Mumbai: Congress MLA Nana Patole is the party’s candidate for the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker’s election, while the BJP Saturday named Kisan Kathore as its nominee. Election for the post will be held Sunday. “Nana Patole will be our candidate for the Speaker’s election,” a senior...
Read moreMumbai: Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil Saturday said the swearing-in of the Uddhav Thackeray ministry is illegal as it went beyond prescribed format. Ministers while taking oath included names of their leaders and other figures which is not as per protocol, Patil told reporters at...
Read moreNew Delhi: The first phase of polling in Jharkhand recorded a voter turnout of 46.83 per cent at 2p.m. as thirteen constituencies in six districts of the state went to the polls Saturday. According to the Election Commission, Chatra witnessed 46.21 per cent turnout, Gumla...
Read moreRanchi: A voter turnout of 11.2 per cent was recorded till 10 a.m. in the 13 constituencies in six districts of Jharkhand where first phase of Assembly elections were underway Saturday. Maoist-issued threats appeared to have little impact as over 13 per cent voting was...
Read moreRanchi: Maoists Saturday in an attempt to intimidate voters during the first phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections underway in 13 districts, blew up a bridge in Gumla, just before polling began, police said. This bridge ran between Ghaghra-Kathkothwa highway and after Moaists found that there...
Read moreRanchi: Polling began at 7 a.m. Saturday for 13 seats of Jharkhand Assembly polls, said officials. In the first phase, polling is taking place in Maoist affected area amid heavy security arrangements. The polling will continue till 3 p.m.. As many as 189 candidates are...
Read moreNew Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi decided to skip the swearing-in ceremony of Uddhav Thackeray as the Maharashtra chief minister and have conveyed their decision to him. Noting that the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress have...
Read moreMumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, sworn-in Thursday as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, faces the biggest test of his life as the leader of an ideologically divergent alliance which took charge at a time of momentous political changes in the state. An...
Read moreMumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray took oath Thursday as the 18th chief minister of Maharashtra. See link https://twitter.com/i/status/1200061635001569280 Uddhav, 59, became the third Sena leader after Manohar Joshi and Narayan Rane to occupy the top post. He took over as chief minister over a...
Read moreMumbai: With Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray set to be sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister, Thursday, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule turned emotional and said the Sena chief’s father late Bal Thackeray and mother Meenatai Thackeray should have been around this day....
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There are several takeaways from the array of incidents (surrounding some sensational rape cases) that have taken place over the...
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Most policemen do not want to participate in encounters. This has resulted in India producing a category of men called...
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The more notable among reforms brought by the Modi sarkar since 2014 are evident in the way the government functions....
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After five consecutive cuts in interest rates, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), headed...
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