Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesman Rakesh Tikait has said the BJP worked only to garner the maximum votes and has been successful in doing that. “We held farmer agitation successfully for 13 months. We are ‘andolankari’ and BJP is ‘votekaari’. This time, all political parties took farmers seriously and included their welfare in their manifestos. […]
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grand-daughter was seen welcoming Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow in a video tweeted by news agency ANI. Aparna Yadav, Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh’s younger daughter-in-law, quit the party and joined the BJP on January 19 – a month before the UP Assembly election.Aparna Yadav and her daughter reached […]
Punjab chief minister-elect Bhagwant Mann said on Friday he will announce the date of his swearing-in by evening, as he left for Delhi to meet Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal after the party emerged victorious in the Punjab assembly elections, the polling for which took place on February 20, followed by Thursday’s […]
India logged 4,194 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of Covid cases to 4,29,84,261, while the active cases dipped to 42,219, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,15,714 with 255 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.The active cases comprise 0.1 per cent […]
Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires here and conveyed its strong protest over the alleged unprovoked violation of its airspace by an Indian-origin “super-sonic flying object” and sought a thorough and transparent investigation of the incident. The Indian diplomat was on Thursday night told about an Indian-origin “super-sonic flying object” entering into Pakistan from ‘Suratgarh’ […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here on Friday, a day after the BJP stormed back to power in Uttar Pradesh, and also retained Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. Riding in an open jeep decorated with floral garlands, Modi waved to the hundreds of supporters and admirers who gathered by the roadside as his roadshow […]
In a joint operation carried out by the sleuths belonging to 2nd Battalion of Border Security Force and Special Task Force, a huge cache of firearms have been recovered in Ferozepur sector. Among the recovered weapons are five AK-47 rifles along with 10 magazines, three US-made Colt rifles along with six magazines and five China-made […]
Akhilesh Yadav on Friday morning tweeted that his party has “shown that the BJP’s seats” can be reduced in the state assembly, a day after the Samajwadi Party failed to stop its rival from returning to power in Uttar Pradesh. “We have shown that the BJP’s seats can be reduced. The fall for the BJP […]
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed to have received the support of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and three Independents and will stake claim to form the government after approval from the party’s parliamentary board, Devendra Fadnavis said on Thursday after the party won 20 out of the 40 assembly seats in the […]
