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Pudussery Speaker calls emergency meet on civic poll ‘confusion’
The Election Commission of Puducherry has released a revised notification to conduct the civic polls in three phases between November 2 and 13. Election Commissioner of the Union Territory Roy P Thomas said on Friday that the revised poll schedule for elections to five municipalities and 10 commune panchayats...
Advani in 80-member BJP National Executive
New Delhi: BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday announced the 80-member National Executive of the party, with the names of its top brass, ranging from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to many Union ministers, several state leaders and veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi figuring on...
Akhilesh’s SP may have missed the bus to Lakhimpur
With Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi and others from TMC, RLD and AAP taking a trip to Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh after the violence killed eight, including farmers and a journalist, on October 3, main opposition Samajwadi Party seems nowhere to be seen when it comes to meeting the...
Modi completes 20 years in public office
Union Ministers and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he completed 20 years in heading a government – his journey from being the Chief Minister of Gujarat to the PM – on Thursday. His “dedication towards the public” was celebrated by stalwarts of the BJP...
UP Govt allows parties to visit Lakhimpur Kheri
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has now granted permission to all political parties to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died as violence erupted during a farmers’ protest three days back. However, only five people will be allowed at a time, a top official said here. Earlier in the...
Big push to make India global export hub
Union Cabinet on Wednesday has approved the much-awaited scheme to set up mega investment textile parks (MITRA) in India, sources said. The textile ministry will build seven on over acres in the next three years. This move will help to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) into the textile sector...
Posters against Rahul, Priyanka Lakhimpur Kheri visit
Posters and hoardings against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s visit to Uttar Pradesh following the Lakhimpur Kheri incident have come up in Lucknow. The posters have nee put up by Sikh organisations to register their objection to the Gandhi siblings Lakhimpur Kheri visit. The 1984 riots...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partly reconnecting after outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what website monitoring group Downdetector...
Priyanka alleges detention without order
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday why the person behind the killing of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri has not been arrested yet while she has been under “detention for the past 28 hours” without any order or FIR. She was detained...
EC allots party name, symbol to warring LJP factions
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday passed an order allotting ‘Helicopter’ as election symbol to Chirag Paswan’s faction while allotting ‘sewing machine’ to the faction led by Pashupati Kumar Paras. The move comes after the EC, last week, freeze the the symbol of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) amid...
Cong to hold nation-wide protests over farmers’ death
The Congress said it would hold protests outside the offices of all district magistrates across the country on Tuesday to protest against the incident in which farmers were overrun by vehicles driven by elements opposed to the stir. The Congress leaders protested outside UP Bhawan in the national capital...
G23 leaders bracing for a fight
A three-line cryptic letter written by Ghulam Nabi Azad to Congress president Sonia Gandhi during the last week’s Punjab fiasco where he asked on behalf of the G23 to call for an urgent Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting over the presidential election issue. The Congress quickly responded that the...
Opposition leaders congratulate Mamata for landslide victory
New Delhi, Oct 3: A host of opposition leaders on Sunday congratulated Mamata Banerjee on her landslide victory in the Bhabanipur bypoll with a record margin of 58,835 votes. Top Congress leaders were, however, silent on her victory. The party had not put up its candidate against her in...
Leaked records open a Pandora box
Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 different firms located around the world....
Modi says people only level allegations, don’t do ‘research’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that while he attaches big importance to criticism, and respected his critics, there were very few critics and that most people only levelled allegations. In an interview with the Open magazine, PM Modi said, “I feel, and this is my conviction, that for...
Tata wins Air India bid
Tata Sons has finally won the bid for the national air carrier, Air India, according to a Bloomberg report. With this, the privatisation is finally going through and the wait is over. This comes on the back of a panel of ministers accepting the conglomerate’s proposal to take over the airlines,...
BJP questions EC role in Bengal bypolls
The BJP in West Bengal on Friday accused the Election Commission of changing its attitude towards the party within four months and claimed that the election body had undertaken the “responsibility of making Mamata mamata win”. “The commission had the responsibility to make Mamata win and stop the BJP....
Rahul aide to be Punjab Cong in-charge, Rawat for U’khand
Simmering tensions in the Punjab Congress may lead to another big change by the party with Rajasthan minister Harish Chaudhary likely to replace former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat as the Punjab affairs in-charge. Sources said Rawat, too, has requested to be relieved of Punjab duties to focus on...
