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China pledges closer ties with Pakistan during Imran visit
China on Sunday pledged closer cooperation with Pakistan under the USD 60 billion CPEC investment programme and called for resolving the Kashmir issue properly and peacefully while opposing any “unilateral actions” that could complicate the situation as Prime Minister Imran Khan held talks with the top Chinese leadership, including...
Yogi targets Samajwadi Party in Mathura
Mathura, Feb 6: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday attacked the Samajwadi Party (SP), saying while it was in power, money meant for widow pension or the differently abled was distributed among its office bearers. He blamed the riots in Kosi Kalan, disturbances in Agra and Bulandshahr,...
Roadshow, vehicle rallies ban stays; meeting curbs eased
The Election Commission on Sunday extended ban on roadshows, ‘pad yatras’, cycle and vehicle rallies but relaxed norms for indoor and outdoor political meets for polls. In a statement, the EC said restrictions regarding outdoor meetings, indoor meetings, rallies will be further relaxed subject to condition that the number...
2-day national mourning for Lata Mangeshkar
Two-day national mourning will be observed in memory of Lata Mangeshkar who died today in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. She was 92. The national flag will fly at half-mast for two days, as a mark of respect for the legendary singer. Called the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar was...
Sidhu calls Rahul Gandhi ‘leading light’
Ahead of senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Punjab Assembly polls, state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday said everybody will abide by his decision. Gandhi will be visiting Ludhiana on Sunday to hold a virtual rally and announce...
Yogi’s new math predicts landslide BJP victory
Claiming that the BJP was heading to a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the electoral contest now will be “90 percent versus 10 percent” in favour of his party instead of “80 per cent versus 20 per cent”. Emphasising...
Farmers, jobs, abandoned cattle in BJP manifesto
A comprehensive policy on managing and monitoring cattle that cause damage to crops, employment opportunities and a better future for farmers: the BJP is likely to focus on these issues in their ‘Sankalp Patra’, with four days left for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Union...
Azad, Manish excluded from Punjab Cong star campaigner list
Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Lok Sabha MP from the state Manish Tewari are not among the party’s star campaigners for the February 20 assembly election in Punjab. The Congress released its list of 30 ‘star campaigners’ for Punjab, which includes Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Rahul Gandhi....
TMC goes back on ‘one man, one post’ policy after trouble
Confusion is aplomb in the Trinamool Congress after the party on Friday released its candidature list for 108 Kolkata municipalities on Friday, which go to polls on February 27. According to Party General Secretary Partha Chatterjee, MLAs and members from families involved in the party have not received...
Yogi says Jayant Chaudhary a good person in bad company
RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary might be a good person but he is in the wrong alliance, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on Friday. “Chaudhary Charan Singh was a respectable leader. Everyone knows RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary never...
Cong not to announce CMs by rotation in Punjab
Congress today denied rumours of a rotational chief minister arrangement in Punjab. Rahul Gandhi will announce just one name as the chief ministerial candidate tomorrow, sources said. Amidst the heated contest for the top job in the state, there was earlier a buzz that Rahul Gandhi would announce two...
Hijab row in another Karnataka college
This morning, around 40 women students wearing the hijab stood at the gates of the Bhandarkars Arts and Science Degree College in Kundapur, a coastal town in Udupi district of Karnataka, as the staff refused to let them in unless they took off their headscarves. They missed their classes...
Channi’s nephew arrested in illegal sand mining case
The Enforcement Directorate today arrested Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey in a 2018 illegal sand mining case. A lot of politics is being carried out in the name of sand in Punjab recently, which goes to assembly elections soon. The Aam Aadmi Party...
Rahul launches Rs 6K aid scheme for landless in C’garh
Chhattisgarh on Wednesday became the first State in the country to launch a financial assistance scheme –Rajiv Gandhi Bhumiheen Krishi Mazdoor Nyay Yojana, for the landless agri labourers. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a visit to the State launched the scheme which provisions payment of Rs 6,000 per...
SC sets aside HC order for attaching Future, Biyani assets
In a relief for Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, the Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside Delhi High Court order declining stay on an arbitration tribunal decision refusing to interfere with the Emergency Award (EA) of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in favour of Amazon. The top court said...
US says it does not endorse Rahul’s Pakistan, China remark
The US doesn’t endorse Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comment in parliament on India’s foreign policy, the State Department spokesperson has said. Rahul Gandhi while criticising the government over a range of issues yesterday had blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for following a flawed policy, both domestic and international, that...
SP leads in candidates with criminal cases, 38 illiterates also in fray
As many as 156 candidates contesting in the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022 have declared criminal cases against themselves, of whom 121 are facing serious charges, a report by Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms has said. The report has analysed self-sworn affidavits...
US deploys 3,000 troops to E. Europe amid Ukraine crisis
The United States on Wednesday deployed several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe, as the leaders of France and Germany flagged trips to Moscow to address Western fears of an invasion of Ukraine. With Russia refusing to pull back 100,000 troops poised on Ukraine’s borders, 1,000...
