Despite a lower back injury, defence minister Rajnath Singh is keeping a gruelling schedule, criss-crossing the country to campaign for BJP candidates. During his brief stopover a day before his constituency Lucknow was to vote, he spoke to TOI on a diverse set of issues. Excerpts from the interview:BJP’s slogan is ‘400 paar’ for NDA,…
NEW DELHI: The fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections for 49 seats on Monday saw 62.2% turnout (according to data available at 10.30 pm on Tuesday), which may rise marginally when final data is released by EC. In 2019, the polling in this phase was 62.5%.According to data updated by EC on its voter turnout…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Election Commission on Tuesday censured BJP neta and former Calcutta HC judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his “low-level personal attack” on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and debarred him from campaigning for 24 hours from 5 pm on Tuesday.In a strongly-worded order, EC said the BJP candidate’s statement was a “direct affront on the…
NEW DELHI: Posing tough questions to former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren who has challenged his arrest in an alleged money laundering case relating to illegal possession of 8.8 acres in Ranchi, Supreme Court on Tuesday said since the chargesheet had been taken cognisance of, the trial court was prima facie satisfied that an offence was…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over his meetings with Chinese envoys and said the Congress functionary must be having “extra understanding” about the neighbouring country as he had secret meetings with them.In an interview with Times Now, the minister said, “Rahul understands China so much…
PUNE: A prominent builder and father of the 17-year-old boy involved in Sunday’s fatal Porsche Taycan crash was detained Tuesday along with his driver and an associate in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, 240km from Pune. The builder faces charges for allowing his underage son, who lacks a valid driving licence and proper training and consumed alcohol, to…
TIRUPATI/COIMBATORE/HYDERABAD: NIA on Tuesday arrested a techie from Andhra Pradesh‘s Anantapur district and a former convict who was in transit in Telangana in connection with the Rameshwaram cafe blast in Bengaluru on March 1. The probe agency also searched houses of two doctors in Coimbatore.NIA sleuths searched the residence of a retired principal in Rayadurgam…
HYDERABAD: A day after being unable to secure US visa appointments, students from Hyderabad floated on Tuesday an online petition urging the consulate here to open additional visa slots. Some students said they had been trying, unsuccessfully, to book a slot for over six months.The US consulate-general, Hyderabad, responded officially on ‘X’, saying they had…
NEW DELHI: Clash broke out during actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty‘s roadshow in Bengal’s Midnapore after stones were hurled by some unknown persons. Chakraborty was campaigning for Agnimitra Paul, the BJP candidate for the Midnapore Lok Sabha seat. Both Chakraborty and Paul emerged unharmed in the incident.Some people started hurling stones and bottles at the convoy…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the people of the country were his successors as he did not have any other successor. “Modi is a person who does not have any personal “virasat” (legacy). For me, you are my legacy, you are my successors. I don’t have any other successor. So, I…
