Politics
Khushbu in another row over Rs 1,000 monthly ‘alms’
Actress-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar found herself embroiled in a fresh controversy ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls after calling the Tamil Nadu government’s scheme of giving Rs 1,000 monthly to women heads of the family a ‘pitchai’ (alms). Addressing a poll rally in Chennai, the member of the National...
Govt to highlight CAA not to snatch anyone’s citizenship
The notification of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules is both a political and an ideological statement by the BJP as the Narendra Modi government now goes into the 2024 Lok Sabha elections claiming that it has fulfilled all its three big promises during its second term. The first...
BJP seals seat-sharing deal with TDP in Andhra
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday announced his party’s seat-sharing deal with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls as well as the assembly elections in the state. According to the announcement made...
Amit Shah derides AAP-Cong alliance for Delhi as a zero game
Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday took a swipe at the AAP for joining hands with the Congress in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls, saying whether the Arvind Kejriwal-led party forms an alliance with the Congress or merges with it “nothing is going to happen because zero plus...
CAA: Crucial impact on results of at least 8 Bengal seats
The Citizenship Amendment Act, or the CAA, has always been a high-stakes topic in West Bengal and Assam, but multiple surveys by the central government and the BJP stressed on the necessity of its implementation. It is likely to play a crucial role in at least eight Lok Sabha...
Kejriwal asks women not to cook for Modi-chanting husbands
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday urged women voters to cast their vote in large numbers for Aam Aadmi Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at a townhall event — Mahila Samman Samaroh — the Aam Aadmi Party chief told the women that if their husbands...
Himachal police files case against Cong rebel’s father
The Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday registered a case against an independent MLA and the father of a Congress rebel over “electoral offences” related to the recent Rajya Sabha polls in which six party MLAs voted for the BJP candidate from the state. The case against Hamirpur’s independent MLA...
Deve Gowda accuses INDIA Bloc of making a joke of secularism
The JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda said on Saturday that the INDIA bloc is a bundle of groups who have made secularism a joke. In a veiled attack on the INDIA bloc, he reminded them that TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...
Yusuf Pathan to contest from Adhir Ranjan’s constituency
Former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as Trinamool Congress (TMC) Candidate from Berhampore, said party supremo Mamata Banerjee while announcing the names of candidates for all 42 seats of West Bengal. Berhampore is currently held by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and whole...
Cong asks what stops PM from visiting ‘disturbed’ Northeast
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, the Congress on Saturday attacked the Centre over the “increasingly disturbed” situation in different parts of the Northeast, and asked why the PM had not found time to visit the violence-hit Manipur yet. Prime Minister Modi took the elephant...
Shah asks Shinde to change some Sena candidates
In a major development in the seat-sharing talks between the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ in Maharashtra, Union Home Minister Amit Shah advised chief minister Eknath Shinde to ‘change some Shiv Sena candidates’ for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In the 2 hour-long meeting, which was held at Shah’s residence late on Friday,...
RSS meet to deliberate on Sandeshkhali, farmers’ protest
West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali and the uprising by women following the allegations of sexual assault and coerced slavery by local politicians are likely to be at the forefront of discussions in RSS’s ‘Pratinidhi Sabha’ scheduled to be held between March 15 and 18 in Nagpur. Pratinidhi Sabha is the organisation’s...
Sukhu indicates willingness to talk to rebels
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu suggested dialogue as a way out of the crisis triggered last week by six party rebels as he headed Thursday to Delhi for a meeting with the Congress central leadership. As he softened his stand towards the Congress rebels who cross-voted in...
Omar Abdullah cautions against personal remarks on PM
National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah here on Friday said personal attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi backfire for the opposition and slogans about his family only secure a self-goal. Omar Abdullah’s remarks came in response to a question about RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s jibe on the...
BJP, Navin Patnaik’s BJD confirm alliance talks
‘Rising Odisha’ seems to be the central idea of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ‘forging an alliance’ with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Sources told News18 that Naveen Patanaik’s party needs funds for various projects in Odisha and “double engine government will...
Modi meets gang-rape survivors from Sandeshkhali, assures support
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met five gang-rape survivors from Shandeshkhali, shortly after addressing a women’s rally at Barasat in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Wednesday afternoon. He assured them support on behalf of his party (BJP) in their fight for justice against the atrocities meted out to them...
CBI team at Bengal Police HQ for Shahjahan Sheikh’s custody
As the Calcutta High Court’s deadline to hand over TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ended at 4 pm on Wednesday, the teams of the central agency reached the state Police headquarters in Kolkata. Around 4.15 pm, CBI teams arrived at the state headquarters...
Suspension of 7 BJP MLAs from Delhi assembly set aside
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set aside the suspension of seven BJP MLAs from the Legislative Assembly for interrupting Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena’s address at the start of the Budget session. The seven Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs — Mohan Singh Bisht, Ajay Mahawar, O P Sharma,...
