Politics
BJP Leader Shot At, Seriously Injured by Assailants in Kannauj Ahead of UP Panchayat Polls
A BJP leader was shot at and seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Chandapur area of the district, police said on Monday. The 48-year-old BJP leader Neeraj Pandey was shot at on Sunday night while he was returning home after seeking votes for a panchayat poll candidate. Superintendent of...
Those Threatening More Cooch Behar-like Killings Should Be Banned Politically: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders, said on Monday that those threatening of more Cooch Behar-like killings should be banned politically. She wondered what kind of human beings are politicians who say that there will be more Sitalkuchi-like incidents and that...
AAP Will Contest All 40 Assembly Seats in Goa, No Need for Alliance, says Manish Sisodia
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not ally with any other outfit for the 2022 Goa Assembly polls and will contest all 40 seats on its own strength, the party’s senior leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday. He said his party was the alternative...
EC Says No Plan to Club Last 3 Phases of West Bengal Polls, Ends Speculation
The Election Commission on Thursday dismissed speculation that the last three phases of assembly polls in West Bengal could be clubbed in view of the surge in coronavirus cases in the country. Since this morning, there has been speculation in the media that the last three phases of the...
CISF and CRPF Chiefs Refuse to Join Issue with Mamata
The director generals of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have refused to join issue with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the incidents of firing in Cooch Behar district and booth-related tensions during the ongoing assembly elections. “I’ll not comment on...
Amit Shah at Bengal Rally
Seeking to allay fears created among the people of the hills by TMC’s “lies”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Monday that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will have no impact on the Gorkhas. Shah, during an address after a roadshow in Kalimpong, said as long as...
PM Modi, Shah Mentioning Me in Their Rallies A Blessing for Me: Abhishek Banerjee
Trinamool Congress (TMC) parliamentarian Abhishek Banerjee said on Thursday that he considered criticisms by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah as “blessings”, even as he launched a broadside against former party colleague Suvendu Adhikari, who the TMC describes as a “traitor”. In an exclusive interview...
Delhi HC Grants Time to Sonia, Rahul Gandhi, Others to File Replies on Swamy’s Plea in Herald Case
The Delhi High Court Monday granted time to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and others accused in the National Herald case, to file replies on a plea by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy seeking to lead evidence before the trial court. Justice Suresh Kumar Kait listed the matter...
High Court Ruling on Kotkapura Firing Probe Triggers Political Slugfest Ahead of Punjab Assembly Elections
The Kotkapura firing incident that had spelt doom for the Akali government in 2017 Assembly elections is back in focus with the incumbent Congress government is now under fire after a Punjab and Haryana High court order quashed investigation by the State police and ordered constitution of a fresh...
‘Stone-hearted’ KCR Should Release Job Notification to End Suicides, Says YS Sharmila
During her maiden protest demanding to fill up government job vacancies in Telangana, at Dharna Chowk of Indira Park, Y S Sharmila, the sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, hit out at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) for turning a ‘stone-hearted’ leader. When...
