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New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan on Thursday administered the oath to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Parth Pawar as a newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Maharashtra at Parliament House. Parth Pawar, 35, took the oath in English in the presence of the Leader of the House J. P. Nadda and Congress Chief Whip Jairam Ramesh and several other leaders. He is the son of NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who passed away in a plane crash earlier this year. Prior to Ajit Pawar ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has suspended former Bhadrak MP Manjulata Mandal and her husband, former Dhamnagar MLA Muktikanta Mandal, for alleged anti-party activities. Party sources indicated that the couple had been engaging with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), actions seen as detrimental to BJD's interests in Bhadrak district. Speculation is rife that both leaders may formally join the BJP in the near future. Manjulata won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bhadrak on a BJD tick ...Read More >
Also Read | Nandigram to Bhabanipur, 5 key seats that will define West Bengal elections "TMC is bringing back that episode in history. A specific religious group will make it impossible for you to survive. There is a conspiracy to wipe out Bengal's culture and honour. Enough is enough. Those who are trying to change the identity of Bengal have to leave for good," Modi said. To be sure, the English version of TMC's document is called "Manifesto 2026" and in Hindi it is titled "Ghoshana Patra, 2 ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday extended warm greetings to the workers of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on the 47th Foundation Day of the party, hailing their dedication and asserting that the BJP has been consistently working to make India self-reliant and progressive. In a post on X, Gadkari wrote, "Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to all the workers dedicated to the resolve of national service on the Founding Day of the Bharatiya Janata Par ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that both Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar are unlikely to respond to the party's recent questions concerning BJP's Puducherry President and Raj Bhavan constituency candidate VP Ramalingam and Latchiya Jananayaga Katchi (LJK) chief Jose Charles Martin hosting a Sri Lankan diplomat in Puducherry. Replying to Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera's post on X, R ...Read More >
Kolkata: Senior West Bengal BJP leader and the party's candidate from Kharagpur Sadar constituency, Dilip Ghosh, has declared total assets of around Rs 2 crore, up from his net worth of Rs 1.82 crore divulged during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which he had unsuccessfully contested from the Bardhaman-Durgapur seat. According to his poll affidavit, his movable assets currently stand at Rs 28.75 lakh, and cash in hand at around Rs 3.5 lakh. His wife, Rinku Majumdar, owns movable assets worth Rs 22.9 ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 5 (PTI) Senior West Bengal BJP leader and the party's candidate from Kharagpur Sadar constituency, Dilip Ghosh, has declared total assets of around Rs 2 crore, up from his net worth of Rs 1.82 crore divulged during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which he had unsuccessfully contested from the Bardhaman-Durgapur seat. According to his poll affidavit, his movable assets currently stand at Rs 28.75 lakh, and cash in hand at around Rs 3.5 lakh. His wife, Rinku Majumdar, owns movable assets w ...Read More >
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a public meeting on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, marking the Bharatiya Janata Party's intensified push ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. The Prime Minister will speak at the BJP's 'Bijoy Sankalpa Sabha' at the historic Ras Mela Grounds, signalling the start of an aggressive outreach campaign in a region that has emerged as a saffron stronghold in recent years and remains a crucial electoral battleground. Elec ...Read More >
New Delhi: Ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, actor Vijay Talapathy is positioning himself as an alternative for the people of the state, where politics has long revolved DMK and Artificial Intelligence ADMK.Due to ideological differences with the NDA and political battle with the DMK, TVK has emerged as the third choice for Tamil voters, fielding candidates in all 234 seats.So, will this experiment live up to Vijay's expectations? Well, there's still a fighting chance.Why does Vijay ha ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, actor Vijay Thalapathy has positioned himself as an alternative for the people in a state where politics, for a very long time, has revolved around the DMK and the AIADMK.With its ideological differences with the NDA and political tussle with the DMK, TVK has emerged as a third option for Tamil voters by fielding candidates on all 234 seats.So, will the experiment live up to Vijay's expectations? Well, there is a fighting chance.Why Vijay st ...Read More >
