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…
Salem (TN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday kept up the attack on the INDIA bloc over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Shakti’ remark, saying the opposition alliance displayed its “ill-intention” by declaring to destroy it. The opposition alliance, of which the Congress and the DMK are key constituents, repeatedly insults Hinduism but never targets any…
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has carried out an activation of an Emergency Landing Facility airstrip on a national highway in Andhra Pradesh’s Bapatla district, showcasing high level of “synergy and liaison” between the IAF and civil agencies. The activation was conducted on March 18, a senior IAF official said on Tuesday. The 4.1…
Palakkad (Kerala): Asserting the importance that the BJP-led NDA has given to Kerala in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a massive roadshow here on Tuesday to boost support for its candidates from the state, where the saffron party has historically had no significant electoral victories. The PM’s cavalcade with Modi…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that about three-five lakh people will apply for Indian citizenship under the CAA in the state, asserting that the applicants will comprise only those who were excluded from the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). He also said that seven lakh Muslims and five lakh Hindu-Bengalis,…
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here on Monday, amid non-stop chants of ‘Modi, Modi’ by BJP workers and he paid floral tributes to the portraits of 58 people killed here in the 1998 serial bomb blast. The roadshow, amid tight police security, comes days after the Madras High Court green-flagged…
Kolkata: At least seven people, including two women, were killed and 15 others were injured after an under-construction five-storeyed building, alleged to be an illegal structure, collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata in the wee hours of Monday. A search operation is in progress to locate additional survivors possibly trapped beneath the debris….
New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Centre over the electoral bondds issue, the Congress on Monday accused the Modi government of “hafta vasuli” (extortion) and claimed that a total of 21 firms that have faced investigations from the CBI, ED, or IT, have donated through electoral bonds. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said…
