Congress came to power in Karnataka with SDPI support: Shah

Congress came to power in Karnataka with SDPI support: Shah

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | PTI | Hukkeri (Karnataka)

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday alleged “anti-national elements” belonging to the Social Democratic Party of India were involved in the bomb blast in Bengaluru and claimed Congress came to power in Karnataka with SDPI support. Targeting the Siddaramaiah-led government, he urged it to hand over the probe in the...

Congress attacked Constitution by inserting word secular in Preamble: BJP

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Congress has been against providing reservation to the Dalits and the backwards and the party also “attacked” the Constitution by inserting the word ‘secular’ in the Preamble when it was in power, the BJP alleged on Friday. The BJP’s charge comes at a time when the Congress has been claiming...

TMC MP escapes chopper crash

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

Trinamool Congress MP and Bengali superstar Dev alias Dipak Adhikari had on Friday a narrow escape when the helicopter that he was travelling in suddenly developed snags and smoke started coming out of it mid-air. Dev who was campaigning for his party had gone to Ratua in Malda from where he...

Hindus class II citizens in Didi Bengal: Modi

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Burdwan/Durgapur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invoked Hindutva in Bengal alleging how during the Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress raj the condition of the Hindus had dwindled to that of second class citizens “all for the sake of pursuing its appeasement politics.” The immediate reference of the Prime Minister was an alleged...

Infant thrown to death in Kochi within three hours of birth

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Kumar Chellappan | KOCHI

For the people of Kochi, Saturday May 3, 2024 will remain as an unforgettable and dreadful day for decades to come. The city woke up to the news that an infant, born hardly three hours ago was thrown out of a high rise residential apartment in the uptown Panampilli Nagar...

I wanted to part ways with uncle in 2004: Ajit

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | T N RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai

As the ongoing electoral battle between the members of the Pawar family intensified in Baramati Lok Sabha constituency, breakaway nephew and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar of the NCP on Friday fired a fresh salvo at NCP chief and family patriarch Sharad Pawar, by revealing that he wanted to part...

Ladakh Lok Sabha seat to witness multi corner contest

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

The cold desert region of Ladakh is set to witness a multi-corner contest with the entry of heavyweight rebel candidates in the fray on the last date of filing the nomination papers. Two prominent leaders including Haji Hanifa Jan and social activist Sajjad Kargili filed their nomination papers as Independent candidates...

Shinde emerges strong as BJP settles for 28 LS seats in Maharashtra

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | T N RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai

From the earlier 32 seats that it wanted to contest in the Lok Sabha polls Maharashtra, the big brother BJP has now settled down for 28 seats, leaving the remaining 20 seats to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and NCP (Ajit Pawar). If anything, it is Maharashtra chief minister Eknath...

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