New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the biggest face of the Other Backward Class (OBC) and Extremely Backward Class (EBC) categories in the country, Union minister Nityanand Rai said on Thursday, adding the Bharatiya Janata Party will win all 40 seats in Bihar in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “The JD-U is finished in Bihar….
New Delhi: Working on seat sharing agreements will be on the top of the agenda at the upcoming meeting of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, likely to be held between December 17 and 20, sources have said. According to sources, while a date for the meeting has not been finalised yet, the meeting will be held in…
New Delhi: Teaming up of manned and unmanned military assets will be a major aspect in new-generation avionics to prepare for future warfare and India is making concerted efforts in this direction, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Thursday. In an address at an aviation expo, the top military official also underlined the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to release in advance the second instalment of the Centre’s contribution to the SDRF of Rs 493.60 to Andhra Pradesh and Rs 450 crore to Tamil Nadu in view of the floods caused by cyclone Michaung, Union Minister Amit Shah said. In a…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given a standing ovation at the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting on Thursday following the party’s stupendous win in three assembly polls. Party MPs raised slogans lauding his leadership as senior leaders, including BJP president J P Nadda, felicitated Modi at the first meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party…
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee was aghast at Rahul Gandhi’s ordinance-tearing act in 2013 and said he has all the “arrogance” of his Gandhi-Nehru lineage without their political acumen and that this episode was the “final nail in the coffin” for the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls the subsequent year, a book on the late…
New Delhi: Tibetan people are “dying a slow death” in the face of China’s repression and the democratic nations must stand up to the Chinese belligerence, the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile Penpa Tsering has said. Tsering said democratic nations around the world must look at the “internal forces” such as the Tibetans, Uyghur leaders and pro-democratic…
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday blamed India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s “two major blunders” — declaring a ceasefire without winning the entire Kashmir and taking the issue to the United Nations — for the sufferings of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Replying to a debate in the Lok Sabha on…
Raipur: As many as 72 out of 90 MLAs in the newly-elected Chhattisgarh legislative assembly are crorepatis, four more compared to the previous Vidhan Sabha. The BJP, which won a landslide victory in the recently-held elections, tops this list with 43 crorepati MLAs, followed by Congress.. Out of 90 seats, the BJP has won 54…
Belagavi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday hit out at the opposition BJP questioning the contribution of the party in taking up development works in Bengaluru when its government was in power for four years in the state. His comments came in response to the BJP’s accusation that no development work was taking place in…
