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Ukraine Indian embassy staff family members told to return
India has asked its citizens including students who are living in Ukraine to return if their stay in the east European nation “is not deemed essential”. Family members of Indian embassy staff in Ukraine will also be sent home, sources have told NDTV. In a second advisory today, the...
Russia, France agree to defuse Ukraine crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday agreed to work for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, Macron’s office said. In a phone conversation lasting 105 minutes, they also agreed on “the need to favour a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis and to do everything...
Sidhu losing touch with people, says Congress MP
Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla on Sunday said the party’s chief in Punjab Navjot Singh Sidhu has not been among people in the last five years and his use of sharp language against leaders has upset people, which are likely to affect his chances of victory in the assembly...
Modi says some parties sympathetic to terrorists
Targeting rival parties at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the Ahmedabad bomb blasts and said some parties are sympathetic to such terrorists and accused the erstwhile Samajwadi Party government of seeking withdrawal of cases against those involved in terror attacks...
Akhilesh slams PM’s bomb dig
Akhilesh Yadav today fired back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “terrorists choosing cycles” comment at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh, declaring that an “insult to the cycle is an insult to the entire nation”. The Samajwadi Party leader’s retort was framed in a verse in Hindi on the...
Russia expands military drills near Ukraine
Russia and Belarus are extending military drills that were due to end on Sunday, the Belarus defence minister said, in a step that further intensifies pressure on Ukraine as Western leaders warn of an imminent Russian invasion. The decision to extend the drills was taken because of military activity...
CBI questions ex-NSE CEO Ravi Narain
The CBI has questioned former Nation Stock Exchange CEO Ravi Narain in connection with its ongoing probe related to the alleged abuse of colocation facility by an NSE stock broker, officials said Sunday. The CBI investigators lobbed several sharp questions while recording Narain’s statement on the colocation facility and...
Chouhan likens Akhilesh to Aurangzeb for filial disloyalty
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tore into Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today, comparing him to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. At a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria, Mr Chouhan asked voters whether they can trust someone “who wasn’t loyal to his father”, alluding to Mr Yadav’s fight...
Mayawati says she is fighting to form govt like in 2007
BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday alleged that people, especially those belonging to minority communities, are living in fear under the BJP government and promised that her party will work to ensure social justice to all if voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing a rally here, the former chief...
BJP shifts focus to women voters in next phases
With two phases of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections done, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shifted its focus to women voters, bringing in prominent campaigners from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Rajasthan. During the first two phases of the UP polls, a higher percentage of women turned...
Trinamool’s new national panel to meet at Mamata residence
After sweeping the polls to four municipalities, Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee has called a meeting of the party’s national working committee at her residence on Friday at 4 pm. Party insiders said that Banerjee is likely to announce the office bearers of the national panel- party president...
Punjab Congress campaign ends in confusion
With little over two hours left for Punjab elections 2022 campaigning on Friday, the Congress put up a united front with Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi flanked by Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and senior leader Sunil Jakhar. Their smiles attempted to mask the disunity among them that...
Officials say nothing to worry about Kashmir sinkhole
The sinkhole formed in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir is a naturally occurring geological event and there is no cause for panic or worry, officials said here on Friday. The sinkhole emerged on the Bringi nullah at Wandevalgam in the Kokernag area of the south Kashmir district...
Mulayam forgets Akhilesh’s name while campaigning
After Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav ‘forgot’ his son and party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s name while campaigning in Karhal, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hit out at the incident, saying things had ‘really become bad’. Making his first appearance at an election rally, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh...
US dares Russia on Ukraine, dismisses pullback
The United States said Thursday that Russia is on the verge of unleashing a massive military attack against Ukraine, dismissing Moscow’s claim to be pulling forces back, as artillery fire hit a Ukrainian kindergarten. In a dramatic, previously unscheduled speech to the United Nations in New York, US Secretary...
‘Bhaiya’ remark coming back to haunt Cong in Punjab
With politics heating up in Punjab over Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s remarks over ‘UP, Bihar bhaiyas (brothers)’, one is forced to ask: what lies at the center of this heated debate, and does it signal a major setback for the Congress’s CM face with just two days to...
Akhilesh surrounded by amateurs, says ex-colleague
In Hardoi, the Naresh Agrawal family is the last word in politics. The father-son duo of Naresh and Nitin Agrawal have between them held this seat for 36 out of the last 41 years — and by being in virtually all political parties. But now, both have fallen out...
Amit Shah attacks SP over dynasty politics
As the ‘potato belt’ of Uttar Pradesh goes to polls in the third phase in three days, Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav stepped out on Thursday to campaign for his son and party president, Akhilesh, who is contesting his first-ever assembly election from Karhal constituency in Mainpuri....
