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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...
Sex assault charges against Yediyurappa; rubbished as baseless
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP leader BS Yediyurappa has been charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act over allegations of sexually harassing a teen. The police in Bengaluru’s Sadashivanagar charged the senior BJP leader based on a complaint by the mother of the 17-year-old...
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...
Sukhbir Sandhu, Gyanesh Kumar new Election Commissioners
Bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar have been chosen for the two vacant posts in the top panel of Election Commission of India, Congress’s leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told the media this afternoon. Chowdhury was part of the panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Amit Shah asks Rahul to explain his opposition to CAA
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has dismissed former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his party’s criticism of the Citizenship Amendment Act, rules of which were notified this week. In the interview with ANI, the Union Minister challenged the Congress leader to appear on a public platform and put forth...
Kovind panel submits report on 1 Nation, 1 Poll
The high-level committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind today submitted its report on ‘one nation, one election’. The report was submitted to President Droupadi Murmu this morning. The concept refers to holding simultaneous polls across the country. The proposal is to conduct elections for Lok Sabha and...
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...
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...
