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,…
Washington: The United States has expressed strong opposition to China’s assertion of sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh, terming it “unilateral attempts” by Beijing to assert its territorial claims. Washington’s response comes after China released another list of Chinese names for 30 locations in India’s northeastern state. According to a report by the South China Morning Post (SMCP), an official from…
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: A Delhi court on Wednesday directed AAP leader Sanjay Singh not to tamper with evidence or influence witnesses in the Excise “scam” case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja passed the directions before passing an order to release Singh from Tihar central jail following bail granted to him by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. 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…
Washington: US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump have easily won their presidential primaries in four more states as they are set for a 2020 rematch in November. On Tuesday, hundreds of delegates were up for grabs in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin….
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…
New Delhi: The NHRC has issued a notice to the Andhra Pradesh government and the state’s police chief over a college student committing suicide allegedly due to sexual harassment by a faculty member, officials said on Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in a statement has observed that apparently, the “negligent and reckless attitude…
Vellore (Tamil Nadu): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday said the BJP has done a “somersault” on the Katchatheevu issue since the LS polls are round the corner. Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not have the guts to neither condemn Sri Lanka over fishermen arrests nor oppose China on its claims over…
Bengaluru: Quinton de Kock’s astute fifty and pace sensation Mayank Yadav’s youthful brilliance fashioned Lucknow Super Giants’ 28-run romp over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Tuesday. Lucknow constructed their 181 for five around Quinton De Kock’s 81 (56b) and Nicholas Pooran’s unbeaten 40 (21b). RCB threatened to miraculously scale 182 briefly…
