Bhubaneswar: The Central Election Committee of Congress Sunday named candidates for seven Assembly seats for Odisha and replaced two nominees while completing the candidate selection procedure for all 136 assembly seats. Pradesh Congress Committee president Niranjan Patnaik has announced his candidature from Bhandaripokhari assembly seat...
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Sunday nominated its Rajya Sabha member Sarojini Hembram from Baripada Assembly seat in Mayurbhanj district. Hembram was first elected on a BJD ticket from Bangiriposi Assembly seat in 2009 and became the minister for textile, handlooms and handicrafts in...
Muzaffarnagar: Several persons were injured in clashes among supporters of Congress's Bijnor candidate Nasimuddin Siddiqui over biryani, which officials said was being served at an election meeting without permission, prompting authorities to lodge a police case and arrest nine. The election meeting was organised at...
Karachi/Mumbai: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has blamed the BJP for ‘whipping up war hysteria’ over claims that India shot down a Pakistani F-16 during a standoff in February. He said ‘truth is always the best policy’. A couple of days back the US.-based ‘Foreign...
New Delhi: With the Lok Sabha polls approaching temperatures on the rise and the politicians are busy attacking each other verbally. But things took a new turn Saturday night when Congress spokesperson and leader Alok Sharma threw a glass of water on the Bharatiya Janata...
Lucknow: Chandra Shekhar ‘Azad’ and Amit Jani are relatively unknown entities in Uttar Pradesh politics. They have hit headlines occasionally with their fledgling outfits but now they are ready to make news with their electoral debuts. Azad who heads the ‘Bhim Army’, a Dalit outfit,...
Sajanagad: Ahead of the elections, the BJP received a major shot in its arm in Nilagiri Assembly constituency in Balasore Saturday when 3,226 BJD leaders and workers joined the saffron party in the presence of Union oil, petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan, party’s...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote Saturday to the Election Commission (EC) protesting transfers of four IPS officers, including Kolkata and Bidhannagar Police Commissioners. The Election Commission’s decision is ‘unfortunate’, highly arbitrary, motivated and ‘biased’ and was taken at the behest of the...
Ahmedabad: All the BJP and Congress candidates, except five, who are in the fray for the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, are ‘crorepatis’, according to the affidavits submitted by them with their nomination papers. Four of the five candidates, whose total assets are less...
Shahjahanpur (UP): A BJP leader has termed gods 'chowkidars' during a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district, according to a video that has surfaced on social media. The video purportedly shows Manoj Kashyap, former convenor of the 'Braj Prant', an unit of the Bharatiya...
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