NEW DELHI: As the campaign for Gujarat election came to a close on Thursday for the first phase of polling Saturday, a remark by Mani Shankar Aiyar threatened to upset its carefully crafted narrative, leaving it red-faced and scrambling for damage control. Hours after Aiyar, an old Gandhi family loyalist, called Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
CHENNAI: A fierce contest is on the cards for the December 21 RK Nagar bypoll with 59 candidates, including those of ruling AIADMK, DMK and BJP besides sidelined leader TTV Dhinakaran, left in the fray at close of withdrawal of nominations today. According to the final list posted on the website of the Tamil Nadu […]
NEW DELHI: Six left parties today urged the government to punish those responsible for the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and said they would continue to put pressure on it till the guilty were booked. Marking the 25h year of the demolition of the 16th- century mosque as a “Black Day”, the parties, […]
LUCKNOW: Ruling BJP swept the Uttar Pradesh civic polls (UP civic poll) bagging nine of the ten mayoral seats for which results were declared till evening today while leading in six others where the counting was in progress. Opposition Congress again fared poorly, including in its bastion of Amethi, while the BSP had some reason […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress stepped up its offensive against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the Gujarat elections, as party vice president Rahul Gandhi quizzed the BJP leader on promises made in the last polls. Gandhi, who will ask Modi a question every day in the run-up to the Assembly polls, brought up the BJP’s […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he was ready for the big political price he will have to pay for the steps he has taken for the betterment of the country, in a reference to decisions taken to curb black money. He also said that his government is committed to developing a development-centric […]
AGARTALA: Chief Election Commissioner A K Joti today said Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) gadgets with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) would be used for next month’s Assembly polls in Gujarat and in all future elections. The machines run on battery and cannot easily be tampered with, the CEC said at a press conference here. […]
CHENNAI: Voting for the new representative for former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s constituency RK Nagar in Chennai will be held on December 21. The seat has been vacant for a year since the death of Jayalalithaa. Counting of votes and results will be declared on December 24. The announcement of dates comes three days after […]
NEW DELHI: Left leader Sitaram Yechury believes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is like Bollywood’s hit producer-director, Manmohan Desai. Modi gives the people a slogan a day to keep them distracted the way the late director did not allow his audiences to think while they were watching his films, the CPM general secretary claimed at […]
KOLKATA: CPM general-secretary Sitaram Yechury said today there was nothing to celebrate about the Moody’s upgrading India’s sovereign credit rating as the country “lags” behind in all parameters of other global indices. He also criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for delaying the winter session of the parliament and said these were the “signs” that it […]