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‘Isolation’ not mandatory for Covid +ve foreign arrivals
Travellers arriving in India from any country who will test positive for COVID-19 shall be treated/isolated as per the laid down standard protocol and will not mandatorily be managed at an isolation facility, authorities have said. According to the revised Guidelines for International Arrivals’ released on Thursday, the new...
Channi alleges ‘conspiracy’ to ‘trap’ him
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday accused the BJP-led central government of hatching a conspiracy to trap him in the case in which raids were conducted by the Enforcement Directorate at many places in the state. He alleged that whenever elections are to take place, the BJP...
BJP strategy to project 2017-like split in Yadav family
After losing three ministers and half a dozen other MLAs to the Samajwadi Party, the BJP is now trying to hit the Yadav clan’s ‘unity’ in an effort to remind people of the situation in 2017 when the bitter divide inside the family had been laid bare. Mulayam Singh...
3.17 lakh new Covid cases, positivity up to 16.41%
India added 3.17 lakh new Covid cases today, taking the tally to 3.82 crore. As many as 491 people have died of Covid during the past 24-hour period, according to the Health Ministry. This includes 134 deaths in Kerala in the last few months, added based on pending appeals...
Ex-U’khand CM says won’t contest polls
Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, who stepped down from his post last year, on Wednesday announced that he will not contest the 2022 assembly elections in Uttarakhand. Rawat announced his decision to his party’s cadres at a “farewell lunch” before writing to the BJP national president, Jagat...
SP MLA quits party, says will work for BJP victory
Samajwadi Party MLA Sharadveer Singh from Jalalabad assembly segment has resigned from the party, saying the SP his has deviated from its ideology and he will work for the victory of the BJP. The lawmaker from the Jalalabad assembly segment in the district quit the party after the denial...
Mulayam’s daughter-in-law joins BJP in high profile poaching
Aparna Yadav, married to Akhilesh Yadav’s brother, joined the BJP today, in a huge blow to the Samajwadi Party just weeks before the Uttar Pradesh election. Aparna Yadav is the wife of Akhilesh Yadav’s brother Pratik Yadav, the younger son of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. BJP leaders,...
Akhilesh to contest in UP assembly election
Akhilesh Yadav, after much dilly-dallying, has likely decided to contest the Uttar Pradesh election, sources said today. He had earlier said he would not contest the polls and would prefer to focus on every seat in the state. Akhilesh Yadav is the Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh in eastern...
SP-RLD justifies poll tickets to candidates with criminal cases
As 27 of the 36 candidates, who featured in the first two lists declared by the Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh face criminal cases, the allies justified giving tickets to them on various grounds, including “doing social work under Covid” and working for the “backward people”. For candidate...
India covid cases up 18% in one day
Over 2.82 lakh new Covid cases were reported in India over the past 24 hours, a rise of 18 per cent from yesterday’s case count. The positivity rate, which is an indicator of the spread of the infection, has climbed marginally from 14.43 per cent to 15.13 per cent....
BJP rethinks campaign strategy amid EC ban on rallies
As the Election Commission extends ban on physical rallies and roadshows till January 22, the BJP has set up teams to supervise the on-the-ground campaigning as part of its strategy to reach out to voters ahead of the upcoming assembly polls. According to sources, BJP national president JP Nadda...
Mamata to campaign for SP; no TMC candidates for UP
Much water has evidently flown down the Ganga, a river that flows through both Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, in the last 10 years after Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee reportedly extended “unconditional support” to Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (DP) for the upcoming state elections and, in the...
TMC, BJP battling internal discord
The big Bengal battle of 2021 is over. But conflicts remain, and this time they are internal. Instead of fighting each other, both the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are having to contend with skirmishes within. It all started in the TMC with its...
Cong video projects Channi as CM face
A video shared by the Congress party on its Twitter handle has triggered speculation as to who will be the Chief Ministerial face of the party in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections. In what is being seen as a snub to state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has...
Akhilesh offers SP ticket to MLA losing Gorakhpur to Yogi
With the BJP deciding to field UP CM Yogi Adityanath from his home turf Gorakhpur (Urban) assembly seat in the February polls, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday sought to woo the sitting BJP MLA Radha Mohan Aggarwal, offering him his party ticket for the seat. Asked about BJP’s...
Akhilesh wants Mamata to campaign for SP
With last year’s assembly election and bypoll wins in West Bengal, chief minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee emerged as a formidable force against the Bharatiya Janata Party that is in power at the Centre and many states. No wonder then that Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh...
UK to freeze BBC funding for 2 years in ‘cultural vandalism’
Britain said on Monday it would freeze funding for the BBC for two years and begin a debate on whether a universal licence fee should continue in the modern television age, drawing opposition complaints of “cultural vandalism”. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries told the parliament that the corporation, at the...
BJP indicates more heads may roll in Uttarakhand
After terminating senior legislator Harak Singh Rawat as minister from the Pushkar Singh Dhami government and also from the primary membership of the party on Sunday night, the ruling BJP in poll-bound Uttarakhand has indicated that it is not going to tolerate “indiscipline” and pressure politics. Continuing with the...
