NEW DELHI: Ex-Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Thursday repeated his charge against Congress leader Bhupinder Hooda and his son Deepender Hooda for “hatching conspiracy” against him through last year’s wrestler protest. Addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda, the BJP leader said the allegations against him was part of…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi met wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia on Tuesday amid speculations that the wrestlers might be nominated as party’s candidates in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections.The Congress party shared a photo of the meeting on its official social media account. The Congress…
PUNE: BJP‘s Maharashtra unit on Tuesday demanded that Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi ‘do penance’ for Jawaharlal Nehru‘s statement “insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj”.“Rahul Gandhi should come to Maharashtra and apologise for Jawaharlal Nehru’s statement that insulted Shivaji Maharaj by calling him a misguided patriot and a treacherous plunderer,” the party’s chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhye…
NEW DELHI: A day after ICICI bank declined Congress‘ allegations of providing regular income to Madhabi Puri Buch while being a whole time member of Sebi, the grand old party came back with more details substantiating its allegations.Pawan Khera said that while ICICI bank’s statement attempted to address the issue, it inadvertently provided additional information…
NEW DELHI: Adani Group‘s proposal to take over the airport in Nairobi, which has drawn protests from transport workers of the African nation, was criticised by the Congress which called it a move that could “convert into anger against India and the Indian Government.” Adani Enterprises has established a Kenyan subsidiary in a bid to…
NEW DELHI: Tariq Hameed Karra, the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief, on Saturday said that the party was ready to contest all 90 seats in the upcoming assembly polls independently. But, the alliance with the National Conference was formed under a “national compulsion”, he added. He asserted that the alliance was forged to…
MUMBAI: Police detained Congress city unit president Varsha Gaikwad, former minister and MPCC working president Nasim Khan and party legislator Amin Patel, among others, on Friday. Congress had planned a protest over the collapse of Shivaji statue in Malvan, and the detentions were made to prevent the agitation from taking place when Modi was in…
SRINAGAR: The Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), founded by former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad just two years ago, has virtually downed its shutters after Azad stepped back from campaigning for party candidates, citing bad health.Azad formed DPAP in Sept 2022 after resigning from Congress, when the Group of 20 within the party resented Congress’…
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee, who has weathered several storms in her long political career, finds herself cornered and isolated over the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital. While the BJP has been mounting relentless pressure on the West Bengal chief minister, her allies from the opposition INDIA…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister who often has held the opposition of admiring Jinnah, picked a similar theme on Wednesday to flay the pack coming all-out at the government on a slew of issues. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath accused the opposition of fearmongering and disturbing the “social fabric” by dividing the nation along the…
