Politics
‘Conman’ Sukesh mocks Kavitha, threatens to reveal more
Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who is lodged in Delhi’s Mandoli prison, released another explosive letter welcoming ‘Akkaiah’ K Kavitha to the ‘Tihar Club’ and suggested that he has more information to reveal about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. In his letter addressed to Kavitha, Sukesh, who is currently in jail...
Chavan refutes Rahul’s claim about distress meeting with Sonia
BJP Rajya Sabha member Ashok Chavan, who last month quit the Congress, on Monday said he did not meet Sonia Gandhi before leaving the grand old party and dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s comments in this regard as “baseless”. Addressing a rally in Mumbai on Sunday ahead of the upcoming Lok...
Nitish Kumar no longer Bihar’s Big Brother
The seat-sharing formula among NDA constituents for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections has made one thing painfully clear – Nitish Kumar’s JD-U is no longer the big brother in the eastern state. As per the seat-sharing pact announced by BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde on Monday, the saffron...
BJP accuses Rahul of Hinduphobia over ‘Shakti’ remark
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ concluded with much fervour amid a strong display of opposition unity in the presence of several INDIA bloc leaders but the grand Mumbai rally was followed by yet another controversy causing Gandhi to be labelled with names like ‘Hinduphobic’ and ‘Misogynist.’...
DMK govt’s international summit on Lord Murugan raises eyebrows
As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues its jubilant mood ahead of the general elections, having fulfilled its promise to construct a Ram temple in Ayodhya, the political landscape in Tamil Nadu takes a different turn as the DMK government plans an international conference on Lord Murugan, revered as...
Modi means development, says Naidu after NDA return
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a grand National Democratic Alliance rally ‘Prajagalam’ (the voice of the public), on Sunday evening in Palnadu district. PM Modi, while addressing the people gathered at the rally said that people of Andhra Pradesh have decided to support the NDA’s development agenda in the...
RSS defends electoral bonds scheme as experimental
Electoral bonds scheme is an ‘experiment’ by the government that needs its own system of ‘checks and balances’, said Dattatreya Hosabale, who was re-elected as the general secretary (Sarkaryavaha) of the RSS on Sunday. The organisation has its own modalities of nominating its general secretary once in three years....
Modi says NDA will break all previous records
On the eve of the Parliament poll dates announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the “lotus is going to bloom” in the southern state, and the BJP-led NDA would secure power at the Centre by surpassing previous records in the upcoming polls. He urged Kerala voters...
High drama at Kavitha’s residence during her arrest by ED
BRS MLC K Kavitha, who is also the daughter of party chief K Chandrashekar Rao, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) earlier today following a raid by the probe agency officials at her residence in Hyderabad in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. A video has since...
Doctor clarifies ‘confusion’ over Mamata’s fall and push
A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had a fall at her Kalighat residence ‘due to some push from behind’ leading to injuries on forehead and nose, the director of SSKM Hospital Manimoy Bandyopadhyay on Friday clarified that the CM may have felt ‘a sensation of push’....
Opinion poll suggests massive win for NDA beyond 400
It is ‘Abki Baar 400 Paar’ for the NDA in the 2024 general elections, as per the mega Opinion Poll of News18 whose entire results were put out on Thursday on the network. The big opinion poll predicted that the NDA could win a whopping 411 seats in the...
SC dismisses Manish Sisodia’s curative petition for bail
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s curative petition challenging the top court’s decision to reject his bail plea in liquor policy scam case. According to a report by LiveLaw, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI)...
CAA will never be taken back, declares Amit Shah
Days after the Narendra Modi-led government implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the law will never be taken back, adding that the BJP-led Centre will never compromise with it. Shah, in an interview to news agency ANI, said, “This is our sovereign...
Opinion poll shows majority ‘satisfied’ with Modi Govt
Majority of the respondents to a News18 Mega Opinion Poll ahead of Lok Sabha elections said they were ‘somewhat to very satisfied’ with the performance of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre in the last five years. The option received more favourable responses in North Indian states, followed...
Govt weighed chances of protests before CAA announcement
Banning the Popular Front of India in 2022; identifying “fundamentalist” Muslim groups and locating “trouble zones”; making a covert outreach to some sects and community leaders to convince them that there is no threat to their religious identity or existence – these are some of the steps that the...
Kharge dismisses talk of senior leaders shying away from contesting
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday rejected suggestions that senior party leaders are shying away from contesting the Lok Sabha polls and said that if workers ask him to fight the elections he may do so. He, however, indicated that he may not enter the poll fray this time...
Sons occupy places vacated by fathers in Cong lists
The Congress on Tuesday announced a second list of 43 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Polls. The prominent names included in the list were of former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Gaurav Gogoi; son of Ashok Gehlot, Vaibhav Gehlot and Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath. As per the...
Panneerselvam, Dhinakaran hold seat-sharing talks with BJP
Expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam and AMMK founder TTV Dhinakaran held late night seat-sharing talks with the BJP here for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, with OPS insisting that his candidates will contest from the Two Leaves symbol. The former chief minister O Panneerselvam (OPS) exuded confidence that the...
