New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday said the Election Commission must give an explanation to the people of the country as to why it announced the poll schedule for Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat on separate dates even though counting of votes would be held on the same day. Congress’s Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma alleged that […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pull up the Gujarat government to come clean on what it said was a “sloppy investigation process” in the Morbi bridge collapse incident. In a Twitter post, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge levelled a series of allegations. “Rusted cable of the bridge was NOT […]
Hyderabad: Former Navy Chief Admiral L Ramdas joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Telangana on Thursday. The Yatra resumed from Patancheru on the city outskirts Thursday morning and it will halt at Sivampet in Sangareddy district for the night, Congress sources said. “Admiral Ramdas, former Chief of Naval Staff, who […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cited his government’s measures to boost the capital’s development and took a veiled swipe at the AAP dispensation here, wondering how much money should have been spent on advertising these measures of the Centre. Inaugurating 3,024 new flats for those from the Economically Weaker Sections, Modi said […]
Hyderabad: Rahul Gandhi does not like backseat driving or asserting his authority and his greatest value going forward will be to play the role of an “ideological compass” for the Congress, senior leader Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday. A week after Mallikarjun Kharge, the first non-Gandhi president in over 24 years, took charge of the […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police to trace an Indian man and his three-year-old Ukrainian son, who is claimed to have been illegally brought to India during the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war. The court was informed by the child’s mother, a Ukrainian, that she and her ex-husband were divorced and […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed grief at the death of Jambey Tashi, a BJP MLA in Arunachal Pradesh, and said he was a promising leader who was passionate about serving society. Tashi (48) represented the Lumla constituency in Tawang district. “Pained by the untimely demise of Shri Jambey Tashi Ji. He […]
Patna/Lucknow/Hyderabad: An unusually high-pitched campaign for bypolls to seven seats in six states – seen as a battle of prestige for political parties- concluded on Tuesday evening ahead of voting on November 3. Chief ministers and other senior leaders made last-minute appeals to voters for their support in Mokama and Gopalganj of Bihar, Adampur of […]
New Delhi: The layer of acrid smog persisting over Delhi thickened on Tuesday amid calmer winds and raging farm fires in Punjab, with the city recording a 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) of 424, the worst this year. NASA’s satellite images showed a dense cluster of red dots denoting farm fires in Punjab and […]
New Delhi: The winter session of Parliament could be held in the old building as some construction work of the new building may stretch beyond the stipulated completion time, sources said on Monday. The government had aimed at completing the new Parliament building before the winter session which usually starts from the third week of […]