NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed the nation marking National Cadet Corps (NCC) Day reflecting on his personal experience as an NCC cadet. He recalled how his NCC experience had been “invaluable” in inculcating “discipline, leadership and service among the youth.”“Today is a very special day. Today is NCC Day. As soon…
NEW DELHI: The euphoria lasted five and a half months flat.After defying the most polarising election campaign by BJP, and posting a creditable performance in the 2024 LS polls that triggered talks of revival and a change in the national mood, Congress Saturday landed back at square one where it had been for a decade.The…
NEW DELHI: After surprise setbacks in several key constituencies in Maharashtra in Lok Sabha polls this year, BJP found itself at a crossroads, needing to recalibrate its strategy to regain lost ground. Polarisation of Muslim votes against it led to significant losses for BJP in at least seven constituencies in the Lok Sabha polls that…
NEW DELHI: Congress couldn’t have imagined a drubbing like the one it got in Maharashtra, where MVA managed only 46 seats – 10 fewer than INDIA bloc’s tally in Jharkhand, where the assembly is less than one-third the size of the western state. Congress’s weakness in straight fights with BJP has also been highlighted again.Coming…
MUMBAI: For the first time in six decades, there will be no leader of opposition (LoP) in the Maharashtra legislative assembly owing to an inadequate number of opposition members.As per the provisions of the Salaries and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in the State Legislature Act, a leader of opposition can be nominated if the…
PUNE: The passage of time seemed momentarily suspended at Bhigwan Chowk, Baramati‘s political epicentre as the constituency stepped into a new chapter on Saturday, with Tennyson’s words echoing powerfully: “The old order changeth, yielding place to new…”By noon, 65-year-old Ajit Pawar, often referred to as ‘Dada’, cemented his position as Baramati’s political heir, defeating nephew…
MUMBAI: Six months is a long time in politics. The ruling Mahayuti had suffered a major setback in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. But it has made a crushing comeback in the assembly elections, winning 230 of the state’s 288 assembly seats – at 80%, that’s more than a three-fourths majority. MVA, which…
NEW DELHI: There is unalloyed joy in BJP over the Maharashtra victory. However, its ally, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, may now have mixed feelings over the result because of the sheer numbers raked in by BJP.After BJP’s best-ever performance in the western state, with the party missing the majority mark of 145 by just 13…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday celebrated BJP’s spectacular win in Maharashtra as a triumph of his platform of unity, development and over INDIA bloc’s politics of “divisiveness, negativity and deceit”, as he sought to elevate his ‘ek hain to safe hain’ theme as the country’s new “mahamantra”.“After Haryana, the biggest message of this…
NAGPUR: While the electoral battle was primarily a Mahayuti versus Maha Vikas Aghadi contest, it was the head-to-head fights between BJP and Congress in 75 constituencies that shaped the larger outcome. BJP emerged victorious in 65 seats of these, leaving Congress with a mere 10.The assembly election, coming months after the Lok Sabha polls in…
