UTTARKASHI: Five individuals have been confirmed killed, and four others are feared dead after a group of 22 “highly experienced” trekkers, aged between 34 and 71, returning from Sahastra Tal, a high-altitude lake 4,232 metres above sea level in Uttarkashi, were struck by adverse weather conditions and strayed off course in the mountains.A collaborative effort…
AYODHYA: “Na Mathura, na Kashi, abki baar Awadhesh Pasi” (Neither Mathura nor Kashi, this time Awadhesh Pasi) — this battle cry of Samajwadi Party triumphed over BJP’s Ram temple gambit in Ayodhya, much to the embarrassment of the saffron camp.Even as BJP played the temple card in a big way across the country in these…
TRICHY: In a likely mistaken identity over similar poll symbols, a 34-year-old employee of a private finance firm secured 14,796 votes as an independent candidate in Trichy Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu even without campaigning.“After filing nomination papers, I informed only my relatives and friends in the constituency. I expected to secure just a…
NEW DELHI: On the day BJP and allies sealed the deal to form the next govt, the opposition said it will take “appropriate steps” in the future to “realise the people’s desire not to be ruled by the BJP govt”, in a clear bid to create uncertainty about the coming NDA regime in which the…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Soon after the battle for Beed LS constituency ended late Wednesday, the opposition NCP (SCP) candidate Bajrang Sonawane, who defeated BJP’s Pankaja Munde — sister of sitting MP Pritam Munde — by a thin margin of 6,553 votes, headed to Antarvali Sarati village in Jalna district and met Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange…
BATHINDA: It has been a long and hard initiation into active politics for 46-year-old Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, who contested as an independent candidate and won the Faridkot parliamentary seat.Sarabjit Singh, who completed his matriculation in 1995, was elected to LS on re-emergence of Panthic politics in Punjab along with self-styled Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who…
MUMBAI: Nota (none of the above) emerged as the third-highest vote-getter in four of six parliamentary constituencies in Mumbai. In the other two, Vanchit Bahujan Agadhi (VBA), led by Prakash Ambedkar, managed to bag more than Nota.Notably, all third-place vote tallies accounted for less than 2% of total votes cast.The 2024 Lok Sabha polls saw…
GUWAHATI: The year-long ethnic conflict in the heart of India’s northeastern region, Manipur, deeply affected its multi-ethnic groups, resulting in the collective mandate of these communities going against NDA as the conflict significantly impacted their lives and changed the political dynamics in the Lok Sabha elections.Kukis, Meiteis, Nagas and Muslims, who historically coexisted in a…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s poll narrative of PDA (Pichhda, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) has come to reflect much more prominently with more than 86% of the party’s elected MPs in Uttar Pradesh coming from OBC, Dalit and Muslim background.SP’s 37 MPs includes 20 from OBC, eight from SC and four from the Muslim community….
BHUBANESWAR: Naveen Patnaik’s uninterrupted 24-year stint as Odisha CM ended Wednesday, 141 days short of eclipsing Sikkim stalwart Pawan Kumar Chamling’s record of chief ministerial longevity, after he handed his resignation to governor Raghubar Das and told his BJD colleagues that there was nothing to be ashamed of in the party’s poll performance.He will continue…
