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New Delhi: BJP Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai. BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil...

New Delhi: The State Bank of India (SBI) Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a total of 22,217 electoral bonds were purchased and 22,030  of them were redeemed by political parties between April 1, 2019 and February 15 this year. In a compliance affidavit filed...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for expansion of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) with the addition of three lakh cadet vacancies to cater to its increasing demand from educational institutions throughout the country. From just 20,000 cadets in 1948, the...

New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday announced its second list of 43 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, fielding Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath once again from Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara and Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav from Rajasthan's Jalore. The party's deputy leader in the Lok Sabha...

Chandigarh: The BJP Tuesday named OBC leader Nayab Singh Saini as Haryana's new Chief Minister, hours after the surprise resignation of Manohar Lal Khattar from the post along with his cabinet ministers. Soon after being elected leader of the party's state legislature group, Saini met...

Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet ministers Tuesday submitted their resignations to Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, sources said The development came amid speculation of cracks emerging in the state's ruling BJP and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) coalition over seat sharing ahead...

New Delhi: Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the Centre Monday announced the implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014. With the CAA rules...

New Delhi: The rules for implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) are likely to be notified Monday to facilitate the granting of citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, according to sources. Once the CAA rules are issued, the...

New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court Monday asked the State Bank of India to apprise it about the steps taken so far to ensure disclosure of details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties before the scheme was scrapped last month....

Kolkata: The TMC Sunday announced the candidate list for all 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal, dropping a few sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad. The party renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded...