Katihar/Patna: Bihar BJP president Nityanand Rai was Thursday mobbed and heckled by supporters of a party rebel, who has filed his nomination as an Independent candidate from Katihar Lok Sabha constituency notwithstanding the seat going to alliance partner JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar....
New Delhi: The CPI(M) Thursday proposed stoppage of mass surveillance, statutory minimum wage of not less than Rs 18,000 per month and curbing monopolies over telecom and internet service platforms in its manifesto for the coming Lok Sabha elections. This is the first time when...
Amethi: Ahead of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s visit to her brother and party president Rahul Gandhi’s constituency, a row broke out Wednesday over some posters questioning her ‘absence’ from the family bastion. The posters, spotted near the Musafirkhana bus stand, carried a sketch...
Lucknow: The BJP appears to have kept the caste factor in mind while picking candidates which will help it reach its ‘target’ of 74 seats from Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections. Of the total 80 seats in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party...
Indore: The Railway Protection Force has booked two Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders for pasting stickers with the slogan ‘chowkidar chor hai’ inside passengers coaches at Indore railway station. An RPF official identified the two as Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) secretary Vivek Khandelwal and city...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Wednesday promised to conduct an investigation into demonetisation and revive the Planning Commission if the opposition alliance comes to power after the Lok Sabha elections. Releasing the party's manifesto, Banerjee said the 100 days'...
Jammu: In a bid to encourage migrant Kashmiri voters to exercise their franchise in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission has opened up various avenues like the digital platform, setting up special polling stations and allowing postal ballots. A scheme was earlier devised...
Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal's newly-floated Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement (JKPM) received a shot in the arm on Wednesday as three-time legislator and former PDP leader Javed Mustafa Mir joined the party. Mir joined the JKPM along with dozens of his workers at...
Chennai: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Wednesday hit out at the ruling BJP, saying the party will be remembered for broken promises made to the people. Addressing a press conference to explain the salient features of the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), he hit out at...
Hyderabad: Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address three election campaign meetings in Telangana April 1. Gandhi will address rallies at Zaheerabad, Wanaparthy (Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha constituency) and Huzurnagar (Nalgonda seat), state Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said. Reddy himself is the party candidate from...
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