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Women’s turnout exceeds men’s in 60% seats
At least 60% of seats that went for polls in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections saw higher female turnouts than males, for the first time in the ongoing polls. It was also the second election phase in which the overall women’s turnout surpassed the men’s. On...
Cong attacks Modi over Mahatma Gandhi remarks
The Congress on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that ”the world did not know of Mahatma Gandhi till the film ’Gandhi’ was made” and said those whose ideological ancestors were involved in his assassination can never follow the path of truth shown by the ’Mahatma’....
Tharoor says shocked by arrest of staff member for smuggling
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was shocked to learn that a former member of his staff was detained at the Delhi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle gold. Shiv Prasad, an aide of Tharoor, was caught at the IGI Airport with gold worth Rs 35 lakh. Tharoor said...
ISIS-linked outfit threatens terror attack during India-Pak match
ISIS-K has called for a “Lone Wolf” attack on the India-Pakistan World Cup Cricket match here next month, a top police official has warned while putting security on high alert. In a video that has gone global, the terror group is “calling for that ‘Lone Wolf’ to act out”,...
No bar on PM’s meditation trip despite Cong objections
There is no bar under electoral law on the prime minister to undertake a meditation trip during elections, sources in the know said on Wednesday, amid the Congress’s opposition to Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to Kanyakumari’s ‘Dhyan Mandapam’ from May 30. The Congress on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister...
SC declines to hear Kejriwal’s plea for bail extension
The Supreme Court will not hear Arvind Kejriwal’s request seeking a 7-day extension of his interim bail in a corruption case linked to the Delhi liquor policy. The Court last month granted interim bail to Kejriwal to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections and had asked him to...
Modi accuses TMC of ‘vote jihad’ against backward class people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flayed the TMC government in West Bengal for ”snatching the rights of OBC youths” to facilitate its appeasement politics and “vote jihad”. Addressing an election rally in Barasat, Modi, without naming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, criticised her for questioning the judges...
Delhi Court summons Atishi in defamation case filed by BJP keader
The Rouse Avenue Court issued summons to Delhi Cabinet Minister Atishi in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor over her allegations that the Bharatiya Janata Party attempted to poach AAP MLAs by offering them ‘Rs 20-30 crores’ to join their party. The court directed the...
Prajwal booked on Munich to Bengaluru Friday midnight flight
Suspended JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna, who is facing sexual abuse charges, has booked a return flight ticket to Bengaluru from Munich on May 30, official sources said on Wednesday. According to sources in the Special Investigation Team, the 33-year-old grandson of JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda is expected...
Mani Shankar says IFS was ‘upper caste’ service
Congress leader and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar called the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) of yore an “upper caste” service, which he claimed is becoming more democratic now with the flavour of the country getting into it. Speaking at the launch of author Kallol Bhattacharjee’s “Nehru’s First Recruit” here...
Mamata to skip Kharge’s INDIA Bloc meeting on June 1
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the INDIA bloc meeting on June 1, as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) gears up for the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the state. Citing the ongoing elections and Cyclone Remal, which hit the state Sunday night and...
No question of allowing religion-based reservation: Nadda
BJP president J P Nadda said on Monday that there will be no reservation based on religion as long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party are in power. Accusing the opposition of planning to give reservation based on religion, he said, “It is clearly written in the...
Modi says ‘big fish facing the law’ in zero-tolerance policy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday talked about his government’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption and said that the BJP has focussed on policy-driven governance in the past 10 years. Bringing in the reference of “Khan Market Gang”, the Prime Minister attacked the Opposition for the “glorification of the corrupts”....
Cong leader says CM Mann living like a king
“Captain Amarinder Singh was genuinely feudal but Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is worse. He is living like a king with thousands of security men and misusing state choppers. He is totally disconnected with the people on the ground,” said Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira in an interview with News18...
Row over Mamata’s ‘End of Scriptures’ Remark
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has sparked a row ahead of the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. In a video of a campaign speech, she is purportedly seen talking about the end of religious scriptures such as the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bible, and Quran. The...
Akhilesh says Modi has lost confidence due to fear of loss
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost self-confidence and has been faltering in his speeches upon realising the BJP will not retain power at the Centre, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Sunday. He described the BJP’s allegation that if the INDIA bloc forms government at the Centre it...
Kejriwal seeks 7-day extension of interim bail
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an extension of his bail by 7 days on medical grounds. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) The plea said the chief minister is required to undergo some medical tests and for this purpose, the interim bail,...
Amit Shah blames Rahul for Cong ‘behaviour’ in parliament
Union home minister Amit Shah hit out at the Congress, especially targeting the party’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi, over its “disruptive behaviour” in Parliament. He said the grand old party has changed after the entry of the Gandhi scion and the “standard of politics” has dropped to an all-time...
