SRINAGAR: A fraught place even in the simpler of times, Jammu and Kashmir was a picture of keen anticipation on the eve of the election results, rife with rumours and agog with controversies that could determine the reaction of the people and the parties to the outcome.In the polls held after a gap long of…
NEW DELHI: Congress, which had claimed a cash crunch ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, has now reported to the Election Commission that it spent around Rs 585 crore on the parliamentary polls and the state polls held alongside. In its election expenditure report for the general election and the assembly polls in Andhra…
NAGPUR: As Maharashtra braces for assembly polls, the state’s political landscape is set for a generational shift, with the polls promising a blend of legacy and ambition, as scions of influential political families step into the limelight, ready to carry forward their dynasty’s mantles. Majority of these are witnessed in Congress and NCP camps from…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the final results of the assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and the state of Haryana, scheduled for October 8, Tuesday. This election is particularly significant as it represents the first in a decade and the first since the abrogation of Article 370 in…
NEW DELHI: Union Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday accused Congress of treating Muslims as mere vote bank and warned Hindus and others not to fall victim to the party’s “divide and rule policies”.Rijiju shared a snippet of his interview with news agency IANS and said,” My warning to the Muslims: Do not become…
NEW DELHI: Calling Modinomics a “curse” to India’s economy, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Sunday said PM Modi‘s “stale lectures with old spins” cannot hide his “outright failures” that have landed all aspects of the economy in crisis. Kharge said household liabilities/indebtedness has grown by 241% from 2013-14 to 2022-23 in actual terms, household debt as…
KASARAGOD: The sessions court in the district acquitted K Surendran, BJP state president, and five others in the Manjeshwar election bribery case on Saturday. Surendran and the other five accused – K Manikanda Rai, BJP Kasaragod secretary, Suresh Naik, Sunil Naik from Yuva Morcha, K Balakrishna Shetty, former BJP district chief, and Lokesh Nonda –…
NEW DELHI: A full-scale conflict between BJP and Congress appears to be looming with the governing party objecting to latter’s plan to get Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to summon Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch to face questions on the regulator’s probe into the allegations against Adani Group and accusing it of using the parliamentary panel…
Congress is set to record a crushing win in Haryana while the NC-led alliance in Jammu & Kashmir could be well placed to form the government in the Union territory, according to exit polls released Saturday.If the polls turn out right – a big if – it would buttress the feeling that momentum is against…
NEW DELHI: Exit polls on Saturday predicted that the Congress will be sweeping back into power in Haryana after a gap of 10 years, while its alliance with the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir seems to be in a strong position and may form the next government, which last held assembly elections 10 years…
