NEW DELHI: What was common between Maharashtra and Jharkhand? Cash was king when it came to wooing voters. Direct transfers, under whatever name they be, Ladki Bahin in Maharashtra or Mukhyamantri Maiya Samman Yojana in Jharkhand, have helped parties ride back to power.If PM-Kisan, BJP’s belated attempt to counter NYAY, worked in its favour in…
The Manipur govt extended on Saturday the suspension of mobile internet services for two more days in seven districts – West, Imphal East, Kakching, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur and Kangpokpi, reports Prabin Kalita.Broadband and mobile internet services were initially suspended on Nov 16 following the violence that erupted after the bodies of six Meitei women and…
KOLKATA: At least three nurses of Vidyasagar State General Hospital in Kolkata were thrashed and injured in a rampage late Friday by a mob, after a 32-year-old patient died from double heart attack.One of the nurses needed hospitalisation after the mayhem at the hospital that saw a mob of around 100 people smash chairs and…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said there is no race for the chief minister’s post in Mahayuti.He told TOI, “We have secured an unprecedented victory. It was a tsunami of a different kind, and the entire opposition has almost been wiped out, but there is no race for the CM’s post….
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities have sealed national highways and motorways across the country ahead of a protest rally in Islamabad planned for Sunday by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.PTI’s protest is primarily aimed at putting pressure on the govt to end Imran’s more than one-year-long incarceration on what his party claims…
RANCHI: Hoping to wrest Jharkhand from the Hemant Soren-led JMM govt, the BJP went to the polls with a strong strategy of showcasing cases of poor tribals losing their land to Bangladeshi land grabbers, in a move that eventually backfired with the entire campaign getting lost in translation on ground.And the result was JMM in…
JAMMU: A 72-hour strike by ponywallas, shopkeepers, and proprietors of other businesses at Katra along the route to the Vaishno Devi shrine entered the second day on Saturday, putting pilgrims visiting the holy shrine on Trikuta hills to great inconvenience and hardship.Officials said shops and businesses remained open in Katra town, the base camp, but…
Kozhikode: AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi won Wayanad with a spectacular margin of 4,10,931 votes, surpassing the 3.6 lakh victory margin set by her brother Rahul Gandhi at the same constituency in June 2024. She also increased UDF’s vote share to an all-time high and her thumping victory has reaffirmed that Wayanad is a safe…
TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi reportedly sought advice from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. According to an exclusive report in WSJ, ByteDance-owned TikTok chief executive officer Chew Shou Zi has sought input on US matters from Elon Musk. Tesla CEO has emerged as one of the closest advisers to President-elect Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal…
NEW DELHI: Uddhav Thackeray‘s bold decision to challenge the BJP in 2019 and form an alliance with the Congress and NCP has resulted in a significant electoral setback in the Maharashtra assembly elections, where his Shiv Sena (UBT) secured only 20 out of 95 contested seats. He expressed surprise at the electorate’s dramatic shift in…
