Chandigarh, Apr 2: Politicians are lining up for armoured vehicles this election season, with the major demand for bulletproof cars coming from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, according to a firm in the business. A leading Punjab-based firm engaged in “up-armouring” or retrofitting vehicles to make them bulletproof and […]
New Delhi, Mar 31: There was a time when political parties waited for the Ulema (religious leaders) to support them and fetch the Muslim votes during an election, but in the last couple of years, influence of these appeals have reduced, according to a professor. Hilal Ahmed, associate professor […]
Ahmedabad, Mar 31: Nine persons were injured, two of them seriously, when members of two communities clashed near Viramgam town in Ahmedabad district Sunday, police said. The two groups attacked each other with sticks and pelted stones, a local police official said. A police team too came under attack […]
Imphal, Mar 31: The BJP on Sunday asserted that the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is just a “formality” to re-elect Narendra Modi as the prime minister. The parliamentary election, beginning April 11, will be all about Modi’s performance, leadership and how he wants to take India to the […]
Bengaluru, Mar 31: Congress President Rahul Gandhi Sunday asked leaders and workers of the Congress-JDS alliance in Karnataka to strive unitedly to defeat the Modi government in the Lok Sabha polls. Gandhi’s comments come amid reports of deep resentment in several constituencies among local leaders and workers of the […]
Ahmedabad, Mar 29: Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s hopes of fighting next month’s Lok Sabha polls hit a major roadblock with the Gujarat High Court Friday dismissing his plea to stay his conviction in a 2015 rioting case. April 4 being the last date of filing of nominations in Gujarat, […]
New Delhi, Mar 27: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday slammed the opposition’s criticism over the timing of announcement of ‘Mission Shakti’ as “clerical objections” and asserted that these parties were not at all bothered about national security. Taking on the Congress, Jaitley accused that the erstwhile UPA government of […]
New Delhi, Mar 26: India needs to focus on resolution of farm distress rather than loan waivers which kill the credit culture, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said Tuesday. “First we need to worry about why people are so distressed and angry. There is a lot of agriculture distress. […]
Kolkata, Mar 26: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday described LK Advani as one of the pillars of the BJP and said leaving him out of its candidates list is an insult to the veteran leader. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, said political parties should not ignore […]
Jaipur, Mar 26: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday promised a “surgical strike” on poverty and said his party had been working on how to eradicate it for the last six months. Addressing a rally in Suratgarh a day after declaring his party would roll out a minimum income […]
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