by emerging victorious in the Erode East by-poll with a massive margin against actor-politician Seeman’s NTK, a victory that should come as a major boost to the M K Stalin-led party ahead of next year’s Assembly elections. Dravida…
New Delhi: The buzz over BJP’s chief ministerial pick intensified on Saturday after the party made a grand return to power in Delhi after a gap of more than 26 years, winning 48 seats in the 70-member Assembly. Pravesh Verma’s political currency skyrocketed with his stupendous victory over AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi…
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which was routed in the Delhi Assembly elections saw the erosion of nearly 10 percentage points in its vote share while the winner BJP not only saw a resurgence but also a significant increase in its vote share. The BJP was out of power in the national capital…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday promised to make every effort to clean the Yamuna river, resolve civic issues related to cleanliness and pollution, and deliver on all his guarantees to make Delhi a future-ready city. Addressing party workers after the BJP’s victory in the Delhi Assembly polls, Modi also slammed the outgoing…
New Delhi: With a basic ballpoint in his pocket, muffler around his neck, baggy sweater and blue Wagon R, Arvind Kejriwal was the archetypal common man when he came into the public domain. And when he used the descriptive to actually name his party after the “aam aadmi”, people were drawn to it in droves….
New Delhi: Just eight months after its good showing in the Lok Sabha polls, the INDIA bloc seems to be running out of steam with internal bickering and conflicting ambitions resulting in diminishing electoral returns that have once again put the BJP in the driver’s seat in national politics. With the defeat of the Aam…
Gwalior (MP): Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday said the Modi government has spent Rs 11 lakh crore on infrastructure development in the last year, while the Congress-led UPA dispensation used to spend only Rs 2 lakh crore on this front annually. Addressing a press conference to highlight various provisions made in the recently presented…
New Delhi: Sharing a picture of Draupadi’s “cheer haran” from the Mahabharat, Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal said the Aam Aadmi Party and its party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s “arrogance” led to their loss in the Delhi assembly polls. “Even Ravan’s arrogance did not last,” Maliwal, who fell out with the AAP last year, said in…
