New Delhi: After much uncertainty, the Congress has finally succeeded in putting in shape alliances in some states for the Lok Sabha battle, with a functionary saying it will be the “most alliance friendly” election for the party. After being in power in Karnataka along with the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), the Congress has formed major […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought details from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad following reports of abduction, forced conversion and underage marriages of two Pakistani Hindu girls in Sindh province. “I have asked the Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report,” the Minister tweeted. The two sisters, aged […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought details from the Indian Embassy in Pakistan following reports of two Hindu teenager girls being abducted on the eve of Holi in Sindh province. “I have asked Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report on this. @IndiainPakistan,” Swaraj tweeted tagging the media report. […]
New Delhi: Haryanvi artist and popular stage performer Sapna Choudhary joined the Congress on Saturday. Choudhary, who wants to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Mathura against Hema Malini of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), met Congress General Secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia before joining the party. Mathura has a dominant Jat presence and Choudhary hails from the […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Uma Bharti, who has decided not to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, was on Saturday appointed the BJP’s national Vice President. “Uma Bharti ji had expressed her wish to not contest election and to work for the organization. BJP President has appointed her as the national Vice President of the […]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday came out with its fifth list of 48 candidates, denying tickets to party veterans Shanta Kumar and Kariya Munda while shifting Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to Morena from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh. Besides Kumar and Munda, the party has also denied tickets to six […]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday came out with its fifth list of 48 candidates, spanning the six states of Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. The list features three Union Ministers – Narendra Singh Tomar, Jayant Sinha and Shripad Yesso Naik and former minister Faggan Singh Kulaste. Tomar […]
New delhi: The government has appointed Eastern Naval Command head Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, a helicopter pilot, as the next Navy Chief replacing Sunil Lanba who retires on May 31. Flag Officer Commanding-in-chief Eastern Naval Command Karambir Singh supercedes vice admiral Bimal Verma who heads the Andaman and Nicobar command. Verma would have become the […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the farmers, soldiers, Dalits and minorities were dying while small businesses have been ruined under the watch of the “Chowkidar”. Addressing the media, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said that as many as 6,351 farmers committed suicide in 2016 while protests by […]
New Delhi: Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) on Saturday welcomed Union government’s “positive and pathbreaking” decision to ban separatist organization Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and holding its founder, Yasin Malik, responsible for the “genocide” of Kashmiri Pandits. The GKPD, a joint initiative of Kashmiri Pandit organizations in India and abroad, has been persistently demanding […]
