New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown during the poll campaign that he is always “3X” the next person, including much younger rivals like Rahul Gandhi, Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai has said, asserting that one can discuss “what after Modi” only when someone better in hard work and popularity comes along. “He…
New Delhi: About 121 candidates contesting in the Lok Sabha elections have declared themselves illiterate, and 359 have stated that they have studied up to the 5th grade, according to an analysis of the reports shared by the poll rights body ADR. The data shows that 647 candidates have reported their education level up to…
Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda issued a warning on Thursday to his grandson, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who has been accused of multiple sexual abuse allegations, to “return immediately from wherever he is” and face the legal process. In an official statement posted on social media platform X,…
Mumbai: At least five workers were killed and more than 100 others injured in a deafening boiler explosion that rocked a chemical company at the MIDC industrial estate at Dombivli in the neighbouring Thane district, on Thursday. The fire and other rescue officials, who had arrived on the scene soon after the explosion took place…
Kolkata: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday cancelled all OBC certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010 Mamata Banerkee-led Trinamool government came to power in the state in 2011. Hence, the order is effective on all the OBC certificates issued under the Mamata government and the chief minister said the government won’t accept the order….
Hasan (Karnataka): JD(S) MLA H D Revanna, who is accused in cases of molestation and kidnapping, on Wednesday told the people of Hassan that they need not be afraid as he and his father H D Deve Gowda were there to protect them in the wake of developments that have rocked the district. Presently, Revanna…
Mahendragarh (Haryana): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday the Agniveer military recruitment scheme will be scrapped and thrown in the dustbin if the INDIA bloc comes to power, as he slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “turning Hindustan ke jawan into labourers”. In his first election meeting in Haryana for the Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi…
Basti (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday here called Congress and Samajwadi Party “sympathisers of Pakistan” and alleged that these parties are “scaring the country” with its nuclear power status. “This patron of terrorism which once used to make eyes at us, its condition has become such that its people are hard up even…
New Delhi: A total of 8,360 candidates are contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the highest since 1996, according to an analysis of official data. In the 2019 polls, there were 8,039 candidates, and in 1996, a record 13,952 candidates were in the fray for 543 seats of the Lower House of Parliament. The 2024…
Kanthi (WB): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of compromising national security for the sake of vote-bank politics, and “committing a sin” by allowing infiltrators to change the state’s demography. Addressing a poll rally at Kanthi in East Midnapore district, Shah also asserted that the Trinamool Congress…
