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Jorhat (Assam) [India], April 4 (ANI): Jorhat has emerged as the focal point of Assam's political battleground, with Gaurav Gogoi turning the constituency into a high-stakes arena that goes far beyond a routine Assembly election. His decision to contest here has injected fresh energy into the race and positioned Jorhat at the centre of a larger power struggle shaping the state's political future. Once a prominent colonial and administrative hub during British rule, Jorhat is now widely recogni ...Read More >
NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said he had voluntarily opted out of contesting the upcoming assembly elections."I had already informed the core committee in writing that I would not contest from any constituency. So, it is not that I was denied a ticket; the truth is that I decided not to contest," he said."Since this has become a topic of discussion in the media, I am clarifying it here. I am grateful to the BJP leadership for respecting my decision and giving me the ...Read More >
Malappuram: A person has been taken into custody after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's gunman and driver were allegedly attacked by a five-member group at Wandoor here, police said on Saturday. According to Wandoor Police, a case has been registered, and one person is currently in custody. Police said the case was registered based on a complaint lodged by Tharoor's gunman, Ratheesh K P. As per the FIR, the incident occurred at Chellithode near Thiruvali in Wandoor at around 7.30 pm on Friday. Poli ...Read More >
Malappuram: A person has been taken into custody after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's gunman and driver were allegedly attacked by a five-member group at Wandoor here, police said on Saturday. According to Wandoor Police, a case has been registered, and one person is currently in custody. Police said the case was registered based on a complaint lodged by Tharoor's gunman, Ratheesh K P.As per the FIR, the incident occurred at Chellithode near Thiruvali in Wandoor at around 7.30 pm on Friday.Police ...Read More >
Navi Mumbai/ Nagothane: A private bus ferrying employees of a Panvel-based firm to Goa for a vacation toppled over in the ghats near Nagothane on the Mumbai-Goa Highway (NH-66) in the early hours on Friday, killing at least two passengers and injuring 9-10 others critically. The accident occurred in the Sukeli Khind section as the driver was speeding and failed to negotiate a sharp bend while going uphill, survivors and police officers said. Inspector Sachin Kulkarni from Nagothane police stati ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Hours after Bharatiya Janata Party left K Annamalai from the candidates list for the upcoming elections, party MP from Karnataka Tejasvi Surya on Friday described the former Tamil Nadu BJP chief as the "most popular leader", claiming that the party has made him responsible for campaigning for all candidates.While campaigning at for the BJP in poll-bound Kerala, Surya said, "Annamalai is the most popular leader of the BJP, not just in Tamil Nadu, but he commands a large following all o ...Read More >
New Delhi/Chennai, Apr 3 (PTI) The Congress on Friday announced a list of 27 candidates for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, renominating 12 sitting MLAs and fielding two women, even as senior leader and MP S Jothimani expressed her reservation over the choice of nominees while the TNCC president offered to step down post-polls following dissent. The national party had been allotted a total of 28 seats by ally DMK, after some hard-bargaining between the traditional allies. While Jot ...Read More >
New Delhi/Chennai, Apr 3 (PTI) The Congress on Friday announced a list of 27 candidates for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, renominating 12 sitting MLAs and fielding two women, even as senior leader and MP S Jothimani expressed her reservation over the choice of nominees while the TNCC president offered to step down post-polls following dissent. The national party had been allotted a total of 28 seats by ally DMK, after some hard-bargaining between the traditional allies. While Jot ...Read More >
Barpeta (Assam), Apr 3 (PTI) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday claimed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has threatened to "break the backbone" of the "Miya community" and asserted that nobody can eliminate Muslims from the state. Addressing an election rally at Chenga constituency in support of incumbent MLA and AIUDF candidate Ashraful Hussain, the Hyderabad MP launched a scathing attack on Sarma and reminded him of maintaining the dignity of the chief minister's office. "I want ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 3 (PTI) A former AIMIM candidate was arrested on Friday over the gherao of the seven judicial officers in Malda district, adding a fresh political twist to the case as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the Asaduddin Owasi-led party, the BJP, and the ISF for "engineering" the unrest. An NIA team visited Mothabari and Kaliachak police stations in Malda to probe the Wednesday incident. The federal anti-terror probe agency has been tasked