Around 60 locations across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were raided by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a massive crackdown against suspects having links with the banned terror outfit ISIS, sources have said. Searches are being carried out in connection with last year’s blasts in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore and...
BJP Karnataka president Nalin Kumar Kateel during his speech at the ‘Vijay Sankalpa Yatra’ in Koppal district has not only spoken about Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan but also attacked former chief minister Siddaramaiah by calling him a “broker” who was previously striking deals with the JDS and now with...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has hit out at Governor RN Ravi over the delay in according assent to the Bill to ban online gambling and regulate online gaming in the state. The state assembly had approved an Ordinance for ban after an expert committee recommended the action...
n Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday sparked a fresh row by claiming that a “blatant intelligence failure” was responsible for the death of 40 CRPF personnel in the Pulwama terror attack of 2019. A tweet by Singh on the fourth anniversary of the suicide bombing of a...
Launching a scathing attack on the Prime Minister over his alleged link with business tycoon Gautam Adani, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the PM “thinks that he is very powerful, but he doesn’t realise that the absolute last thing that I am scared of is Narendra Modi.”...
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday called his state budget a “model” for others to follow and offered to send a copy to the Centre, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi poked fun over a goof-up during his Budget presentation. At a rally in Rajasthan’s Dausa on...
Three years after he teamed up with Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar in an overnight coup to form the government in Maharashtra, deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the exercise had NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s backing. “We had an offer from the NCP that they needed a...
The stand-off between Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi and the state government has intensified with the former’s fresh jibe at Chief Minister MK Stalin that Dalits in the state face atrocities every day. “We have been talking so much about social justice. But, every other day, there are some...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reiterated her call to defeat the BJP in 2024, and said the country should strive to bring in a “people’s government to end anarchy”. Speaking in the Assembly, Banerjee, in an apparent reference to BJP president J P Nadda’s recent remark...
The appointment of a former Supreme Court judge, Justice Abdul S Nazeer, as Governor six weeks after his retirement, has become the latest flashpoint between the Congress and the BJP, reigniting the debate over the mandatory cooling off period for judges post-retirement. The Congress has cited a remark of...