Politics
LG, AAP leaders spar over claims of voting disruptions
The night before the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) V K Saxena and leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) clashed over allegations of voter disruption. In a post on social media, AAP Minister Atishi alleged that the Delhi LG had instructed the police...
Modi says panel to study hosting of Olympics
The successful conduct of the G20 Summit last year has boosted the Indian people’s confidence that the country is ready to host the Olympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an exclusive interview with News18’s Aman Sharma and Payal Mehta on Saturday. He added that he has formed a...
Lalu worked neither for backward classes nor Yadavs: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched a blistering attack on Lalu Prasad, alleging that the RJD chief worked neither for the welfare of backward classes nor the people belonging to his caste ‘Yadav’. Addressing an election rally in favour of senior BJP leader and Union Minister R...
BJP alleges Bengal curbs against PM’s roadshow
Sharing an order issued by the Kolkata Police on May 22, state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday alleged that prohibitory orders under section 144 of the CrPC were imposed in central Kolkata to stop PM Narendra Modi’s roadshow in the city. Quoting Majumdar’s post on X, the Kolkata...
Modi has accepted excise case as ‘fake’, claims Kejriwal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted that the excise policy case is “completely fake” and hence everyone arrested in the matter should be released, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed on Friday. Addressing a press conference virtually, Kejriwal said the BJP has been screaming that there has been a...
Modi says Pakistanis know him to be cause of their worries
Calling himself the biggest reason for Pakistan’s worries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had personally visited Lahore and checked the ‘power’ of the neighbouring country. The Prime Minister’s jibe came in reference to Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s “India should respect Pakistan because it has the nuclear bomb”...
Swati Maliwal says no question of her resigning
Amid the ongoing controversy over the alleged assault at the Delhi Chief Minister’s residence, former Delhi Commission of Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal clarified that she won’t give up her Rajya Sabha seat now. In an interview with ANI, Maliwal, who alleged that she was attacked and assaulted by...
Man behind Metro graffiti against Kejriwal arrested from Bareilly
The Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested a 33-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly for allegedly drawing anti-Arvind Kejriwal graffiti at stations of Delhi Metro and inside its coaches, an officer said. The person who wrote the messages and posted the photographs on his Instagram account has been identified as...
Bengaluru becoming narcotics ‘adda’, alleges BJP
Hitting out at the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka for the alleged “deteriorating law and order situation” in the state, the BJP termed the Silicon City as “Udta Bengaluru” and alleged the city is becoming the “adda” for narcotic substances and rave parties. The development comes after the Bengaluru...
Deve Gowda ‘warns’ grandson to return and face law
Former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda issued a stern warning on Thursday to his grandson, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who faces multiple sexual abuse allegations, urging him to return, surrender to the police, and face the legal process, or face the anger of the...
AAP leaders in huddle before ‘interrogation’ of CM’s parents
As Delhi police gears up to reach chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence and record statement of his parents in Swati Maliwal ‘assault’ case, seniors leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were seen arriving at CM’s house on Thursday, May 23. Gopal Rai, Atishi, Sanjay Singh and Saurabh Bharadwaj...
Modi to begin Punjab campaign amidst farmers stir
PM Narendra Modi will begin his Punjab campaign with a big rally in Patiala and two rallies on Friday in Jalandhar and Gurdaspur amidst tight security to avoid a repeat of 2022 when the prime minister’s cavalcade was disrupted at a flyover near Ferozepur. BJP candidates have been facing...
JD(S) complains against Rahul’s remark on Prajwal rapes
The JD(S) on Wednesday complained to Karnataka DGP Alok Mohan against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly claiming that Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual abuse, has “raped 400 women”. In a complaint, H M Ramesh Gowda, a former MLC and party’s Bengaluru City president...
Punjab Cong chief alleges foreign funding scam by AAP
Punjab Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, exposing the purported foreign funding scam of the Aadm Admi Party (AAP), has told News18 that the party did collect $1.19 lakh through foreign donations as part of his tour to USA and Canada in 2015-16 — all on the “directions” of party...
Shah slams Mamata remark on Ramakrishna Mission
Union Home Minster Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday condemned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remark on Ramakrishna Mission and said that the TMC supremo wants to appease Muslim voters by defaming organisations like Bharat Sewashram Sangh, ISKCON and Ramakrishna Mission. While addressing the media, Shah said, “I...
Kejriwal return pumps up INDIA bloc’s Delhi campaign
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress are busy campaigning for each other’s candidates with just two days left before campaigning ends for Delhi elections. While Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal campaigned for Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar late on Tuesday night after returning from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, Congress leader...
Modi uses successor disclaimer to attack dynastic opposition
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday dubbed the INDIA bloc as a “congregation of scamsters” that was communal, casteist and dynastic to a “severe” degree, “cent per cent”. Modi launched the blistering attack at rallies in Mahrajganj and Purvi Champaran Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar, where he also predicted...
Rajnath parrots Modi’s assault of Pak praise for Rahul
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday attacked Rahul Gandhi, questioning whether a leader who has been “praised by the enemy” be allowed to form the government. Singh, while addressing an election rally in Jharkhand’s Bokaro, was referring to former Pakistan minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry’s praise for the Congress leader....
