BJP’s all-weather ally in Odisha faces Modi heat

BJP’s all-weather ally in Odisha faces Modi heat

Tuesday, 07 May 2024 | Deepak Kumar Jha | New Delhi/Berhampur

Less than two months before the announcement of Lok Sabha polls, when the BJP and BJD were discussing an alliance in Odisha and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik received praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at public rallies, the latter asserted on Monday that the expiry date of the BJD Government...

EC shows off gargantuan poll exercise to 23 nations

Sunday, 05 May 2024 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi

n Amid Western media, intellectual think tanks, academics, human rights organizations, and other components of civil society and Opposition parties here expressing concerns about the state of democracy, the Election Commission has invited 75 international visitors from election management bodies (EMBs) of 23 countries, including Russia, Australia, Maldives, and Seychelles...

Troubles mount for Revannas

Troubles mount for Revannas

Sunday, 05 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Bengaluru/New Delhi

Former Karnataka Minister and Holenarsipura MLA HD Revanna was arrested from his father and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's residence in Padmanabha Nagar on Saturday evening. The arrest came minutes after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the special court for elected representatives, Bengaluru. Meanwhile, a day after former Congress...

Priyanka's ‘Shahenshah' retort to ‘Shehzada' jibe

Priyanka's ‘Shahenshah' retort to ‘Shehzada' jibe

Sunday, 05 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi/Darbhanga (Bihar)/ Lakhani (Gujarat)

The continuous jibe by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by terming him "shezada" (prince) reached a new zenith on Saturday with the latter's sibling and a general secretary in the grand old party, Priyanka Gandhi, calling the PM as "Shehanshah" (monarch). At the LokS Sabha poll...

Capital gains for BJP  at Congress’ expense

Capital gains for BJP at Congress’ expense

Sunday, 05 May 2024 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi

Turmoil within the INDIA bloc continued in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls as former Delhi Congress president and senior leader Arvinder Singh Lovely along with former Delhi Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan, former MLAs Neeraj Basoya, Naseeb Singh and Delhi youth Congress chief Amit Malik joined the BJP on Saturday. This...

Terror strikes IAF convoy in J&K, one soldier dead

Terror strikes IAF convoy in J&K, one soldier dead

Sunday, 05 May 2024 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

In a stark reminder to the Pulwama terror attack on security personnel in February 2019 ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, an Indian Air Force (IAF) vehicle convoy was attacked in the similar fashion by terrorists in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir late Saturday evening in which one...

CBSE Class XII, X results to be out after May 20

CBSE Class XII, X results to be out after May 20

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | PNS | New Delhi

Amid speculations and rumours about announcement of the exam results by CBSE, the Board on Friday issued a clarification saying the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X and XII results are likely to be announced after May 20. "CBSE Class X and XII results are likely to be announced...

Bengal guv dares TMC to assail him, sees a ‘more sinister plot’

Bengal guv dares TMC to assail him, sees a ‘more sinister plot’

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday rejected the allegations of sexual assault leveled against him as an "absurd drama," a political "storm" — and a conspiracy by some political parties — which he expected and which was used to facing. A day after a woman employee at the Kolkata Raj...

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