'BJP confident of winning all 4 seats in hill state'

FORMER chief minister of Himachal Pradesh and leader of the Opposition Jai Ram Thakur believes that the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress government in the state will survive only till parliamentary polls.

Govt asks students to stay indoors in Kyrgyz capital

Mob violence erupts after some student groups got into an altercation

Kharge seeks EC action on BJP's bulldozer remarks

CONGRESS president Mallikarjun Kharge and other INDIA bloc leaders on Saturday called upon the Election Commission to take action after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders’ repeated claims that the opposition would “run bulldozer over Ram temple if voted to power.”

'Strong govt' removed Art 370: PM

Says Haryana means himmat’ and hausla’ which helped him in running govt for 10 years

Rewarding merit, inspiring cops

DO not to be a pigeon when they are born to be an eagle,” Raipur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Santosh Singh often repeats to his team.

Deve Gowda: Son made a scapegoat

JDS supremo former PM says he doesn’t have any objection to legal action against Prajwal

Bibhav's arrest can reveal 'dirty pages' of Kejriwal's political history, says BJP

The Delhi BJP on Saturday termed the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s former PA Bibhav Kumar in Swati Maliwal assault case as “crucial”, saying that he can throw light on many dirty pages of AAP convener’s political history. “Now that Kejriwal’s aide Vibhav Kumar has been arrested, the day is not far when many dirty pages of Kejriwal’s politics will become public,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said.

BJP's conspiracy to trap Kejriwal by using Maliwal as pawn, alleges AAP

The AAP on Saturday alleged that BJP is conspiring to trap Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by making DCW chief Swati Maliwal a pawn.

CM dares Centre to send all AAP leaders to jail

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to arrest all top AAP leaders who will be marching en masse to the BJP headquarters on Sunday instead of picking them up one by one.

Would Hajipur shower its blessing on Modi's 'Hanuman'?

FOR Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, merely winning the Hajipur (SC) Lok Sabha seat his legendary father Ram Vilas Paswan held for decades, would be a disgrace. He wants to register victory with an eye-popping margin so as to establish himself as the political heir of the Ram Vilas legacy.

Seamless alliance with AAP, says Cong leader

CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit the campaign trail in the national capital, saying he would press the button for the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal would vote for the Congress in the forthcoming elections. All seven seats of Delhi will go to polls on May 25.

Mocks depletion of the Congress in the capital

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday tore into the Congress-AAP alliance in Delhi, saying the world is watching how one corrupt party is covering for another corrupt party.

WHAT SIRAT DID FOR ACCEPTANCE

IN 2014, the apex court of India declared transgender as the third gender, whose members could self-identify their gender and enjoy fundamental rights.

EC notice to Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his 'improper' remarks on Mamata

The election Commission on Friday issued a show-cause notice to BJP’s candidate from Tamluk constituency abhijit Gangopadhyay for his alleged personal attack on West Bengal Cm and TmC leader mamata Banerjee and asked him to submit his response by 5pm on may 20.

Parveen's Olympic dreams over after ITA ban

PARVEEN Hooda, who had secured a boxing quota in the 57kg category during the Asian Games, has been handed a 22month suspension by the International Testing Agency (ITA) for whereabouts failure, the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) confirmed on Friday.

High-voltage meeting in prospect at Chinnaswamy

AS the Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers arrived at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday evening, they were greeted by typical gloomy weather synonymous with the Garden City. There was not much cloud cover, but at the same time, an eerie stickiness could be felt in the air. Almost as a precursor to what is in store on Saturday when both teams go against each other in an unofficial knockout match.

Recommendations on OTT communication apps soon

THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is in the process of finalising its recommendations on whether overthe-top (OTT) communication apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal need to be regulated.

'India to corner 18% of global GDP’

FM says country is poised to become the world's fastest-growing economy in the years ahead

Israel tells ICJ it's doing all it can to protect civilians

ISRAEL strongly denied charges of genocide on Friday, telling the United Nations’ top court it was doing everything it could to protect the civilian population during its military operation in Gaza.

French police kill man attempting to set fire to synagogue in Rouen

FRENCH police on Friday shot dead an algerian man armed with a knife and an iron bar who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, adding to concerns over anti-Semitic violence in the country.

Uddhav says BJP will surely be out of power on June 4

SHIV Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and aaP leader arvind Kejriwal on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally of the opposition inDia bloc in mumbai which was also addressed by nCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Congress president mallikarjun Kharge.

Learn from Yogi where to run bulldozers: PM to Oppn

CLAIMING that if the opposition alliance, especially, the Congress had the intention to reverse the Supreme Court verdict over Ram temple if they came to power, Prime Minister Modi said that they would get the Ram temple bulldozed. While addressing a poll rally in Zaidpur of Barabanki, on Friday, PM Modi advised the INDIA alliance to learn from CM Yogi Adityanath 'where to run bulldozers.'

Time to redraw logistical map of world: Jaishankar

THE time has come to start reengineering the logistical map of the world, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said while speaking at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry on Friday.

MP cabinet rejig likely in a month, 3 ex-Cong MLAs may find a place

WITH the four-phase Lok Sabha polls over in Madhya Pradesh, there is strong buzz now about a mini expansion of the council of ministers being on the cards in the state.

No seat is family seat, it's all people's: Shah to Priyanka

CONFRONTING the claim of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra that Raebareli Union Home Minister Amit Shah said it was not a seat of any family but that of the people.

From excise 'scam' to Maliwal 'assault', shift in BJP's narrative

BJP leader and Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday flayed AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, saying his silence on the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at his residence is “shameful”.

Turncoat vs BJP councillor, North West Delhi to witness a two-cornered contest

NORTH West Delhi, the reserved constituency of the national capital, is all set to witness a two-cornered fight between BJP and INDIA bloc with the former replacing its sitting MP Hans Raj Hans with councellor Yogendra Chandolia while latter fielding Udit Raj, a former MP and BJP turncoat on Congress ticket.

Issue Red Corner notice on T'gana phone-tapping case accused, CBI urged

THE Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has approached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with a request to issue Red Corner notices against T Prabhakar Rao, former state Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief, and A Shravan Kumar, owner of a private news channel in connection with the phone-tapping case.

Internal rift in Kerala Cong widens

Party’s A’ group approaches high command against Sudhakaran’s autocratic style of functioning’

SC reserves verdict on Kejriwal's plea against ED arrest

The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on an appeal filed by Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest and subsequent remand by the enforcement Directorate (ED) in the excise policy case.