MUMBAI: In the build-up to the final phase of polling for 13 seats in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray ruled out any possibility of a reconciliation with BJP. Responding to PM Modi’s ‘Uddhav Thackeray is not my enemy’ remark, he said such statements suggest nothing but confusion in Modi’s mind. “There is no…
VARANASI: PM Modi on Monday evening kicked off the campaign for the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha election by holding a 5-km-long roadshow in his parliamentary constituency here, on the eve of filing his nomination on Tuesday for a third term.Modi’s roadshow took the same route on which he had held a grand…
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: In a letter addressed to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday sought immediate intervention to curb the alleged misuse of police power against party workers and the hindrance of his election campaign. “It is under very compelling circumstances that I am writing to bring to…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released its party manifesto – ‘Sankalp Patra’ in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP national president J P Nadda and other senior leaders including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, and Ashwini Vaishnaw also marked their presence at the event that took…
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…
