Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Navjot Singh Sidhu did not address Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s rally at Rajomajra in Dhuri Assembly segment on Friday. Sidhu, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, and Congress veteran Sunil Jakhar were among those leaders who accompanied Gandhi to the rally in support of Congress candidate Dalvir Singh Goldy. Sidhu refused to […]
Social activist Anna Hazare, who announced last week he will sit on an indefinite hunger strike from February 14 against the Maharashtra government’s policy to allow sale of wine at walk-in stores and supermarkets, declared on Sunday he has ‘suspended’ the strike as the state government has assured him it will consider citizens’ views before […]
Day before Uttarakhand goes to polls, senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said nobody in the party had any objections to his name as the chief ministerial candidate, news agency ANI reported. On the issue of him not being announced as the Chief Ministerial candidate unlike Punjab, Rawat said the move was strategic. “I do politics of […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today claimed that Punjab Chief Minister Channi is losing from both seats he is contesting and this has been confirmed through another of their telepolls, which was repeated thrice.Campaigning in Punjab’s Amritsar, Mr Kejriwal said, “Channi Saheb is fighting from Chamkaur Sahib and from Bhadaur. We have conducted a survey […]
Targeting Charanjit Singh Channi ahead of next week’s single-phase assembly elections in Punjab, Union home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Sunday sought to know if the chief minister, who failed to provide a secure route to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would be able to keep the state safe. “Channi sahib […]
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday declared that a girl wearing hijab will become the prime minister of India.The Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad tweeted a 43-second video wherein he is heard saying that girls wearing hijab will achieve greater heights. “The women wearing hijab will become doctor, collector, magistrates, businesswomen and so […]
The Udupi district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC in areas around all high schools in the district from Monday till February 19. The move comes as part of a precautionary measure as the schools are reopening on Monday after the holiday declared by the state government in view of the […]
The central government on Sunday announced the approval of the continuation of the umbrella scheme for modernization and improvement of police forces in states and Union territories. The ministry of home affairs said in a statement that the umbrella scheme of Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) has been approved for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26. […]
Rescuers retrieved the body of a second woman from under the debris of a partially collapsed 18-floor apartment block late on Saturday night, more than 60 hours after the incident. The body of Sunita Shrivastava, which was spotted under the debris on Friday, was pulled out at 11:30 pm by the rescue team, a senior […]