by the Election Commission to investigate t ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 3 (PTI) Unseasonal rains accompanied by hailstorms and gusty winds have caused extensive damage to crops and disrupted normal life in several districts of Maharashtra over the past few days, with officials on Friday stating that losses on more than 1.22 lakh hectares of land have been reported. Two deaths were reported in rain-related incidents in Nashik division in north Maharashtra, officials said. State Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said the government will provide c ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress Lok Sabha MP Tariq Anwar, on Friday, hit out at veteran party leader Kamal Nath over his remark that there is "no gas or LPG shortage", calling the statement disconnected from ground realities and reflective of a lack of understanding of the hardships faced by common people. Speaking to IANS, Anwar said such claims were "laughable" and urged those making them to step out and witness the situation firsthand. "Now who can explain this to him (Kamal Na ...Read More >
New Delhi: The crucial two-phased West Bengal Assembly elections will be held on April 23 and 29, and the results will be out on May 4. The battlefield is ready and political heat is building up. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will cross swords and fight a pitched battle on most of the seats. Several constituencies are emerging as key battlegrounds that could sway the balance of power in favour of either party. The first phase of the elections will cov ...Read More >
Omar Abdullah took to X saying that the family should be heard. "I believe the claim of the family should not be dismissed out of hand. At the very least this encounter needs a transparent and time bound probe with the facts made public. Any attempt to obfuscate or delay the announcement of a probe will only damage credibility & that is not in anyone's interest," Omar said. Army on Wednesday said that a joint search operation was launched by security forces in Arahama area of Ganderbal in which ...Read More >
Chhindwara, Apr 2 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Thursday said there is no shortage of gas in the country but the government's arrangements on the issue are lacking amid the West Asia crisis. The BJP immediately used Nath's "no shortage of gas" statement to train its guns on the Congress, accusing the opposition party of misleading the public and instilling fear to gain political mileage. While the Congress has been highlighting long queues at fuel pumps and LPG cylinder distributi ...Read More >
Srinagar, Apr 2 (PTI) National Conference leader and Lok Sabha member Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Thursday demanded a time-bound probe into the allegations of a fake encounter in Ganderbal in which a man was gunned down. The Army on Wednesday said a local terrorist was killed in an overnight encounter in Arahama in the Valley's Ganderbal district. He said the allegations levelled by the family were "gravely serious" and the police's silence is "unacceptable". "We demand a time-bound and indepe ...Read More >
Srinagar, Apr 2 (PTI) National Conference leader and Lok Sabha member Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Thursday demanded a time-bound probe into the allegations of a fake encounter in Ganderbal in which a man was gunned down. The Army on Wednesday said a local terrorist was killed in an overnight encounter in Arahama in the Valley's Ganderbal district. "The family of Rashid Ahmad Mughal, killed in the Ganderbal encounter, says he was an innocent civilian with zero links to militancy. His own clothes ...Read More >
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday exchanged several barbs amid the high-stake contest in Assam where the assembly elections are scheduled on April 9. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, who was in Assam for a campaign rally, accused the Himanta Biswa Sarma government of being corrupt and alleged a "mafia rule" in the state. The Congress leader, an MP from Wayanad, also raised Zubeen Garg's death and said seeking justice for a respected figure is a political duty rathe ...Read More >
MANAMADURAI: DMK leader Kanimozhi on Thursday took a swipe at the AIADMK over its alliance with the BJP, saying its leader Edappadi K Palaniswami would face the same fate as JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, and wanted the party "at least" in the opposition. The Lok Sabha MP, addressing a public meeting here for the April 23 polls, claimed it was not a mere Assembly election but a battle between "Keeladi and Nagpur, the headquarters of RSS." She was referring to the Keeladi archaeological excavations ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The upcoming Puducherry assembly elections will see several candidates with strong political family backgrounds contesting across various constituencies. A total of 291 candidates are in the fray for the April 9 elections. Polling is held to elect 30 members of the 33-seat Puducherry legislative assembly, while the remaining three members are nominated by the central government. A Johnkumar: BJP leader A Johnkumar, a minister in the outgoing N Rangasamy-led government and the sitting ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram (Keralam) [India], April 2 (ANI): Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said the people of Keralam embody the "true spirit of India," praising the state's traditions of free expression, education, equality, and compassion. During a public rally in Chirayinkeezhu, Congress MP said, "This is a land of revolutionary thinkers like Narayan Guruji. He was one of the great inspirations of Mahatma Gandhi ji and in many ways, you still live those traditions today. The traditio ...Read More >
