NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday has announced its candidates for the upcoming assembly by-polls in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh ahead of key elections. In Rajasthan, Karilal Nanoma has been chosen as the party candidate from the Chorasi (ST) seat. In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has fielded seven candidates, including Ramvir Singh Thakur from Kundarki, Sanjeev…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee was suspended for a day following a dramatic altercation during a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Tuesday. Banerjee smashed a glass bottle and hurled it towards the committee’s chairperson, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, injuring himself in the process. Pal condemned the…
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren RANCHI: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and wife Kalpana featured in the first list of 35 candidates released by JMM late Tuesday for the assembly elections on November 13 and 20.Hemant will contest from Barhait (ST) in Sahibganj district and Kalpana from Gandey in Giridih. Basant, Hemant’s younger brother, will also seek…
MUMBAI: Two days after ally BJP released its first list of 99 candidates for assembly polls, Sena named 45 of its nominees, including CM Eknath Shinde, late on Tuesday. All 40 MLAs who had left Uddhav Thackeray and joined hands with Shinde have got tickets, as have all his cabinet ministers.Besides Shinde, who will fight…
NEW DELHI: After much suspense, Sebi chairperson Madhabi Buch is scheduled to appear before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Thursday, a meeting that on agenda is slated to be a performance review of the top regulator, but which may result in fireworks over its functioning as well as about the recent allegations of…
RANCHI/DUMKA: Exit of veteran BJP neta from Santhal Parganas, Lois Marandi, from the party and her aligning with governing JMM Monday has put the saffron camp in a tight spot in Jharkhand ahead of the assembly polls. BJP is seemingly struggling to spot a credible face to field in Barhait, to take on incumbent MLA…
Canada’s New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to journalists before Question Period in the House of Commons foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 2, 2024. (Reuters) TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM LONDON: Canadian NDP MPs speaking during an emergency debate in parliament on foreign interference from the Indian government in Canada have called…
NEW DELHI: It has been six days since the Election Commission announced dates for the Maharashtra assembly elections, but neither the ruling Mahayuti nor the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi has finalised seat-sharing pact for the “maha” battle of ballots. Leaders of both the alliances claim that they are close to sealing a deal, but the…
MUMBAI: In the 99 seats for which BJP announced candidates on Sunday, the party took 5 seats that were contested by the undivided Shiv Sena in 2019. Political observers said this indicates that the CM Eknath Shinde-led Sena may have to compromise on seats and give up several of the seats that the Sena traditionally…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged that the BJP was responsible for the recent violence in Bahraich during a Durga idol immersion procession that led to the death of a 22-year-old man.“Whatever happened in Bahraich was planned by the BJP in view of the upcoming elections in the state,” Akhilesh Yadav…
