'Election slogan': Cong on Rajnath's 'ready to rectify Agnipath scheme' remarks

'Election slogan': Cong on Rajnath's 'ready to rectify Agnipath scheme' remarks

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

The Congress on Thursday termed as "election slogan" Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's remarks that the government was ready to rectify if there were any drawbacks in the Agnipath scheme, and asserted that the programme will "most definitely" be changed when the INDIA bloc "comes to power" in early June. During a...

'Operation Lotus' underway in Punjab: Saurabh Bharadwaj

'Operation Lotus' underway in Punjab: Saurabh Bharadwaj

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

'Operation Lotus' has started in Punjab, senior AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged on Thursday, a day after the party's lone Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku joined the BJP. 'Operation Lotus' is the term used by opposition parties to describe what they call "poaching" of MLAs by the BJP to topple...

Varun Gandhi pens note for people of Pilibhit after BJP denies him LS poll ticket

Varun Gandhi pens note for people of Pilibhit after BJP denies him LS poll ticket

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | Lucknow

Denied a ticket from Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat, BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Thursday wrote an emotional letter to the people of his constituency in which he asserted that his relationship with them will remain intact till his last breath. Sharing the letter on X, he said, his relationship with Pilibhit...

Encourage fair, transparent legal proceedings: US on Kejriwal's arrest

Encourage fair, transparent legal proceedings: US on Kejriwal's arrest

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | New York

After India summoned a senior US diplomat to lodge a protest over remarks on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Washington on Wednesday stressed that it encourages fair, transparent, timely legal processes and “we don't think anyone should object to that". “We continue to follow these actions closely, including...

Cong's plea against tax re-assessment by IT authorities dismissed by HC

Cong's plea against tax re-assessment by IT authorities dismissed by HC

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected petitions by the Congress challenging the initiation of tax reassessment proceedings against it for a period of four years by tax authorities. A bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav said the pleas were dismissed in terms of its earlier decision refusing...

India, China exchange views on complete disengagement, resolving remaining issues along LAC

India, China exchange views on complete disengagement, resolving remaining issues along LAC

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

The 29th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs has been held and the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on how to achieve "complete disengagement" and resolve the remaining issues along the LAC, the MEA said on Thursday. The key meeting was...

TMC's Mahua Moitra to campaign in Bengal's Krishnanagar on Thursday, skip ED summons

TMC's Mahua Moitra to campaign in Bengal's Krishnanagar on Thursday, skip ED summons

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | Kolkata

TMC leader Mahua Moitra has said she will campaign in her Krishnanagar constituency on Thursday, giving a miss to the Enforcement Directorate summons that asked her to appear for questioning at the ED office in New Delhi. “I will be out for campaigning in the Krishnangar constituency in the afternoon,” she...

FIR lodged against BJP's Dilip Ghosh for remarks on Mamata

FIR lodged against BJP's Dilip Ghosh for remarks on Mamata

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | PTI | Kolkata

An FIR has been lodged against senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh at Durgapur Police Station for his remarks on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, an official said on Thursday. Ghosh has been booked under IPC sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 509 (word, gesture...

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