Politics
Reassuring, Says BJP After PM’s Address to Nation; Congress Blasts Modi for ‘Empty Words’ Amid Dire Condition
New Delhi: Top Union Ministers and senior BJP leaders on Tuesday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on the coronavirus situation as reassuring for the public while highlighting his appeal for maintaining discipline and using lockdown as the last resort. Amid a second wave of the...
TMC Urges Bengal CEO to Club Last Three Phases of Polls Due to Covid Crisis
TMC leader and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee speaks at an election rally. Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee, during her rallies on Monday, had also implored the Election Commission to re-think its decision to stick to the original poll schedule. PTI Last Updated:April 20, 2021, 18:40 IST...
Karnataka Guv Holds All-party Meeting to Discuss Covid-19 Situation, Kumaraswamy Bats for Lockdown
File photo of former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. (PTI) However, Congress party leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah, present in the meeting, did not agree to impose lockdown but called for stringent measures needed to be taken. CNN-News18 Bengaluru Last Updated:April 20, 2021, 19:43 IST FOLLOW US ON:...
BJP Chief Nadda Reviews Bengal Campaign Strategy, Focuses on Virtual Events Due to Covid-19 Surge
File photo of BJP national president JP Nadda. In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rallies which are scheduled to be held on April 23 in Bengal, more than 500 people are not allowed. However, arrangements will be made to make Prime Minister’s speech available for others too in all districts...
Mamata Banerjee Calls Centre’s Universal Vaccine Policy a ‘Hollow Promise’
In a scathing attack, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed the Centre’s “universal vaccine policy” decision from May 1 onwards as “hollow” promise, “without substance” and a “regrettable show of evasion of responsibility” at the time of crisis. In a hard hitting letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Maha Min Nawab Malik Accuses BJP Leader of Distributing Remdesivir to People Illegally
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Tuesday alleged that former BJP MLA from north Maharashtra Shirish Chaudhari illegally distributed to people Remdesivir vials which had not been exported due to a ban on it. However, the BJP dismissed the allegation as baseless. Talking to reporters here, Malik said the Centre...
Is Navjot Singh Sidhu Pitching Himself Against Top Leadership In Punjab Congress?
With no clarity on what his role in the party would be in the run-up to the state Assembly elections, Navjot Singh Sidhu’s sudden ‘burst’ at the political stage is baffling the Congress leadership in Punjab. More so, the recent flurry of political activities carried out by the cricketer-turned-politician...
BJP Accuses Delhi Govt of Failing to Shield People from Covid Surge; AAP Hits Back
The BJP’s Delhi unit on Monday accused the Arvind Kejriwal government of failing to protect the people from surging COVID-19 cases in the city and demanded it to come out with a white paper on preparations made to tackle the deadly virus. BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition in...
Kashmir General in Bengal Battle
After paying obeisance at the Lake Kalibari temple, Lt Gen (retd) Subrata Saha is about to start his campaign for the day as an unconventional Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the urban Rashbehari seat of Kolkata. News18 caught up with him on Sunday to ask him about the Trinamool...
Hired Guns and Goons, Not Top BJP Leaders, are Called Outsiders in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) calls hundreds of thousands of hired “guns and goons deployed in West Bengal” outsiders, but it does not use such a label for leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), chief minister Mamata Banerjee has told News18 in an interview. “We don’t call the Prime...
Priyanka Gandhi Writes to UP CM Asking to Waive off Permission by CMO for Admitting Covid Patients
(Image: Congress/Twitter) In her letter, she also urged the UP CM to release a centralized database of hospitals and available beds The Congress general secretary and in charge of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has written to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath asking him to waive off permission by...
PM Modi’s ‘Political Call’ to Open Vaccination for All and Scale Down Bengal Campaign
Monday was a day of big political calls taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he decided to open up vaccination for all adults from May 1 in the private sector and drastically reduced the scale of his own and BJP’s campaign in West Bengal. Even till a few...
Andhra Pradesh CM’s Sister YS Sharmila Likely to Announce Her Party Today
YS Sharmila, sister of Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy, is likely to announce her party in a public meeting today evening. Sharmila is going to make the announcement in Khammam in presence of her mother YS Vijayamma. She is gearing up to contest 2023 assembly elections, sources said....
Unnao Rape Convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s Wife to Contest on BJP Ticket
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared its list of panchayat poll candidates for five districts that included Sangeeta Sengar, wife of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar who has been convicted in a rape case of a minor. Sangeeta was the Zila Panchayat Chairperson of Unnao from 2016 to 2021...
Priyanka Gandhi Bats for Online Exams, Says CBSE Irresponsible to Force Students to Take Exams
File photo of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The Class 10 exams would be held between May 4 and June 7 and those for Class 12 would be held between May 4 and June 15. PTI New Delhi Last Updated:April 09, 2021, 11:46 IST FOLLOW US ON: Congress general...
EC Notice to Mamata Banerjee Over Remark on Central Armed Forces
The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notice to West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for her alleged statements against central armed police forces deputed on election duty in the state. The notice issued on Thursday night said Banerjee prima facie violated various sections of...
No More Big Rallies in WB, Says BJP; Public Meetings by PM Modi, Other Leaders Capped at 500 People
Amid rising cases of Covid-19 across the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced that it will not hold any big rally or road show in poll-bound West Bengal with immediate effect. The decision by the saffron party comes days before of the end of campaigning for...
‘Jai Shri Ram’ a Slogan of Bengal’s People and Not Coined by BJP, Says Amit Shah
Jai Shri Ram is a slogan of the people of Bengal fighting against injustices and not a political or religious rallying cry crafted by the Bharatiya Janata Party, home minister Amit Shah said on Monday. In an exclusive interview with News18, the senior BJP leader tore into the state’s...
