Nagpur, March 18 (IANS) As BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi prepares to launch his Maharashtra campaign from Wardha Thursday, farmers plan to submit a list of demands, including “guaranteed representation” for them in parliament and all state legislatures, an activist said here Tuesday. “Vidarbha and rest of Maharashtra have been ravaged by heavy unseasonal rains […]
Ghaziabad, March 18 (IANS) AAP candidate Shazia Ilmi says her party will do everything it can to end the “step-motherly” treatment of Ghaziabad, a sprawling Uttar Pradesh district bordering Delhi. “Development (of Ghaziabad) will be our only election plank,” Ilmi told IANS soon after the Aam Aadmi Party declared the former journalist as its candidate in […]
Panaji, March 18 (IANS) A social wing of the influential church in Goa Tuesday lashed out at BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for promoting personality oriented politics. While challenging his “good governance” claim, the Council of Social Justice and Peace (CSJP) also hinted that communal and corporate forces had “infiltrated” India’s secular fabric. In a […]
Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) Former Andhra minister Konda Surekha and her husband Konda Murali Tuesday joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). Surekha and Murali, a former legislator, had quit the YSR Congress party last year after it opposed formation of separate Telangana state and rejoined the Congress party, which they had left in 2009. However, as […]
Amritsar, March 18 (IANS) BJP leader Arun Jaitley’s arrival here Tuesday started literally with a ‘bang’ when gas-filled balloons put up for his welcome caught fire from exploding firecrackers. Jaitley and other party leaders suffered minor burn injuries as the balloons went off at the Novelty Chowk when his procession reached there. Jaitley, the Bharatiya Janata […]
Bhubaneswar, March 18 (IANS) A strong anti-incumbency mood prevails across Odisha against the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former union minister Jual Oram said. “People are frustrated for many reasons…They are upset with the deteriorating law and order, increasing atrocities against women, chit fund […]
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress Tuesday released its fourth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, including the son of late Indian president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, and said it will play a decisive role in government formation post-elections. The candidates have been announced for seven seats in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha. […]
Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) Popular Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, who floated a political party last week, is likely to have an electoral alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the forthcoming elections. Pawan, who launched Jana Sena with the slogan of ‘Congress hatao, desh bachao’ (remove Congress, save the country) will meet senior BJP leaders in […]
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Delhiites woke up to a rainy Tuesday morning and the Met Office forecast brief spells of rain in the forenoon. “The sky will remain partly cloudy. Rain or thundershower could occur in some areas till noon,” said an India Meteorological Department official. The day’s minimum temperature settled at 19.6 degrees Celsius, […]
Hyderabad, March 17 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s intervention saved the party from a setback in Telangana as two legislators dropped their plans to cross over to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The legislators said that after receiving a phone call from Gandhi, they decided not to leave the party. One of them, Nandishwar Goud, […]