Court approval still awaited, police During a special session for the hearing of an urgent car petition promoted by the BJP on Saturday, the party’s secretary general of state, K Nagarajan, told the Madras High Court that only 30 people in 15 cars will participate in the yatra and that …
Read More »Demonetization cleaned up the economy and dealt a blow to black money: BJP
The demonetization was an “attack” on corruption and black money that were rampant during the “lost decade” of the congressional-led UPA government, the BJP said on Sunday while attacking the opposition party for criticizing the move. On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to ban all …
Read More »Sasikanth Senthil, former IAS officer, who resigned in 2019, to join Congress in TN
“The time has come to unite everyone and push for a political solution,” Sasikanth told TNM. Former IAS officer S Sasikanth Senthil, who resigned from the civil service in 2019 in protest of government policies, has now confirmed that he will launch into politics and join the Tamil Nadu Congress. …
Read More »With a very narrow margin, exit polls predict Grand Alliance victory, Tejashwi is likely CM
As several exit polls on Saturday predicted a clear victory for the opposition Grand Alliance or Mahagathbandhan, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar reacted skeptically. NDA stated that these polls have often failed to account for large numbers of “silent voters.” The leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal …
Read More »Gupkar Alliance to jointly fight against the election of the development council in J&K | India News
SRINAGAR: The recently formed Peoples’ Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgamation of seven regional parties, including CPM and CPI, on Saturday decided unanimously to contest the District Development Council (DDC) polls jointly in Jammu and Kashmir. The polls will be held from November 28. The Jammu and Kashmir …
Read More »Shiv Sena invokes Trump to mock BJP for Arnab Goswami’s arrest
BJP had alleged that the arrest of Mr. Goswami by the Raigad police in the 2018 case was politically motivated. After criticizing the BJP, the ruler Shiv Sena on Saturday compared the uproar over the arrest of television journalist Arnab Goswami to Donald Trump’s reaction to the outcome of the …
Read More »Bihar Assembly Elections | Exit Polls Project RJD Led Mahagathbandhan Advantage Over NDA
Most exit polls also predicted that RJD would emerge again as the largest party in the 243-member Assembly along with a clear drop in the JD (U) seat count of Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar. Several exit polls on November 7 gave the RJD-led Opposition alliance in Bihar an advantage …
Read More »Voting begins at 78 assembly seats as locals queue for final phase of polls amid Covid-19 precautions
Approximately 2.34 million voters, spread across 78 segments of the 243-member Assembly assembly, will decide the fate of 1,204 candidates, including the president and 12 members of the state cabinet. As in the previous two phases, Chirag Paswan’s LJP is also in the fray in several seats this time, threatening …
Read More »NDA, Grand Alliance confident to win as smaller factions see raids
When the campaign for the third and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections ended on Thursday, both the main camps, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Grand Alliance of the Opposition (GA), exuded confidence about their prospects even when the smaller parties and formations realized that they were …
Read More »If J&K had to go with Pak, it would have done it in 1947: Farooq Abdullah – cities
Addressing his party workers in Jammu for the first time in more than a year, the president of the National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, said on Friday that if Jammu and Kashmir had to go with Pakistan, it would have happened in 1947 and no one could have stopped him. His …
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