Jamui (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lambasted the Congress for having brought “disrepute” to the country, while lauding Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for maintaining an “unblemished record”. Addressing an election rally at Jamui, Modi refrained from mentioning Pakistan by name, but said that under the BJP-led NDA government, “India has started hitting back,…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday pulled up the West Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee, while hearing the affidavits regarding the allegations of violence, extortion, land grabbing, and sexual assault in Sandeshkhali. The court reminded the ruling Trinamool Congress that it couldn’t evade responsibility if the allegations were proven true. During the hearing,…
New Delhi: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, hours after being released from the Tihar jail on Wednesday, slammed the BJP in a speech alleging it wanted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation to stop free water, electricity and Mohalla clinics in the capital. Singh, who got bail in the alleged excise policy scam from…
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday directed the chief secretaries and directors general of police of all states as well as the heads of central agencies to ensure peaceful and inducement-free Lok Sabha polls and take preemptive measures to address communal tensions based on past experiences. Recent violence and turmoil in Manipur and…
Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will trailblaze the NDA’s Lok Sabha poll campaign in Bihar on Thursday when he is set to address a rally, his first in the state since the announcement of the elections, at Jamui. Modi, who is running for a third consecutive term in office, is scheduled to address the rally…
Jabalpur (MP): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi over his “fire” remark targeting the BJP, and said even Congress leaders do not take the Wayanad MP seriously. At a rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, Gandhi said if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the election through…
Wayanad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. Rahul, accompanied by his sister Priyanka Gandhi and other senior party leaders including AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, submitted his nomination papers to the Wayanad District Collector who is also the Returning Officer. After submitting the papers,…
New Delhi: Vijender Singh, India’s first Olympic medallist in boxing who took a plunge in politics in April 2019 by joining the Congress, switched to the BJP here on Wednesday. Singh fought the 2019 Lok Sabha election unsuccessfully from the South Delhi constituency on a Congress ticket. His name was doing the rounds for the…
New Delhi: The BJP’s Delhi unit has sent a defamation notice to senior AAP leader Atishi and demanded a public apology for her claim that the saffron party approached her through a “very close” person to join it. A day earlier, the Delhi minister claimed that four senior AAP leaders, including herself, would be arrested…
New Delhi: Opposition leaders are coming to the BJP fold as the leadership of their parties is changing “colours like a chameleon” and has no regard for core ideology, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has said. In an interview with PTI, he said the BJP never compromises with its ideology and those…
