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Amit Shah says bond verdict will bring back black money
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is of the opinion that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down electoral bonds will bring back the reign of black money in politics. Speaking at CNN-News18’s Rising Bharat Summit, Shah said: “The Supreme Court’s decision is binding on all citizens and I respect...
Cong moves Delhi HC against tax re-assessment proceedings
The Congress on Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court against tax re-assessment proceedings against it by the authorities. The matter was mentioned by the counsel for the political party before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora which agreed to list it for hearing...
DMK petitions CEO over use of children in Modi roadshow
The ruling DMK on Tuesday demanded that the Election Commission probe the use of school children by the BJP for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow in Coimbatore and also sought action against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for delivering “hate speech”. Separately, Coimbatore District Collector Kranthi Kumar Pati said...
HC seeks ED stand on Kejriwal’s plea against summons
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the stand of the Enforcement Directorate on a petition by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging the summons issued to him in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. The investigating agency claimed the petition of the AAP national convenor, which also challenges certain...
Pandian predicts three-fourth majority for Patnaik
VK Pandian, long-time aide of Naveen Patnaik and IT Secretary, on Tuesday said his task for the present was to help the Odisha chief minister score his win in the upcoming polls as he asserted that the BJD would win with a three-fourth majority in the state again. The...
Rahul clarifies ‘Shakti’ remark, says Modi twisted it
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of twisting his recent ‘Shakti‘ remark, stirring controversy just before the Lok Sabha elections. “Modi ji does not like my words. He tries to twist my statements and change the meaning, because he knows that I have spoken...
Eshwarappa says he is angry with Yediyurappa, not Modi
Former Karnataka deputy chief minister KS Eshwarappa refused to share the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Shimoga on Monday. While PM Modi addressed a public event in his very own backyard in the run up to Lok Sabha Elections 2024, skipping the event in protest was a...
‘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.’...
Putin warns of World War 3 in first comments after win
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three but said hardly anyone wanted such a scenario. The Ukraine war has triggered the deepest crisis...
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...
Himanta warns Cong MP of legal action over poll bonds charge
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday threatened legal action against Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi over his social media posts alleging corruption by the BJP through electoral bonds. The Congress MP from Nagaon shared a post from a user claiming the Assam government had signed an memorandum of...
Small companies that brought big chunks of electoral bonds
Megha Engineering has gone viral on social media since the Election Commission revealed that the company was among the biggest donors to political parties in the last 5 years. Data released by the poll panel showed that the company donated Rs 966 crore through electoral bonds between April 12,...
