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Amarinder Singh loses in Patiala
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lost the election today in an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sweep that left the Congress far behind and crushed heavyweight leaders across parties. Amarinder Singh lost in his Patiala Urban constituency to AAP’s Ajit Pal Singh Kohli. The 79-year-old, in a tweet, accepted...
AAP sweeps Punjab to add second state to kitty
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, in its second attempt, has taken Punjab, giving the eight-year-old outfit its second state after Delhi. “This shows AAP is the natural and national replacement of the Congress,” said Raghav Chadha, who ran the Punjab campaign for his party, in an exclusive interview to...
Goa Cong approaches Supreme Court over 2017 defections
The Congress’s Goa unit has approached the Supreme Court over the defection of its 10 MLAs to the BJP in 2017. The Congress’s move came as counting is going in in the Goa assembly elections 2022. In 2017 Goa assembly polls, the Congress had 17 MLAs and BJP 13...
World Bank warns inflation may trigger riots
Soaring energy and food prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could exacerbate existing food security concerns in the Middle East and Africa, and may fuel growing social unrest, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart said. Germany will host a virtual meeting of agriculture ministers from the Group of Seven...
AAP guards Goa candidates after resort move by Cong
A day after Congress moved its MLA candidates in Goa to a resort, the Aam Aadmi Party has also moved to keep its own candidates under guard. Sources say AAP candidates have been put together at certain locations in the state. With predictions of a hung assembly and Congress’s...
Modi, Shah to visit Gujarat to clear ground for polls
After elections in five states draw to a close with the results scheduled on Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party has set eyes on Gujarat assembly polls due later this year. To build steam for the state polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are likely...
Trinamool-MGP coalition may be crucial in Goa
A day ahead of the counting of votes, the marginal players in the coastal state of Goa may emerge as kingmakers in case of a fractured mandate as predicted by the exit polls. While the Trinamool Congress is not commenting on the post-poll scenario, Ashok Tanwar, who was in...
1999 Pak hijacker shot dead In Karachi
Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, one of the hijackers of the IC-814 Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Delhi in 1999, was shot dead in Pakistan’s Karachi, government sources said. The Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, who was living under a false identity “Zahid Akhund” for many years, was shot twice in the head...
Tamil Nadu minister’s daughter elopes, seeks protection
The newly-wed daughter of a Tamil Nadu minister has sought police protection in Bengaluru after eloping with a businessman, sources said on Tuesday. Jayakalyani, a doctor and daughter of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Minister PK Sekar Babu, pleaded before the commissioner of Bengaluru city police Kamal Pant...
Cong back to resort politics in Goa
To prevent horse trading and the repeat of the 2017 fiasco, the Congress top brass has asked its Goa candidates to stay in a hotel until Thursday afternoon, a day after the election results of five states, including the coastal state, will be declared, according to sources. On March...
Nadda gets into ministry making mode
Assembly elections 2022 may have wrapped up in five states, with 48 hours to go for results, but there is no break in sight for BJP chief JP Nadda who is continuing with his tour of various states, meeting party cadre and strategizing for the next round of polls....
Congress stares at tough days ahead
A few hours before the exit poll prediction that Congress could be on its way out in Punjab, a not-so-beaming Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu arrived at the Congress headquarters to attend a membership drive meeting. This was for the first time after the February 20 polls that the...
With ‘hung assembly’ threat Goa CM to meet Modi
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and state BJP President Sadanand Tanawde are in Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, Goa BJP said. The meeting comes after exit poll results on Monday gave the Bharatiya Janata Party a slight edge in the state. Meanwhile, BJP leaders and...
Trinamool MLAs stop Governor from leaving without speech
The West Bengal assembly saw unruly scenes on the first day of the Budget session as BJP members protested in the well of the house over alleged post-poll violence in the recently held local body elections. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked the Governor to deliver his speech, but amid...
China says ready for Ukraine mediation
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Monday stressed that the friendship between Beijing and Moscow was still very strong, despite international condemnation of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, as he said China was open to helping mediate peace. Beijing has walked a tight diplomatic tightrope throughout the crisis, refusing to...
Oil price surges to highest since 2008
Oil prices soared to their highest since 2008 due to delays in the potential return of Iranian crude to global markets and as the United States and European allies consider banning imports of Russian oil. Talks to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers were mired in...
Rupee hits lifetime low at 76.9 per dollar
The Indian rupee hit a lifetime low in opening deals on Monday as a sharp surge in global crude oil prices threatened to push up imported inflation and widen the country’s trade and current account deficits. The partially convertible rupee was trading at 76.92/93 per dollar, after touching 76.96, its weakest level ever....
‘Dialogue stalemate’ between Mamata and Governor
The budget session of the West Bengal Assembly was set to start with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s speech at 2pm. The governor will be welcomed by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with whom he has been embroiled in a war of words. Dhankhar met...
