The opposition parties, which met at Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s residence in Patna with the aim of forging a united Opposition front to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, decided on Friday to meet again in Shimla on July 10-12. We will meet again in July in Shimla to...
The BJP will have a “very comfortable victory” in next year’s parliamentary elections and will win 330 seats, party leader and Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday. The BJP won 303 seats out of 543 in the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019. “I think you are not looking at just a victory...
Cape Town: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday took a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the US, saying that he refrains from indulging in politics when he goes abroad and will argue “vigorously” on his return to India. While not naming Rahul Gandhi, Mr Jaishankar said, “I may differ strongly...
DAYS AFTER they threatened to throw their medals into the Ganga, and the night before their five-day deadline for action against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh expired, a delegation of the protesting wrestlers met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his official residence in the Capital late Saturday. The...
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari slammed veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah for criticizing the film ‘The Kerala Story.’ The BJP leader, who also worked as an actor in the past said Naseeruddin Shah may be a good actor, but his ‘intent is not right.’ Manoj Tiwari was responding to the Naseeruddin Shah’s comment on the success of...
Meenakshi Lekhi, accompanied by minister of state for health and family welfare SP Singh Baghel, addressed the media in Agra on Friday on the nine years of the BJP rule at the Centre. Hailing the nine years of prime minister Narendra Modi-led government, Union minister of state for foreign affairs and culture Meenakshi Lekhi said...
AT least two instances of demanding “sexual favours” in lieu of professional assistance; at least 15 incidents of sexual harassment that include 10 episodes of inappropriate touching, molestation that includes running hands over breasts, touching the navel; several instances of intimidation including stalking — and a shared sense of fear and trauma. These form the...
‘Union Minister Anurag Thakur accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of insulting India during his visits abroad over remarks he made at the ‘Mohabbat Ki Dukaan’ event organised by the Indian Overseas Congress USA in Santa Clara in the US state of California on Tuesday. The Congress leader took a swipe at PM Modi and said...
Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced a probe panel led by a retired judge to investigate the widespread violence that Manipur witnessed leading to loss of lives and damage to properties. Six cases pertaining to the violence will be probed by a special CBI team, Amit Shah announced after his three-day visit to the violence-hit northeastern...
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Thursday claimed that the trouble for chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had increased due to the recent developments in court. A court on Thursday allowed Hyderabad businessman P Sarath Chandra Reddy, accused in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise policy scam, to turn approver. Sachdeva said, “Rouse...