NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a dig at Prime Minister and said that had Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contested from Varanasi, PM Modi would have lost the constituency by 2-3 lakh votes. Rahul said this while addressing the ‘Aabhaar Sabha’ in Rae Bareli, organised to thank the voters for…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Mohan Charan Majhi has been appointed as the new chief minister of Odisha. Mohan Charan Majhi was elected as the Leader of BJP Legislative Party in Odisha. Mohan Majhi is a four-time tribal MLA from Keonjhar assembly in Odisha. In the 2024 Odisha assembly elections, Mohan Charan Majhi…
NEW DELHI: The Union government is likely to undertake a significant overhaul in the VIP security setup with the induction of new ministers, leading to the transfer of security duties for over a dozen high-risk individuals from the National Security Guard (NSG) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to other paramilitary forces.The ministry of home…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the BJP of hypocrisy when it comes to ‘parivarvad (dynastic politics)’. Rahul alleged that while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has on numerous occasions dismissed the sacrifices of Congress leaders as ‘nepotism‘, the portfolio allocation on Monday saw the distribution of power to a ‘government…
NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old boy has been taken into custody for allegedly sending a hoax email claiming a bomb was on a Toronto-bound Air Canada flight from Delhi, according to police reports on Tuesday. The boy admitted he did it “just for fun” to test if he could be tracked down, authorities revealed.The incident came…
NEW DELHI: Former deputy chief minister of Bihar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday reacted to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks over the prolonged violence in Manipur and said that his statement has come ‘late’. “The Prime Minister has always been silent, whether it’s about the Manipur incident, the attack on our farmer brothers,…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi is all set to visit Varanasi on June 18 to address a farmers‘ conference, the party sources informed on Tuesday. This would mark his first visit to his Parliamentary constituency since taking swearing in as the Prime Minister of India for the third time.The location of PM Modi‘s speech to…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the National Testing Agency (NTA) on a plea seeking a fresh NEET-UG exam 2024 on the grounds of “paper leak” and other “malpractices”.The top court said the “sanctity of the exam seemed to have been affected” so it needed an answer from the NTA….
NEW DELHI: A day after accusing BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya of seeking sexual favour, RSS worker Shantanu Sinha on Tuesday withdrew his allegations against the BJP leader and claimed that his earlier social media post was not aimed to malign Malviya but was posted as a caution not to get entangled in a…
NEW DELHI: Aminul Islam, general secretary of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), on Monday resigned from all party posts after the party lost the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Assam. Islam took responsibility for the party’s performance in the state.“By taking responsibility for the defeat of the party candidates in the Lok Sabha…
