RANCHI: ED on Friday started interrogation of arrested Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam in a case related to alleged corruption in his rural development department’s tenders and money laundering, with the sleuths claiming the names of several senior officials have cropped up, report Jaideep Deogharia & Sanjay Sahay.Alam’s questioning continued as rumours swirled of his resignation…
Amit Shah pushes Modi’s re-election, India’s growth, and Odisha’s development. Patnaik challenges BJP’s Odisha promises. VK Pandian defends Naveen babu. Criticism of regional disparities in Odisha. Odia language pride and governance issues highlighted. Source link
MUMBAI: Urging Mumbaikars to come out on Monday and vote breaking all previous records, PM Modi at a rally at Shivaji Park on Friday said he had come “to return Mumbai’s rights to her.” He said the people’s 2019 mandate in Maharashtra had been “stolen” and development stalled but the city, which he said “understands…
LUCKNOW: Defence minister and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh on Friday said Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (POK) was part of India and will remain a part of India.“Following the revocation of Article 370, development has surged at an unprecedented rate in Jammu & Kashmir, prompting even the residents of POK to express their desire to integrate with India. International…
The fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bihar recorded the highest voter turnout of 69.2%. More women voted than men in the second, third, and fourth phases. TOI’s data excluded Srinagar due to delimitation. The turnout calculation includes all registered voters, including those using postal ballots. Source link
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought Election Commission‘s response to the application by an NGO, Association for Democratic Reforms, expressing apprehension about possible replacement of electronic voting machines citing the big increase in final voting percentage figures days after polling.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from ministries of health, agriculture, and the food safety standards authority of India (FSSAI) on a PIL that alleged that govt have failed to stop overuse of pesticides in cultivation of food crops and that it posed a serious health hazard for people.Arguing for petitioner Akash Vashistha,…
BJP will form govt in Odisha with a majority in assembly polls & also win all 21 Lok Sabha seats, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan tells TOI’s Manash Pratim Gohain. Excerpts from the interview:Why is everyone in BJP – from the PM, HM, JP Nadda and you – talking about Odia Asmita on the campaign trail?That’s…
NEW DELHI: OTT services such as WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) may come under a regulatory regime with Trai looking to come with recommendations on the matter. The development assumes significance since govt had kept OTTs out of the regulatory regime in the new telecom act, which was passed recently by the…
CHHAPRA (SARAN): Defying the midsummer sun, all of Khalpura, a Rajput-dominated village, poured out on the streets on Monday (May 13) to welcome Rohini Acharya, daughter of RJD chief and former CM Lalu Prasad and the party’s candidate from Saran. For most people in Bihar, she’s the “kidney girl”.One would think that a political greenhorn…
