Pune: The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party will not merge with any political party, its Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule asserted on Wednesday. She was speaking to reporters after a meeting of the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) at party chief Sharad Pawar’s residence here. Apart from Pawar and Sule, former Maharashtra ministers Anil Deshmukh and Rajesh…
Chandigarh: Scores of farmers from Punjab continued to stay put at the two borders of the state and Haryana on Wednesday while security personnel fired some tear gas shells on the protesters at the Shambhu border near Ambala. As the peasants gather there to resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest, farmer leaders will first hold a…
New Delhi: Hitting out at the Centre over the farmers’ protests, the Congress on Wednesday asked why it is “running away” from giving legal guarantee on MSP despite repeated promises and claimed the farmers have “lost faith” in the Modi government. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also spoke with a farmer injured in police action during…
Abu Dhabi: In a bid to further strengthen their bilateral relationship, India and the UAE have inked 10 pacts for collaboration in key sectors like energy, infrastructure, investments, and management of archives, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said here on Wednesday. The 10 memoranda of understanding and agreements were signed during the meeting Prime Minister Narendra…
Jaipur: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday filed her nomination papers here for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan. Her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra, leader of opposition Tikaram Jully were present at the time of the nomination filing in the assembly…
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday named Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan its Rajya Sabha candidates from Odisha and Madhya Pradesh respectively. If elected, a near certainty, it will be the second Rajya Sabha term for the two leaders from these states. Railway Minister Vaishnaw is likely to get elected with the support…
New Delhi: With protesting farmers seeking to march to the national capital, security remained tight on Wednesday with personnel deployed in huge numbers and barricades regulating movement in central Delhi and at border points with Haryana, which can cause hardships to commuters. The traffic movement at Singhu (Delhi-Sonipat) and Tikri borders (Delhi-Bahadurgarh) is suspended, an…
New Delhi: Twenty-three candidates have bagged the perfect 100 score in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main 2024 with a maximum of them being from Telangana, the National Testing Agency announced on Tuesday. Over 11.70 lakh candidates had appeared for the first edition of the crucial exam. Among the candidates who secured an NTA score of…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday set aside the promulgation of prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC at Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing protests over the last one week over alleged atrocities on villagers by some people owing allegiance to the ruling Trinamool Congress. The court observed that instead of exhausting all their…
New Delhi/Jaipur: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is set to enter Rajya Sabha for the first time and will file her nomination papers from Rajasthan for the upcoming polls to the Upper House, party sources said on Tuesday. Barely two months before the Lok Sabha election, Gandhi will be filing her nomination papers in Jaipur…
