Mallikarjun Kharge (left), and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Scarred by the Haryana debacle, Congress now is focusing on the “rebel factor” in the ensuing Maharashtra polls.Sources said the appointment of senior leaders as observers in each region of the state is for the primary objective of controlling disappointed ticket aspirants from turning rebels, and persuade…
NEW DELHI: After its shock defeat in Haryana, Congress is faced with the unenviable project of picking its new team of functioanries in the state which will signal that the party has learnt its lessons.Sources said Congress has realised the need to throw the net wide to increase its social appeal, amid repeated evidence that…
Hemant Soren (left), and Tejashwi Yadav. (PTI) RANCHI: While the NDA camp has avoided a major inter-party bickering over its seat-sharing formula for the Jharkhand assembly polls, infighting in the INDIA bloc seems to be out in the open. RJD, a junior constituent of the bloc, threatened to go solo but stopped short of breaking…
Sharad Pawar (left), and Uddhav Thackeray MUMBAI: Crucial meetings of the AICC’s central election and screening committees scheduled for Sunday were abruptly cancelled owing to a lack of consensus on MVA’s seat-sharing formula. These panels will meet in a day or two.According to a Congress office-bearer, the party is prepared for any eventuality if there…
MUMBAI: In the ongoing probe in the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique, Mumbai crime branch on Sunday arrested another key accused involved in the crime, taking the number of arrests to 10.The Anti Extortion Cell arrested Bhagwant Omsingh (32), who runs a scrap shop in Belapur in Navi Mumbai. Amid tight security, he was…
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday expressed “mixed reaction of elation and melancholy” over the Supreme Court judgment upholding the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act.Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of an official function on Sunday, Sarma emphasised that Assamese people would have to…
JAIPUR: The death of a two-year-old boy on Sunday, 17th of its kind in 30 days from a mystery illness, in tribal-dominated Kotra area of Udaipur district, put the Rajasthan health department in a state of panic.“The two-year-old was suffering from fever, cold and cough. He died within two to three days of onset of…
Trudeau and Indian Envoy Verma. NEW DELHI: Describing the charges against him as “politically motivated”, outgoing Indian high commissioner to Canada Sanjay Verma accused Canadian PM Justin Trudeau of destroying the India-Canada political relations. He said Canada was acting on the basis of intel, not evidence, adding Ottawa was only encouraging Khalistan extremists, who were…
A security personnel stands guard as security forces cordon off the area after a terrorist attack, in Ganderbal district, Jammu & Kashmir. (PTI) SRINAGAR: Suspected Pakistani terrorists shot dead six labourers and a doctor, firing automatic weapons around 8.15 pm Sunday at a camp housing workers employed by a private company building a tunnel in…
Two labourers were killed and two injured in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Ganderbal district on Sunday.The terrorists opened fire on the camp housing labourers of a private company working on construction of a tunnel at Gund area in the district, officials told news agency PTI.Two labourers died on the spot while two…
