Vansda (Guj): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday called AAP an “urban Naxal party” and said Maoist menace would raise its head in the region if the opposition candidate wins from Valsad Lok Sabha seat. The Aam Aadmi Party is fighting the Gujarat polls in alliance with the Congress, which has fielded its Vansda…
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police inquiry team constituted to investigate a woman employee’s allegation of sexual molestation by Governor CV Ananda Bose, will speak to the witnesses over the next few days, a senior officer said on Saturday. The investigators, she said have already requested the Raj Bhavan to share the CCTV footage. “We have formed…
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday claimed that the Centre owed Jharkhand lakhs of crores of rupees in coal royalties and central scheme benefits, and alleged that the Modi government dished out a “step-motherly treatment” to the state. Congress general secretary posed questions to the prime minister ahead of his rally in Palamu, Jharkhand. “Why…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday was informed by offices of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged sex scandal involving Prajwal Revanna that there is a possibility of the CBI issuing a “Blue Corner Notice”, against the Hasssan MP. Siddaramaiah held an “important meeting” with SIT officials, during which he instructed that…
New Delhi: India is not xenophobic, the country’s foreign minister has insisted, after comments by US President Joe Biden suggesting the South Asian nation and fellow ally Japan were struggling economically because they rejected immigrants. Biden, who is seeking reelection against Republican rival Donald Trump in November, made the remarks at a campaign fundraising event…
New Delhi: Former Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely joined the BJP on Saturday along with a few other leaders, including former city government minister Raj Kumar Chauhan and former MLAs Neeraj Basoya and Naseeb Singh. All the former Congress leaders slammed the opposition party’s alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi for…
New Delhi: The government on Saturday lifted the ban on onion exports but imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of USD 550 per tonne. The decision assumes significance as the commodity is politically sensitive and general elections are going on in the country. “The export policy of onions is amended from prohibited to free subject…
Hyderabad: Rohith Vemula’s mother Radhika Vemula met Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here on Saturday and urged him to see that “justice” is done to the family. Reddy assured her that an investigation would be conducted again into the University of Hyderabad student’s suicide in 2016 and that justice would be done, an official…
Pune: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday stressed that the “salient features” of the Constitution of India such as secularism and fundamental rights can not be changed by any party, leader or even Parliament. The Congress’ claim that the BJP was planning to change the country’s founding document was baseless, he said. The opposition party,…
Pune: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi whether he would scrap the 50 per cent limit on reservations in the country, and asserted his party’s Nyay guarantees will revolutionise the future course of politics. Addressing a rally for Congress’ Pune Lok Sabha seat candidate Ravindra Dhangekar, he said Maharashtra is…
