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With the BJP sweeping both the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Odisha, speculation is rife on who the next chief minister will be. Based on the criteria set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier during the poll campaign, the names of some Odia sons are doing the rounds both at the BJP state office […]
Mamata Banerjee, the only woman Chief Minister in India at present, has pushed for 38 per cent women’s representation from her party in the 18th Lok Sabha, the highest by any political outfit in the country. The feisty mass leader from West Bengal, who is one of the few women party supremos in India, has […]
In a major tragedy, nine persons from Bengaluru are feared to have died during the Sahastra Tal trek in Uttarakhand when they were caught in a blizzard while returning to the base camp from the peak on June 3. A collaborative effort involving the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Army, Air Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police […]
Andhra’s Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Bihar’s Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United) have emerged as the kingmakers in the new BJP-led NDA government at the Centre following the saffron party’s failure to reach the majority mark on its own. The two parties are constituents of the NDA 2 alliance. […]
In a major setback to the BJP, its three-term MP Lalu Patel lost to independent candidate Umesh Babubhai Patel by 6,225 votes from the only Lok Sabha seat in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. Umesh polled 42,523 votes while Lalu got only 36,298. Congress’s Ketan Patel, who finished third, got 11,258 votes. An […]
As BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Lallu Singh accepted defeat to Awadesh Prasad of the Samajwadi Party, a visibly distraught BJP counting agent Laxmikant Tiwari had a quite refrain. “We had worked really hard, we fought for this, but Ram Mandir consecration did not convert into votes.” Barely four months after the consecration of the Ram […]
Even as the BJP is yet to come out of the jolt it received in UP, which was largely instrumental in turning the party’s poll fortunes, it became even clearer that power in Delhi hinges largely on how a party performs in the largest state of the country. With 80 seats in a House of […]
Voting in the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections 2024 concluded on Saturday, June 1. The next day, June 2, at least two notable changes occurred across the country. One, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) announced a nationwide toll hike averaging 5%. Two, Amul, a leading milk supplier in India, raised prices on its pouch […]
Third Lok Sabha campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw new themes being deployed, even as much of the hectic campaign style of the BJP under him remained the same throughout the gruelling 40-day-long cycle. The biggest departure from the 2019 Lok Sabha campaign was the use of the Congress’s manifesto as the BJP’s main […]
All major exit polls projected a decisive victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The figures show the BJP-led NDA is poised to form a government with a full majority for the third consecutive time. According to their projections, the BJP itself is expected to better its 2019 tally […]
INDIA bloc parties on Saturday announced that they will participate in the exit poll debates on television after the grouping’s top leaders met and deliberated on the issue at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence. The development came a day after the Congress said it had decided not to participate in any Lok Sabha exit poll […]
In a significant development in the Porsche crash case, the Pune police have arrested the mother of the teen who is accused of running over two people while driving the luxury car. The mother swapped her blood sample with her son’s in order to prove that her son wasn’t drunk when the accident occurred, police […]
A Delhi court on Saturday reserved the order in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea to June 5, the day after the results of the Lok Sabha elections. As his interim bail period ends on Saturday, Kejriwal will return to Tihar jail on Sunday. During the hearing at the Rouse Avenue Court, representatives of […]
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has brought in several reforms in health covers aimed to benefit policyholders. The new norms will require insurers to approve cashless claims within an hour and provide final authorisation for discharge from a hospital within three hours. Insurers will also need to provide a one-month grace […]
In its ongoing attempt to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) or pesky calls/ SMSes, the government has decided to allocate a separate numbering series ‘160’ exclusively for service and transactional voice calls. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has decided to allocate a separate 10-digit number series starting with ‘160’ for messaging by central and state […]
Karnataka’s Hassan MP and fugitive Prajwal Revanna, who is accused in sexual harassment and kidnap cases, is likely to return to Bengaluru on Friday. A flight ticket has been booked from Germany’s Munich to Bengaluru and he is likely to reach Kempegowda International Airport during the early hours of Friday. The suspended MP of the […]
The recent cyclonic storm Remal in the Bay of Bengal led to largescale damage in Northeast of the country. Heavy rain caused by the cyclone triggered landslides in several places in Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, and Nagaland, which resulted in the deaths of at least 35 people. The collapse of a stone quarry in Aizawl, Mizoram, […]
Strong storms in the wake of cyclone Remal battered Mizoram, Assam, and Meghalaya from Monday evening, resulting in at least 33 deaths and many missing people, officials said on Tuesday. The cyclone, which became a deep depression, moved through the North-East, leaving a path of destruction – landslides, collapsed buildings, power and internet disruptions. The […]
The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) found that 46% of online frauds reported from January to April this year — in which the victims cumulatively lost an estimated Rs 1,776 crore — originated in three southeast Asian countries. A large number of Indians are falling prey to financial fraud carried out over the Internet, allegedly […]
A Varanasi-bound IndiGo flight on Tuesday received a bomb threat at the Delhi airport but nothing suspicious was found after a thorough search, officials said. The flight, 6E2211, with 176 passengers onboard, was scheduled to take off from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport around 5 am and was stopped on the runway minutes before departure. […]
