CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana minister Ranjit Singh Chautala and seven other leaders were expelled by BJP for six years on Sunday, after they decided to contest the October 5 Assembly polls as independent candidates.Haryana BJP said its chief Mohan Lal Badoli had expelled the leaders with immediate effect.Besides Chautala, Sandeep Garg (contesting the polls from Ladwa),…
Amit Shah in Gurgaon (ANI photo) GURGAON: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, will be passed in the winter session of Parliament, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the opposition both inside and outside the House.“Waqf board law… we will fix it in the next session…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Campaigning for the final phase of polling in the three-set J&K assembly elections ended peacefully at 6pm Sunday, marking the start of the mandatory 48-hour silent period before voting on October 1. This round will cover 40 assembly segments across seven districts: Jammu, Udhampur, Samba, and Kathua in Jammu region, and Baramulla, Bandipora, and…
JAMMU: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge was taken ill Sunday on the last lap of campaigning for the assembly elections in J&K, but he resumed his speech soon after receiving medical attention and declared he wouldn’t die before ousting PM Narendra Modi from office.“I am 83 years old…I will stay alive until PM Modi is removed….
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday claimed that during a closed-door meeting, Union home minister Amit Shah instructed BJP leaders to break the Opposition ranks and politically target him and NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar. Thackeray asserted that the people, not the BJP, will determine his political future.According to Thackeray, Shah’s…
Delhi CM Atishi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday moved the Supreme Court against Municipal Corporation of Delhi‘s (MCD) recent standing committee election.The party’s move comes a day after chief minister Atishi said that the AAP would challenge the election for the last seat in the MCD’s standing committee in the…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi came under attack on Saturday for his “naach-gaana” comment on the January 22 consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, with the ruling BJP calling him a “liar of the highest order”.The saffron party also said his comments show the Gandhi family’s real nature and contempt for Hinduism.The…
Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami (File photo) DEHRADUN: A day after Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced plans to introduce a law to curb “illegal purchase” of land in hill areas outside municipal limits and said his government would reclaim such land “illegally purchased by outsiders” to ensure that locals benefit from the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Jammu, promised voters that a full-majority BJP government is on the horizon. He highlighted this as a historic chance for the region to elect its own government and break free from decades of neglect and dynastic politics by Valley-based parties. JAMMU/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wooed…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paid an emotional tribute to late CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury at a condolence meeting, recalling their last meeting and Yechury’s reluctance to go to the hospital despite persistent coughing. “That was the last time I saw my friend,” Gandhi shared, recounting how he urged Yechury to seek medical…
