Raipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government has resolved to make three crore women in the country “lakhpati didi” and asserted that women’s welfare is their priority. The PM was speaking after virtually inaugurating the ‘Mahtari Vandan’ scheme in Chhattisgarh to provide monetary assistance to women. “It is fortunate that today I…
New Delhi: A day after Arun Goel resigned as election commissioner, the Congress and other opposition parties on Sunday asked whether he did so due to any differences with the chief election commissioner or the Narendra Modi government. Taking potshots at the BJP, some opposition leaders also wondered if Goel resigned to contest the Lok…
Karwar (Karnataka): Six years since Anantkumar Hegde said the BJP would change the Constitution to do away with the word “secular” in its preamble, the BJP MP on Sunday said that to amend the Constitution, the public must ensure two-thirds majority for the saffron party in Lok Sabha. The BJP needs a two-thirds majority in…
New Delhi: Terming the SBI’s reasons for seeking an extension in disclosing electoral bond details “puerile”, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal Sunday said it is the Supreme Court’s responsibility to protect its dignity and that it “would not be easy” to accept the bank’s plea when a Constitution bench has rendered a judgement. Sibal, who…
Kolkata: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced the list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal, dropping at least eight sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad. The party renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded 12 women. Cricketer Yusuf Pathan…
New Delhi: India should be able to send its scientists to study the deep ocean 6 km under the sea surface in its own Samudrayaan by the end of next year, Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju has said. In a video interview to PTI, Rijiju said India’s deep-ocean submersible Matsya6000, which will take humans up…
Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here and offered prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple after arriving in his parliamentary constituency to a rousing reception days after the BJP fielded him from the seat for a third time. BJP workers and locals lined up the roads outside the airport from where Modi…
New Delhi: The BJP, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Jana Sena Party have come to an understanding for stitching up an alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh Assembly polls, former chief minister of the southern state N Chandrababu Naidu said on Saturday. “Andhra Pradesh has been destroyed badly.The BJP and…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday underlined his party’s resolve to conduct a caste census if voted to power, asserting that based on this right step along with economic mapping, the 50 per cent cap on reservation would be “uprooted”. Gandhi said the Congress’ slogan is “count” because that would be the first…
Patna: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday alleged that the top brass of the Congress and RJD always worked for the interest of their families but did not do anything for the poor. Addressing a rally of the BJP OBC Morcha in Patna’s Paliganj area, he said that it is only Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
