Election

New Delhi: The Election Commission has issued a fresh show cause notice to Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for prima facie violating the Model Code of Conduct by allegedly making disparaging remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was given a day to reply to...

Bhopal: Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha claimed Friday the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was set to dismiss Narendra Modi who was then Gujarat Chief Minister after the 2002 post-Godhra riots, but withheld the decision as then Home Minister LK Advani threatened to resign...

Siddharth Nagar/Sant Kabir Nagar (UP): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged on Friday that while farmers were suffering, Rs 5.5 lakh crore loans accrued by big industrialists were waived by the BJP government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s friends had registered profits of Rs 10,000...

New Delhi: Stepping up his counter-offensive, BJP candidate Gautam Gambhir said Friday he will ‘hang himself in public’ if the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) can prove that he has any link to the derogatory pamphlet allegedly circulated against his rival and AAP nominee from East...

Nandigram (West Bengal): Twelve years after the anti-land acquisition movement changed the political landscape of West Bengal when the three-decade-long Left Front rule ended and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) came to power, many locals in the cradle of change, in this village, feel ‘disenchanted and...

Muzaffarpur: The Narendra Modi government has kept inflation firmly in check and this is the first time since 2004 that price rise is not an issue in the general elections, Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh claimed Friday. He added that the...

Allahabad: At a time when the Nehru-Gandhi family is facing constant criticism from the ruling BJP, several Congress leaders here feel that attacking the family members for ‘political gains’ has only ‘revived and reinforced’ their legacy. The twin constituencies of Allahabad and Phulpur in the...

Kolkata: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu held a closed door discussion with his West Bengal counterpart Mamanta Banerjee in the town of Kharagpur in West Bengal on the future plans of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance). The meeting between Banerjee and...

Dabiajagan (Madhya Pradesh): The Congress decided to go alone in Uttar Pradesh in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections keeping its ‘long-term interests’ in mind, stated senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia here Friday.  He exuded confidence that the party will do much better than in 2014 in...

Ghatal (West Bengal): With two days left for this constituency to go to polls, the police has allegedly seized Rs 1.13 lakh cash from the vehicle of BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh late Thursday night, a senior police officer said Friday. The car in which the...