NEW DELHI: The electrifying election campaign for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections ended at 5 pm on Wednesday, with top leaders of the BJP-led NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc using all their might to woo voters to their fold.The end of the campaign also marks the commencement of a 48-hour silence period,…
Kottayam: Mary Philip, still sharp and sprightly at 79, has never missed voting in an election, whether for panchayat or Parliament, since she was 18. The matriarch of Padinjare Muthoottil family in Arumanoor, a village 15km from Kottayam town and part of the Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency, Mary diligently keeps track of political and social…
KOLKATA: People unable to maintain peace during a six-hour celebration don’t deserve elected representation, Calcutta high court asserted Tuesday, while expressing dismay over clashes in Murshidabad district of Bengal during Ram Navami festivities on April 17 that left at least 19 wounded.Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya held that Lok Sabha polls scheduled…
JAULA, MUZAFFARNAGAR: Ifever there was a competition for warm, cuddly names to denote the coldest, cruellest irony, ‘Ekta Colony’ in Jaula village of Budhana block would be a prime contender.The rows of broken, brickwalled houses — if it can be called that — with spilling sewage and uneven, narrow paths are where hundreds of those…
AMRAVATI: Twenty-four hours after Election Commission slapped a notice on Uddhav Thackeray for use of ‘Jai Bhavani‘ in its anthem, the Shiv Sena (UBT) president defied the poll panel by vigorously chanting the slogan at a packed Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) meeting at Amravati — the first mammoth show of strength on one platform by…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Monday attacked Congress leader P Chidambaram’s statement that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA) and the three new criminal laws will be revoked if Congress comes to office, calling it as a brazen act of appeasement and the former finance minister’s party has lost nerve after seeing the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that if the Congress came back to power, it would give wealth of people to Muslims citing former PM Manmohan Singh‘s statement about the minority community having the ‘first claim’ on the nation’s resources. He was addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara.“Earlier, when their (Congress) government…
BHUBANESWAR: Most are up to speed about Formula 1. But here comes Formula 9, the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD)’s pattern in announcing its candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.Starting from its initial list unveiled on March 27 (2+7=9), which featured 72 (7+2=9) candidates, the party has maintained this numerical theme…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, suggesting that the grand old party’s grip on power was slipping, and predicted a loss for him in the Wayanad parliamentary seat, akin to his defeat in Amethi in 2019. The “Congress’ sahabzade” will lose the Wayanad parliamentary seat this time, said…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and candidate from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi on Friday employed a novel technique to capture public attention.The Congress party posted a video featuring Rahul Gandhi on X (formerly Twitter), where he can be seen interacting with his pet dog.Rahul Gandhi began by capturing attention with, “Now that I have your focus, I’d…
