UP, 3/5: With speculation swinging like a pendulum for days, Congress on Friday announced the candidature of Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat vacated by his mother Sonia Gandhi, while his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra refused to come under pressure to fight polls. The announcement came barely hours before filing the nominations for…
Morena, 2/5: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said her father inherited not wealth but “martyrdom” from his mother, former prime minister late Indira Gandhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had alleged last week that Rajiv Gandhi abolished inheritance tax after coming to power so that the wealth he had inherited from his mother…
UP, 2/5: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday dropped former president of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Brij Bhushan Singh– who faced allegations of ”sexually assaulting” female wrestlers last year, from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradeshin Uttar Pradesh and instead named his son, Karan Bhushan Singh, as party’s candidate.
Bhubaneswar, 2/4: In a major political development, the BJP on announced the names of candidates for the Assembly elections in Odisha. The saffron party released a list of six candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Odisha The party has fielded, Purnachandra Mohapatra from the Barabati-Cuttack Assembly seat, while Sudhanshu Nayak has been named party…
Amethi, 2/5: With just two days left for filing nominations for Amethi and Rae Bareli, Congress is keeping its cards close to its chest on fielding Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from these traditional Gandhi family pocket boroughs even as hectic parleys were on to finetune its strategy. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had intially…
New Delhi , 2/5: The CBI is not under the ‘control’ of the Union, the Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court while raising preliminary objections on a lawsuit filed by the West Bengal government on the agency going ahead with its probe in several cases without the prerequisite nod from the state. The West…
Holenarasipura (Karnataka), 1/5:: Smoke billowed as ‘Havan’ (fire rituals) flames raged in the scorching summer at JD(S) MLA and former Karnataka Minister H D Revanna’s residence here on Wednesday. Conspicuous was a piece of paper pasted on the wall of his house. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru before leaving for Holenarasipura, Revanna said the SIT…
Hyderabad, 1/5: The Election Commission on Wednesday barred Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K Chandrashekar Rao from campaigning for 48 hours for his “objectionable” remarks against the Congress. The EC said his remarks at a press conference Sircilla on April 5 were violative of the provisions of the model code of conduct and its advisories….
New Delhi, 5/1: TV actor Rupali Ganguly, famous for her roles in TV serials such as Sarabhai vs Sarabhai and Anupamaa, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Wednesday ahead of the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Along with Ganguly, Ameya Joshi, a social worker and astrologer from Maharashtra, also joined the BJP…
New Delhi, 1/5: At least five Delhi schools received bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning, police officials said, but reports suggest that the number could be as high as 100. The Mother Mary School at Mayur Vihar, the Delhi Public School at Dwarka, the high-profile Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri, the Delhi Public School at…
