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, […]
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), March 17 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lose “by a big margin” in the Lok Sabha polls here, AAP leader and candidate Kumar Vishwas says. The Arvind Kejriwal associate also said in an interview that the biggest losers of the election in Uttar Pradesh will be, besides the Congress, the Bahujan […]
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The BJP Monday dismissed AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as no threat to its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi but the Aam Aadmi Party said it was ready for a showdown in Varanasi. “We don’t take Kejriwal seriously. There is a Modi wave in the entire country,” Bharatiya Janata Party’s media convenor […]
Patna, March 17 (IANS) Millions in Bihar celebrated Holi Monday with traditional fervour. But Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not one of them, and it was a low key Holi for RJD leader Lalu Prasad. Nitish Kumar did not mark Holi to express grief over the death of 23 children who died after consuming mid-day meal […]
Bangalore, March 16 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal Sunday cautioned voters of Karnataka against electing former BJP ministers B.S. Yeddyurappa and B. Sriramulu in the Lok Sabha elections. “If you elect Yeddyurappa and Sriramulu in this election, and if (Narendra) Modi becomes prime minister, he will make them telecom and mining ministers in […]
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday wished the nation on the eve of Holi, saying it symbolises India’s “spirit of unity”. In a message to the nation, the prime minister said the festival heralding the onset of spring celebrates “the different hues of the country’s cultural mosaic and is an occasion to […]
Kallakurichi (Tamil Nadu), March 16 (IANS) Coming down heavily on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre, AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Sunday said the nation has not seen such a worst government. Addressing an election rally in Kallakurichi, about 250 km from the state capital Chennai, Jayalalithaa […]