They studied abroad, have little understanding of country: Dhami slams Rahul, Akhilesh

They studied abroad, have little understanding of country: Dhami slams Rahul, Akhilesh

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | PTI | Lucknow

Uttarakhand Chief Minister and BJP leader Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday attacked INDIA Bloc leaders Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, claiming that they have little understanding of the country as they have studied abroad. In an interview with PTI-Bhasha here, Dhami also alleged that the Congress wants give reservations to a...

Feudal lords raising fear of threat to Constitution: Naqvi

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Taking a swipe at the Opposition, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday claimed that demoralised by the tremendous success of a non-Congress Government, “feudal lords” are raising fear of threat to the Constitution and the democracy.  Addressing “Samajik Samrasta Sammelan” organised by the Bharatiya Bauddh Sangh in the national...

Third phase polls: Nine per cent of total 1,352 candidates women

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Only nine per cent of the 1,352 candidates contesting in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections are women while 18 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves, the ADR said in a new report.   Seven candidates have also declared prior convictions, according to an analysis of details of...

Centre revises limits of children education allowance for its staff

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Centre has revised the limits of children's education allowance and hostel subsidy for its employees, according to a Personnel Ministry order. The move comes following the enhancement of dearness allowance with effect from January 1, 2024.         Citing a 2018 directive, it said the order provides that the limits of children's...

Congress takes dig at Shah's scramble for PM post remarks

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Taking a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's "scramble for Prime Minister's post" remarks, the Congress on Monday said it was an "admission" that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not return for a third term.  The opposition party also claimed that people have seen through the BJP's "sinister plot" to...

Security forces in JK mobilised to neutralise terrorists in Udhampur

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

The presence of two active groups of foreign terrorists, comprising four to six members, in the upper reaches of the Udhampur district has kept the entire security grid on its tenterhooks since late Saturday evening. After receiving inputs about the presence of terrorists in the Basantgarh area the security forces mobilized...

Job scam: SC retains HC order cancelling 26k school jobs

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

The Bengal Government on Monday suffered a big blow with the Supreme Court refusing to put a stay on the Calcutta High Court order cancelling appointments of 25,753 school employees including teachers and non-teaching staff. The only respite the TMC Government got is that the Apex Court stayed a CBI probe...

BJP leader hurt in TMC attack

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Kolkata

While the first two phases of elections remained by far peaceful, violence tended to creep in as electioneering entered parts of South Bengal with a Trinamool Congress worker getting killed in a factional fight in Baguati area of northern Kolkata and a BJP worker getting grievously attacked by the TMC...

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