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Survey shows satisfaction with Modi helped BJP win UP
Development and government functioning were among the top priorities for voters in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections while the Ram temple and Hindutva did not weigh much in the minds of people while exercising their franchise, a post-poll survey has highlighted. The study said the net satisfaction with the...
Cong’s big meet today over poll debacle
Congress leaders met at Sonia Gandhi’s home this morning, hours ahead of a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body over its latest state election defeats. Amid fresh questions on leadership, the Congress may advance its internal elections. The massive rout in the five states has revived searing criticism...
Biden warns direct NATO-Russia clash would trigger ‘World War III’
US President Joe Biden on Friday vowed that Russia would pay a “severe price” if it used chemical weapons in Ukraine, while also pledging to avoid provoking Moscow into “World War III.” Biden reacted after Russia accused Ukraine and the United States of developing biological and chemical weapons —...
Mayawati blames UP loss on media, rival
In her first public address after almost getting wiped out in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today blamed the media and Samajwadi Party (SP) for the party’s loss. While trying to lift the spirit of party workers, she blamed the media and...
Sidhu praises ‘excellent decision’ by Punjab
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu in his first interaction with the media after his party received a drubbing from the Aam Aadmi Party said that this is a politics of change. “I congratulate the people of Punjab for this excellent decision of ushering in a new system,” he...
Akhilesh says SP showed BJP’s seat count can be cut
“The struggle in public interest would continue,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted. A day after the BJP’s record victory in Uttar Pradesh, prime challenger Samajwadi Party’s chief Akhilesh Yadav thanked voters for their support and said they had shown that the BJP’s seat count can be decreased. Taking to Twitter this...
Amarinder Singh loses in Patiala
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lost the election today in an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sweep that left the Congress far behind and crushed heavyweight leaders across parties. Amarinder Singh lost in his Patiala Urban constituency to AAP’s Ajit Pal Singh Kohli. The 79-year-old, in a tweet, accepted...
AAP sweeps Punjab to add second state to kitty
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, in its second attempt, has taken Punjab, giving the eight-year-old outfit its second state after Delhi. “This shows AAP is the natural and national replacement of the Congress,” said Raghav Chadha, who ran the Punjab campaign for his party, in an exclusive interview to...
Goa Cong approaches Supreme Court over 2017 defections
The Congress’s Goa unit has approached the Supreme Court over the defection of its 10 MLAs to the BJP in 2017. The Congress’s move came as counting is going in in the Goa assembly elections 2022. In 2017 Goa assembly polls, the Congress had 17 MLAs and BJP 13...
AAP guards Goa candidates after resort move by Cong
A day after Congress moved its MLA candidates in Goa to a resort, the Aam Aadmi Party has also moved to keep its own candidates under guard. Sources say AAP candidates have been put together at certain locations in the state. With predictions of a hung assembly and Congress’s...
1999 Pak hijacker shot dead In Karachi
Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, one of the hijackers of the IC-814 Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Delhi in 1999, was shot dead in Pakistan’s Karachi, government sources said. The Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, who was living under a false identity “Zahid Akhund” for many years, was shot twice in the head...
Tamil Nadu minister’s daughter elopes, seeks protection
The newly-wed daughter of a Tamil Nadu minister has sought police protection in Bengaluru after eloping with a businessman, sources said on Tuesday. Jayakalyani, a doctor and daughter of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Minister PK Sekar Babu, pleaded before the commissioner of Bengaluru city police Kamal Pant...
Trinamool MLAs stop Governor from leaving without speech
The West Bengal assembly saw unruly scenes on the first day of the Budget session as BJP members protested in the well of the house over alleged post-poll violence in the recently held local body elections. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked the Governor to deliver his speech, but amid...
China says ready for Ukraine mediation
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Monday stressed that the friendship between Beijing and Moscow was still very strong, despite international condemnation of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, as he said China was open to helping mediate peace. Beijing has walked a tight diplomatic tightrope throughout the crisis, refusing to...
Ukraine says airport destroyed in Russian airstrike
A barrage of Russian missiles destroyed the airport in Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. ‼️ Urgent appeal by President @ZelenskyyUa: a missile strike on #Vinnytsia consisted of eight missiles; the airport is completely destroyed. The President called on the world to close the...
1,100 detained for protests across Russia over war
Over 1,100 people in cities across Russia have been detained at protests on Sunday against Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, a monitor said, more than a week after the assault began. OVD-Info, which monitors detentions at opposition protests, said that by around 2:20 pm Moscow time (1120 GMT) on...
Modi holds another meeting on Ukraine evacuation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held another high-level meeting on Saturday evening to discuss the situation in war-hit Ukraine and India’s evacuation efforts to bring back its citizens, officials said. Since Sunday, PM Modi has chaired a number of such meetings, as his government works to bring back Indian students...
Centre says evacuation complete except for Sumy
All the Indians stranded in Ukraine’s Pisochyn and Kharkiv will be evacuated in the next few hours, said the government, adding, the “main focus” on is conflict-stricken Sumy now. Three buses have reached Pisochyn and will shortly be making their way to western Ukraine, carrying the stranded students from...
