NEW DELHI: Arvinder Singh Lovely on Saturday joined Bharatiya Janata Party days after he resigned as the Delhi Congress chief.Lovely had resigned from Congress state president citing the alliance with AAP as his reason. He said that despite Aam Aadmi Party accusing the Congress over corruption, the grand old party allied with them. “We have…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a rally speech on Saturday, claimed that the previous Congress governments’ approach towards Pakistan was ‘weak’ in handling terrorism issues. He highlighted that past administrations resorted to sending ‘love letters’ to Pakistan, hoping for peace, only to receive more terrorists in response.PM Modi highlighted a significant shift in…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday wrote a letter to Karnanataka chief minister Siddharamaiah and and asked him extend support to victims of Prajwal Revanna‘s sexual assaults.“Congress party has a moral duty to fight for justice for our mothers and sisters. I understand that the Karnataka Government has constituted a Special Investigation Team…
NEW DELHI: 75 International visitors from Election Management Bodies (EMBs) of 23 countries came to India to watch the world’s largest elections unfold, according to the Election Commission press release. “75 delegates representing various EMBs and organisations from 23 countries namely – Bhutan, Mongolia, Australia, Madagascar, Fiji, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Moldova, Tunisia, Seychelles, Cambodia, Nepal,…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and party candidate from Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, Tatiparthi Jeevan Reddy, found himself embroiled in a controversy following an incident where he slapped a woman after she allegedly expressed her intention to vote for the ‘flower’ symbol in the upcoming May 13 election.A video capturing the former minister’s action during…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Saturday lifted the ban on onion export, a move that will bring huge relief to traders in Maharashtra. This also comes just before the next phases of Lok Sabha election, particularly in the onion belts in Maharashtra. In a notification, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) fixed the Minimum Export…
BHUBANESHWAR: Santrupt Misra (58), former HR head of Aditya Birla Group who is contesting the Lok Sabha election on a BJD ticket from Cuttack, has declared assets worth about Rs 461 crore in his poll affidavit, making him the richest candidate to have filed nomination so far in Odisha.Misra joined BJD in Feb after opting…
BHUBANESHWAR: Santrupt Misra (58), former HR head of Aditya Birla Group who is contesting the Lok Sabha election on a BJD ticket from Cuttack, has declared assets worth about Rs 461 crore in his poll affidavit, making him the richest candidate to have filed nomination so far in Odisha.Misra joined BJD in Feb after opting…
Mateen Hafeez, special correspondent at The Times of India in Mumbai, reports on terrorism, underworld, cybercrime and organized crime syndicates. He also writes about the jails in Maharashtra and focuses on human interest stories. He has covered the Ghatkopar bomb blast, Vile Parle bomb blast, Mulund train blast, train serial blasts in 2006, 26/11 terror…
GUWAHATI: Seven women shaved their heads and cycled 19km to promote peace and unity in Manipur on Friday to mark a year of the ethnic conflict in the state, reports Prabin Kalita.The women clad in black rode from Sekmai, a village on outskirts of Imphal, to historic Kangla. They carried placards reading “We want peace”,…