Chennai Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) president G.K. Vasan in an interview with The Hindu said people of Tamil Nadu are angry as the state missed several schemes due to the DMK government treating the ruling BJP as an "enemy". Expressing confidence that the AIADMK-led NDA, of which his party is a constituent, is the "winning front" in the upcoming Assembly elections, he said the DMK and actor C Joseph Vijay's TVK could fight for the "second position". Edited excerpts In 2016, you refused to ...Read More >
NEW DELHI/VIJAYAWADA: As Parliament on Thursday passed a bill seeking to recognise Amaravati as the sole and new capital of Andhra Pradesh, State IT Minister Nara Lokesh described it as 'homecoming' for its people, who he said had endured four capitals and decades of political uncertainty. "This is our fourth time going through it. It's homecoming. This will definitely put Amaravati on the fast track," Lokesh told reporters in the national capital after the Rajya Sabha passed the Andhra Prades ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh on Thursday described Amaravati getting legal status as the state's sole capital after the passage of Bill in Parliament as "homecoming" for its people, who he said had endured four capitals and decades of political uncertainty. "This is our fourth time going through it. It's homecoming. This will definitely put Amaravati on the fast track," Lokesh told reporters after the Rajya Sabha passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendme ...Read More >
New Delhi: The high-voltage battleground of Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in April election comes as a reminder of the 2016 clash in the same seat that also was much hyped as allegations flew, churning the political waters of West Bengal. Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had then faced challenges from Congress candidate Deepa Dasmunshi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Chandra Kumar Bose. The latter, grandnephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, joined the BJP in 2 ...Read More >
New Delhi/Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday released its fourth list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls, fielding recent Congress entrant Santosh Pathak from Chowringhee and Union minister Shantanu Thakur's wife Soma from the Matua-dominated Bagda seat as it sought to fine-tune its social arithmetic and political messaging. With only six seats left undeclared, the party named candidates for 13 more constituencies, taking the total number of nominees declared so far to 28 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Amazon India on Monday announced 'Zero Referral fee' on more than 12.5 crore products, a move, the ecommerce giant said, aims to accelerate growth for lakhs of sellers across the country. Building on last year's fee revision, the company has expanded zero referral fees coverage more than 10-times from 1.2 crore products in 2025 to over 12.5 crore products priced under Rs 1,000 across 1,800-plus categories, the company said in a release. In addition, Amazon has reduced Ea ...Read More >
Kolkata, March 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Not a single Hindu refugee, taking shelter in West Bengal from a neighbouring country because of religious oppression there, will be deported, Union Home Minister Amit Shah assured on Monday. "The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union Government is in place at the Centre. Not a single Hindu refugee will be deprived of their Indian citizenship or deported," the Home Minister said while addressing a gathering at Raidighi in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on ...Read More >
New Delhi: As the Kamtapur State Demand Council (KSDC) has threatened to field independent candidates in North Bengal in the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly election, the home ministry has called KSDC leaders for crucial talks in the national capital. The invitation from the Home Ministry for talks scheduled for Wednesday assumes significance because the Rajbanshi community influences 22-24 of the total 54 Assembly constituencies in North Bengal. The Kamatapur State Demand Council is an organ ...Read More >
Former railway minister Mukul Roy died in Kolkata in the early hours of Monday, his son confirmed to news agency ANI. He was 71. Roy suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away around 1:30 am at Apollo Hospital in Salt Lake, his son Shuvrangshu Roy said. Once regarded as one of the most influential strategists in the All India Trinamool Congress, Roy's political journey spanned decades of shifting allegiances, high office and legal battles. In 2012, he briefly served as the Union railway ministe ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], November 14 (ANI): Following the National Democratic Alliance (NDA's) projected landslide victory on over 200 seats in the Bihar Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sambit Patra asserted that whenever Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and his party has abused the Prime Minister and his mother, people have given the mandate against them. "I'm seeing it on social media, Congress workers themselves are advising Rahul Gandhi. They ...Read More >
