NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that he does not need the United Nations to tell that the elections in the country should be “free & fair”.Jaishankar, in town to support BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s Lok Sabha campaign, dismissed the UN official‘s remark on elections in India, stating it came in response…
NEW DELHI: Cooch Behar district in West Bengal on Thursday saw a fiery Lok Sabha campaign with back-to-back rallies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Mamata Banerjee as they went all out to woo voters. Addressing his first election rally in the state after announcement of poll dates, PM Modi raised issues like…
NEW DELHI: A 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Thursday hit the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. Strong tremors were felt across the town and also in Manali, which is over 350 km from the town of Chamba. The quake struck around 9.30 pm as confirmed by the National Center for Seismology.On April 1, smaller intensity earthquakes…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Bhartiya Janata Party and said that there will be no democracy left if the trend of arresting chief ministers of opposition parties and later asking them to resign starts.“They will arrest (Tamil Nadu CM M K) Stalin, (Telangana CM)…
NEW DELHI: Keen to tackle voter apathy, particularly in urban settings, the Election Commission will on Friday hold a meeting with municipal commissioners of cities and select district election officers (DEOs) from across 11 states having a history of lowest voter turnout.Among the invitees to the conference are the municipal commissioners of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai,…
NEW DELHI: Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy recently revealed that he ‘experienced hunger‘ for a straight 120 hours when he was hitchhiking in Europe 50 years ago.During his address in a special event ‘Achievements in Food Security: India’s Strides Towards Sustainable Development Goals’, hosted by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN at the…
NEW DELHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and state Congress leaders on Thursday traded barbs accusing each other of being afraid of the BJP. Vijayan said Congress and IUML flags were not used at Rahul Gandhi‘s road show in Wayanad yesterday as the grand old party was scared of the BJP. This evoked a sharp…
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department has issued forecasts predicting a mix of rainfall and heatwave conditions across several states in India.Some parts of India may experience light to moderate rainfall, while others could face high temperatures signaling heatwave conditions. The IMD had previously warned of “extreme heat” in multiple Indian states in the coming…
NEW DELHI: Robert Vadra, husband of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, on Thursday said people of Amethi expect him to contest from the constituency if he decides to take a plunge in electoral politics. Amethi was a traditional Gandhi bastion for a long time. However, in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Smriti Irani defeated Rahul…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said that former chief minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren took assistance of a revenue official and custodian of original government records, Bhanu Pratap Prasad in his alleged “activities linked to illegal occupation, acquisition or possession of proceeds of crime in the form of landed properties.”According to the…
