NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of attempting to cultivate an image as the ‘Hindu hriday samrat‘ (king of Hindu hearts) in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Speaking at a press conference, Tharoor criticized Modi’s electoral strategies, asserting that the…
KOLKATA: A Raj Bhavan employee complained of molestation against state governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday evening, introducing an element of the unprecedented in Bengal politics and pitting the Trinamool government and the governor’s office in direct conflict in the middle of a seven-phase election season.The woman, according to Raj Bhavan insiders, works in…
NEW DELHI: Once again exuding confidence of a comprehensive victory, PM Narendra Modi wrote to NDA candidates in the third phase of polls scheduled for May 7 and said trends emerging from the first two phases were encouraging as people had made up their minds to support the vision of a developed nation by 2047.With…
SOLAPUR: The responsibility of dispensing social justice to oppressed and backward sections is “atonement for the sins our ancestors may have committed”, PM Modi said Monday in a retort to the opposition’s allegation that BJP aims to do away with reservation over the long term.“Check my record over the last five years. I have the…
In an exclusive interview with Diwakar, Akhilesh Singh and Sidhartha, PM Narendra Modi took time off from his hyperkinetic electoral campaign to speak on a range of hot-button topics. Talking after the second round of polls, a confident PM said NDA was well on course to cross the 400+ target, with BJP reaching the 370…
NEW DELHI: Two days after 14 constituencies of Karnataka went to polls in the second phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday is set to hit the campaign in full swing for the BJP in Northern Karnataka. The Prime Minister will hold four back to back rallies to support the efforts of the BJP state…
NEW DELHI: Recalling his solitary confinement and the plight he suffered, Captain Saurab Vasisht and his father have written to PM Modi thanking him for his release along with other Navy personnel from Qatar earlier this year, where they were detained in an alleged case of espionage.“In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, you emerged…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi took a jocular stance on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent accusations of “wealth redistribution” on Saturday, likening them to the ramblings of an uncle at weddings.Addressing a rally in Gujarat’s Valsad, Priyanka Gandhi responded to PM Modi‘s claims by humorously imagining a scenario where an “Uncle Ji” warns about…
NEW DELHI: Armed with a video of his predecessor Manmohan Singh standing by his remark that “minorities, particularly Muslims”, should have first claim on the nation’s resources, PM Modi on Friday claimed vindication and sharpened his “appeasement” charge against Congress and its allies.In the 2009 video, Singh, possibly in response to a question at a…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on the occasion of Italy‘s 79th anniversary of Liberation Day.In a telephone conversation, PM Modi also thanked Meloni for invite to the G7 Summit, which is scheduled to take place in June this year in Italy’s Puglia. The leaders discussed taking…