Mukesh Sahani has been named the Deputy Chief Ministerial candidate for the Mahagathbandhan in poll bound Bihar, parties representing the Opposition bloc announced on Thursday. The alliance, which includes the RJD, Congress, Left parties, and Sahani's Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), has already picked Tejashwi Yadav as its Chief Ministerial face. Sahani's selection could be seen as a strategic move to consolidate support among Bihar's fisherman and other backward communities and strengthen the a ...Read More >
Patna: Five years apart, Mukesh Sahani was once again at a press conference organised by the grand alliance ahead of Bihar assembly polls, but there was a stark difference between the two. Before the 2020 election, Sahani, a Bollywood set designer-turned-politician, had walked out of the PC in desperation, alleging that Tejashwi Yadav and his party, RJD, backstabbed him by sidelining him in the seat-distribution deal. But in the PC held on Thursday, he emerged as a victor, as he was declared de ...Read More >
Patna: Days after publicly declaring that he would not contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief Mukesh Sahani has been announced as the Deputy Chief Ministerial face of the INDIA bloc. The alliance, led by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, named Yadav as its Chief Ministerial candidate and Sahani as his deputy face on Thursday, October 23. The announcement was made in Patna by senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, in the presence of Yadav ...Read More >
Patna, Oct 16 (PTI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) made public the names of candidates for all 101 seats it will be contesting in the assembly polls, with more than half of them from the backward and extremely backward classes, besides four Muslims. The party released its second and final list of 44 candidates a day after the first one, even as many of the candidates have been filing their nomination papers, upon receiving the ticket, since Tuesday. The party also came out with a ca ...Read More >
Prashant Kishor has vowed to trounce Tejashwi Yadav like "Rahul Gandhi's defeat in Amethi". Raghopur/Patna: Taking the battle to the enemy's camp, Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday hit the campaign trail from Raghopur, the home turf of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, whom he vowed to trounce like "Rahul Gandhi's defeat in Amethi". The 47-year-old politician received a rousing welcome, with garlands placed around his neck to the tunes of drums beaten by enthusiastic supporters, i ...Read More >
This image was shared on Instagram Former Union Minister Smriti Irani has set the record straight on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal life. The veteran actress dispelled the myth regarding his close relationships, claiming that he is close to nobody in his alleged inner circle. She noted that the people who actually do know him well are rarely in the limelight or featured by the media. During her appearance on Soha Ali Khan's YouTube podcast, Smriti said, "Let me break the biggest myth. ...Read More >
Vijayawada: The YSR Congress has made a dramatic U-turn from its earlier push for three capitals in Andhra Pradesh, with a declaration of clear support for Amaravati as the sole capital. The party's senior leader and state convener, Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, made a sensational announcement during a digital media conclave in Tadepalli on Friday, declaring, "When the party returns to power, administration will be conducted from Amaravati." During the conclave, Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy categori ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) A staggering Rs 42.68 crore of taxpayers' money had to be spent on senior advocates, including Abhishek Manu Singhvi and others, to contest as many as 542 "frivolous and false" cases filed against him during the previous UPA regime, said union Minister for Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Speaking at his residence with Women Journalist Welfare Trust (WJWT), the Minister stressed that such politically motivated litigations not only burden individual public re ...Read More >
Medak: Telangana State BJP President N. Ramchander Rao on Friday appealed to the people to give the committed party an opportunity to meet the aspirations of the poor and downtrodden. Addressing a large gathering of party workers in Medak, the BJP chief remarked that citizens have experienced the rule of the BRS and the Congress party and have had bitter experiences with the deceitful practices of both. He urged people to support the BJP wholeheartedly in the upcoming local body elections as a ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Following heavy rainfall in Hyderabad and other parts of the state, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has instructed the officials to remain vigilant and take proactive measures. The Chief Minister has asked the GHMC, HMDA, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Energy and Police wings to work in coordination during rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit areas. In his directive, Revanth Reddy also ordered the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disast ...Read More >
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