11843 stories by IPA Staff
Ghulam Nabi Azad’s nephew joins BJP
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s nephew Mubashir Azad joined the BJP on Sunday and said he was “influenced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s developmental works at the ground level”. Mubashir Azad, the son of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s youngest brother Liaqat Ali, also said his uncle was “disrespected” by...
BJP banks on Modi enigma for clean sweep in Varanasi
The eight assembly seats in Varanasi are a prestige issue for the BJP, as it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency. The PM is expected to spend four days in Varanasi in the next one week, including Sunday when he will interact with 20,000 BJP booth volunteers in the...
Rupee trade with Russia planned to soften sanctions
India is exploring ways to set up a rupee payment mechanism for trade with Russia to soften the blow on New Delhi of Western sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, government and banking sources said. Indian officials are concerned that vital supplies of fertilizer from Russia...
Over 60% candidates in phase 5 polls have criminal cases
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) in its analysis report for candidates contesting the sixth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh, has found that out of 670 candidates in 57 constituencies, 182 candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Nearly 151 candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves....
Russia-Ukraine war drags Sensex 2,000 points lower
Indian benchmark indices entered correction territory as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced military operations in Eastern Ukraine on Thursday. The Nifty 50 and Sensex have now fallen more than 10 per cent from their recent highs after the brief recovery seen in January. Both the benchmark indices were at...
ED arrests Nawab Malik for Dawood money-laundering links
NCP leader and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik was on Wednesday arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case linked to the activities of the Mumbai underworld & fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. ED sources told CNN-News18 that Malik was not cooperating with...
More troubles for Lalu as ED moves to confiscate assets
More troubles are likely for the ailing RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, incarcerated in the Rs 950 crore fodder scam and now undergoing treatment in Rajendra Prasad Institute of Medical Science here, as the Enforcement Directorate may confiscate assets created by those convicted in the scandal in line with...
Leadership change for AIADMK likely after rout
The rout in the Tamil Nadu Urban local body elections will, in all likelihood, lead to a call for leadership change in AIADMK. Currently, the party is being jointly led by former Chief Ministers O. Panneerselvam and Edappadi K. Palaniswami. In the 2011 Urban local body polls, the AIADMK...
Harish Rawat alleges ballot tampering in U’khand
Congress general secretary Harish Rawat has posted a video on social media that purportedly shows one person at an Army centre ticking and signing several postal ballot papers. Sharing the video on his Twitter handle and Facebook on Tuesday, Rawat said, “Sharing a short video for everyone’s information....
Apna Dal family feud out in open
A family feud is out in the open as Union Minister and Apna Dal chief Anupriya Patel has targeted her estranged sister Pallavi for “having pledged her party at the feet of Samajwadi Party (SP)”. Pallavi, who is the leader of the break-away faction Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), is...
Modi says some parties sympathetic to terrorists
Targeting rival parties at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the Ahmedabad bomb blasts and said some parties are sympathetic to such terrorists and accused the erstwhile Samajwadi Party government of seeking withdrawal of cases against those involved in terror attacks...
CBI questions ex-NSE CEO Ravi Narain
The CBI has questioned former Nation Stock Exchange CEO Ravi Narain in connection with its ongoing probe related to the alleged abuse of colocation facility by an NSE stock broker, officials said Sunday. The CBI investigators lobbed several sharp questions while recording Narain’s statement on the colocation facility and...
Mayawati says she is fighting to form govt like in 2007
BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday alleged that people, especially those belonging to minority communities, are living in fear under the BJP government and promised that her party will work to ensure social justice to all if voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing a rally here, the former chief...
BJP shifts focus to women voters in next phases
With two phases of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections done, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shifted its focus to women voters, bringing in prominent campaigners from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Rajasthan. During the first two phases of the UP polls, a higher percentage of women turned...
Trinamool’s new national panel to meet at Mamata residence
After sweeping the polls to four municipalities, Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee has called a meeting of the party’s national working committee at her residence on Friday at 4 pm. Party insiders said that Banerjee is likely to announce the office bearers of the national panel- party president...
Punjab Congress campaign ends in confusion
With little over two hours left for Punjab elections 2022 campaigning on Friday, the Congress put up a united front with Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi flanked by Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and senior leader Sunil Jakhar. Their smiles attempted to mask the disunity among them that...
Mulayam forgets Akhilesh’s name while campaigning
After Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav ‘forgot’ his son and party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s name while campaigning in Karhal, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hit out at the incident, saying things had ‘really become bad’. Making his first appearance at an election rally, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh...
‘Bhaiya’ remark coming back to haunt Cong in Punjab
With politics heating up in Punjab over Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s remarks over ‘UP, Bihar bhaiyas (brothers)’, one is forced to ask: what lies at the center of this heated debate, and does it signal a major setback for the Congress’s CM face with just two days to...
