Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange must not test the patience of his government after the latter made wild allegations against Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Shinde also took a swipe at the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar chief Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (UBT)…
Bhopal: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ended the politics of casteism, corruption, appeasement and dynasty that prevailed earlier, ushered in “politics of performance” and raised the stature of Indian passport. Shah paid a daylong visit to Madhya Pradesh, where he encouraged BJP workers in Gwalior and Khajuraho…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will on Monday inaugurate the ‘Purple Fest’ for people with disabilities at Amrit Udyaan in the Rashtrapati Bhawan, an official statement said. The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, in a statement, said the ministers of Social Justice and Empowerment and…
Puducherry: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is one among the seven candidates shortlisted by BJP to contest the Puducherry Lok Sabha seat, sources said on Saturday. For Puducherry BJP, Friday was marked by a series of closed-door meetings and consultations, highlighting the significance the party attaches to wresting the seat from the Congress-DMK alliance. “We…
Guwahati: In a boost to the ruling BJP in Arunachal Pradesh ahead of polls, two Congress MLAs and as many legislators from the National Peoples’ Party (NPP) joined the ruling BJP on Sunday.Two MLAs each from the Congress and the National People’s Party (NPP) joined the party on Sunday. The shifting of political allegiance came…
Aligarh (UP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday alleged that indigenous, small and cottage-scale industries and artisans are suffering in the country as traders linked to large corporate groups were flooding the markets with Chinese goods. He was addressing a gathering after his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ arrived here from Moradabad via Sambhal. Gandhi was greeted…
Lucknow/New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming general elections, BSP Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey on Sunday resigned from the party’s primary membership and joined the BJP in New Delhi. In his resignation letter addressed to BSP president Mayawati, Pandey said he has come to the conclusion that the party does not need…
Bengaluru: The BJP and the ruling Congress — the key contenders in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka — are grappling with the challenges of finding winning candidates in several constituencies with stakes high for the two national parties. The BJP had swept the 2019 general elections, bagging 25 of the total 28 seats in…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the need to protect the youth from drug addiction and said a strong family support system is needed to combat the vice. “For building a substance-free India, families must be strong as an institution,” he said in a video address to the ‘Ashwamedha Yagya’ event organized…
Devbhumi Dwaraka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated ‘Sudarshan Setu’, the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge of 2.32 km, on the Arabian sea connecting Beyt Dwarka island to mainland Okha in Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka district. Modi began his day by offering prayers at Lord Sri Krishna temple at Beyt Dwarka. He later inaugurated the four-lane…
