New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday launched its latest campaign song, “Dil valo ki Delhi ko ab BJP Sarkar chahiye“, ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled for February 5. The song has been sung by former BJP MP and Bhojpuri singer-actor Dinesh Lal Yadav, popularly known as Nirahua. Delhi BJP president Virendra…
NEW DELHI: Five people from Nepal, including three women, died on Saturday when their SUV overturned in Bihar while returning from the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, police said.The accident happened in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar when the speeding SUV flipped multiple times while trying to avoid a motorcycle and took a sharp turn. There…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission of India alleging “intimidation and harassment” of AAP volunteers by Bharatiya Janata Party workers and the Delhi police. “I am writing to express my grave concern over the intimidation and harassment being meted out to our grass-root volunteers in the…
PRAYAGRAJ: Authorities intensified security and crowd management efforts to prevent overcrowding at the ghats, as an estimated 4 to 5 crore devotees are expected to participate in Basant Panchami sacred bathing ritual this Sunday – the third Amrit Snan of the 45-day Maha Kumbh. More than 7 crore pilgrims had thronged Prayagraj for Mauni Amavasya…
An unimpressed opposition said the BJP govt’s Budget had “no new ideas”, with Congress saying finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was walking a “worn-out path” and not willing to break free as Congress govts had done in 1991 and 2004.Congress said the Budget had nothing to address the “illnesses” of stagnant real wages and a complicated…
AHMEDABAD: Zakia Jafri, the wife of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, died in Ahmedabad on Saturday. She was 86.The former MP was among 69 people killed inside Gulbarg Society in Chamanpura area of Ahmedabad on Feb 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra carnage in which 59…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: An engineer from Hingoli in Maharashtra, who had been missing in Iran for nearly two months, is lodged in a Tehran jail, reports Prasad Joshi. He made a WhatsApp call to his wife Thursday, informing her that he was likely to be released next Tuesday and would return to India.Yogesh Panchal, 33, was…
PUNE/GUWAHATI: Maharashtra reported its fifth death linked to Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and Assam its first on Saturday as a continued uptick in hospitalisations across Pune took the metropolitan region’s caseload to 149, up by nine overnight.A 60-year-old man from Nanded Gaon treated at Pune’s Sassoon Hospital since Jan 16 died around 12.30am, hours before a…
JAMMU: Two robbers with sharp-edged weapons broke into a jewellery shop in the posh Greater Kailash area on Jammu’s outskirts and decamped with 1.5kg gold items worth crores on Saturday.Around 2pm, the armed duo wearing helmets walked into Anand Jewellers near Fountain Chowk. One of the robbers held the only woman employee in the store…
NEW DELHI: Eight Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, a day after resigning from AAP, dealing a fresh blow to the party as it gears up for the February 5 elections.The resignations came after the legislators were denied tickets to contest the upcoming elections. Poll What Is Most Important to…