Manamadurai (Tamil Nadu), Apr 2 (PTI) DMK leader Kanimozhi on Thursday took a swipe at the AIADMK over its alliance with the BJP, saying its leader Edappadi K Palaniswami would face the same fate as JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, and wanted the party "at least" in the opposition. The Lok Sabha MP, addressing a public meeting here for the April 23 polls, claimed it was not a mere Assembly election but a battle between "Keeladi and Nagpur, the headquarters of RSS." She was referring to the Keeladi arc ...Read More >
Gaurav Gogoi in conversation with NDTV's Bismee Taskin Islam Guwahati: There's a "wave of optimism" building across Assam in favour of change, state unit chief Gaurav Gogoi stressed in an exclusive interview to NDTV, adding that the Congress-led opposition alliance is set for a decisive victory in the April 9 Assembly polls. "There is tremendous hope and optimism among the people of Assam in this opposition-led alliance," Gogoi said, claiming that the mood on the ground reflects a growing des ...Read More >
Kolkata: A cursory glance at the pre-poll status of the Baharampur assembly constituency in the Bangladesh-bordering Murshidabad district of West Bengal could suggest that the segment is bracing for a nail-biting triangular face-off between BJP's incumbent MLA Subrata Maitra, TMC's civic body chief Naru Gopal Mukherjee and former Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. But scratch the surface, and the story of Baharampur's electoral prospect that emerges seemingly revolves around two ...Read More >
KOLKATA: A cursory glance at the pre-poll status of the Baharampur assembly constituency in the Bangladesh-bordering Murshidabad district of West Bengal could suggest that the segment is bracing for a nail-biting triangular face-off between BJP's incumbent MLA Subrata Maitra, TMC's civic body chief Naru Gopal Mukherjee and former Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. But scratch the surface, and the story of Baharampur's electoral prospect that emerges seemingly revolves around two ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) A cursory glance at the pre-poll status of the Baharampur assembly constituency in the Bangladesh-bordering Murshidabad district of West Bengal could suggest that the segment is bracing for a nail-biting triangular face-off between BJP's incumbent MLA Subrata Maitra, TMC's civic body chief Naru Gopal Mukherjee and former Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. But scratch the surface, and the story of Baharampur's electoral prospect that emerges seemingly revolve ...Read More >
"One family is looting everything in Assam. And when they are not looting, mines, lands and every other asset is being handed over to big industrialists," Gandhi claimed. Alleging massive corruption on every front during the BJP-led government in Assam, she raked up several old scams such as Sarada, Smart City and NC Hills. "The BJP said they have given a double-engine government. In reality, it is a double-ghulami (slavery) government. PM Modi is engaged in slavery of the US, and Himanta Bisw ...Read More >
Guwahati: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday slammed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and alleged that "only one family is looting" everything in the resource-rich state, while the people "don't have anything". In back-to-back poll rallies, Vadra alleged that the BJP-led NDA government is functioning by threatening the people, and attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Sarma as "cowards". Addressing an election rally at Nazira in support of the Leader of the Opposi ...Read More >
Guwahati, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday, launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that the ruling dispensation represents a "double slavery" model of governance, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma operating in a hierarchical chain of control. Addressing an election rally in Nazira, Priyanka Gandhi claimed that the Prime Minister functions under the i ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): BJP leader and MP Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday clarified his remarks regarding the Nehru-Gandhi family, saying his comments were misinterpreted and apologising if anyone's sentiments were hurt. The controversy stems from Dubey's remarks on March 27, when he claimed that during the 1962 war with China, Jawaharlal Nehru fought the war with American funds and in collaboration with CIA agents, while Biju Patnaik, then Chief Minister of Odisha, acted as a link betwe ...Read More >
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