Odisha Assembly polls: BJP names eight more candidates including four turncoats
Bhubaneswar: BJP Saturday announced the names of eight more candidates for the Assembly polls in Odisha, with four of them being former members of the ruling BJD who switched allegiance to the saffron party recently. These turncoats are Seemarani Nayak (Hindol), Arindam Roy (Salipur), Gitanjali Sethi (Kendrapara) and Prasant Jagdev...
Read moreBJP fields 26/11 counsel Ujjwal Nikam from Mumbai North Central
New Delhi: The BJP Saturday dropped incumbent Lok Sabha MP Poonam Mahajan as its candidate from the Mumbai North Central seat and named lawyer Ujjwal Deorao Nikam in her place. Nikam is a well-known name in the legal circle and was a government counsel in the Mumbai terror attack case. Mahajan, the daughter of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, was elected from the constituency in 2014 and 2019. She is also...
Read moreED acted in most highhanded manner in excise policy case, Kejriwal tells Supreme Court
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday told the Supreme Court that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has acted in a "most highhanded manner" in a money-laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam. In a rejoinder to the ED's reply affidavit filed on his petition challenging his arrest in the case, Kejriwal said he has always cooperated with the investigation. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said the ED,...
Read moreMamata Banerjee loses balance while boarding helicopter
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost her balance and fell while boarding a helicopter in Durgapur in Paschim Bardhaman district Saturday afternoon. She was on the way to Kulti for an election rally when the incident happened. "The CM fell inside the helicopter after losing her balance while she was trying to sit. She is fine," a senior officer, who was accompanying Banerjee, told PTI. Following the incident, she...
Read moreTwo CRPF personnel killed in militant attack in Manipur
Imphal: Two CRPF personnel were killed and two others injured as militants attacked a camp of security forces in Manipur's Bishnupur district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The militants attacked an IRBn (India Reserve Battalion) camp at Naranseina in the Moirang police station area, they said. "The militants fired indiscriminately from hilltops, targetting the camp. It started around 12.30 am and continued till about 2.15 am. The militants...
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BJP fields 26/11 counsel Ujjwal Nikam from Mumbai North Central
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Odisha Assembly polls: BJP names eight more candidates including four turncoats
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