Andhra’s Assembly polls on Monday will decide the fate of not only CM Jagan Mohan Reddy but also the governance model he’s built in the last five years.Soon after taking office in 2019, Reddy initiated a volunteer system akin to ‘customer relationship managers’ at banks. In a bid to create a single-point contact for delivery…
SRINAGAR: Srinagar-Ganderbal LS seat will vote Monday in the first J&K polls since the Aug 2019 abrogation of Article 370.Srinagar will be the first of Valley’s three constituencies to go to the ballot. Two dozen candidates are in the fray. But the contest is largely three-cornered among National Conference’s (NC) Aga Ruhulla, PDP’s Waheed Para…
NEW DELHI: The fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024, a crucial stage, is scheduled for Monday, May 13, across 96 seats in 10 states. This includes all 25 constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 17 in Telangana, along with simultaneous assembly polls for 175 seats in AP. Polling will also take place in 13…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday unveiled “Kejriwal ki Guarantee,” a list of 10 priority tasks that will be undertaken on a war-footing if the INDIA bloc comes to power at the Centre. The INDIA bloc, comprising parties such as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Congress, Trinamool Congress, and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, among…
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: A day after he was released on interim bail by SC to campaign in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Delhi CM and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal fired his first salvo on Saturday, saying PM Modi would retire next year as he turns 75, going by the rule he made for BJP functionaries in…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not take action in response to allegations that industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani were involved in sending black money to the opposition party.Addressing election rallies in Bihar’s Samastipur and Muzaffarpur, Kharge said, “PM Modi says we are silent on Ambani and…
NEW DELHI: The Congress termed the EC’s response to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge‘s letter as a “permanent blot” on the face of a body, which is there to “ensure a level-playing field to all political parties”. Demanding transparency and promptitude” from EC, an INDIA bloc delegation on Friday met the ECI and raised concerns over…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday accused Mallikarjun Kharge of creating impediments in the conduct of free and fair elections as it rejected the Congress chief‘s allegations of mismanagement and delay in release of voter turnout data. The poll body said Kharge’s allegations are unwarranted, without facts and ‘reflective of a biased and deliberate…
MUMBAI: The 2024 Lok Sabha elections have put the spotlight back on the otherwise forgotten Kolis – the fishing community of Mumbai.Considered one of the original inhabitants of the city, Kolis are finding it hard to eke out a living due to overfishing, use of purse seine nets, pollution, steep rise in fuel prices and…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday expressed concerns regarding the alleged discrepancies in the voting data released by the Election Commission of India.In a letter addressed to Sharad Pawar, Kharge questioned the delay in the release of the final voting percentages for the first and second phases of the Lok Sabha elections, suggesting…
