JAMMU: BJP president JP Nadda on Friday accused National Conference (NC)-Congress combine and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of trying to revive the “era of violence and bloodshed” in J&K.“They are supporting activists working against the country. NC’s manifesto says it will release terrorists (from jails), resume cross-border trade and talks with Pakistan. This is how…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister and BJP‘s state election co-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed the demographic issue in Jharkhand stating that “NRC (National Register of Citizens) will be done and the people whose names will not be there in NRC, we will have to push them away to Bangladesh.”“This will be our policy. Everyone will…
NEW DELHI: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah hit back on BJP chief JP Nadda over his “he is bad in mathematics remarks” and said that math has to do nothing with the Jammu and Kashmir election, it is the Union minister who doesn’t have common sense. Responding to a question, the NC vice-chief on…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Friday summoned Himachal Pradesh cabinet minister Vikramaditya Singh to New Delhi over his remarks on eateries displaying names of owners. After the meeting, Venugopal said that he strongly conveyed the sentiments of the grand old party, stating “no minister or party functionary can can go against the…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured the final vacant position on the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s 18-member Standing Committee without opposition on Friday, as councillors from the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress abstained from the election process. Sunder Singh, the BJP’s nominee, received all 115 votes from the party’s councillors, while…
Hemant Soren (File photo) RANCHI: Jharkhand government raised the farm loan waiver from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh a farmer on Thursday and benefitted around 1.77 lakh farmers the same day.“Farmers are the backbone of the country. They battle financial constraints and weather vagaries to produce food. We have been working to help ‘annadatas’,”…
NEW DELHI: With just days left for Haryana polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday sought to enthuse the BJP cadre saying that the party would get a third term in the state as people realise that its two previous ones marked a break from the corruption which had become the hallmark of the Congresss…
BENGALURU: Congress government in Karnataka withdrew Thursday “general consent” to CBI for any new probe against public servants in the state on the ground that the agency was biased. The step coincides with BJP‘s clamour for a CBI probe into Mysore Urban Development Authority land-allotment case involving CM Siddaramaiah‘s wife. “It’s clear central government isn’t…
JAMMU: Union home minister Amit Shah cautioned Thursday that electing candidates from the NC-Congress alliance and PDP in the ongoing J&K assembly elections would play into Pakistan’s hands. “If they get elected, Pakistan will celebrate,” he said, addressing a BJP campaign rally at Chenani in Udhampur district for the third and final phase of polling…
NEW DELHI: Department-related standing committees of Parliament were announced on Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) B Mahtab will now helm the panel on finance. Crucial committees of external affairs will be chaired by Congress‘ Shashi Tharoor and home will be lead by BJP’s Radha Mohan Das Agarwal.BJP’s Radha Mohan Singh will head defence committee,…
