Bengali actor Dev apologises for ‘rape’ comments
Kolkata : Facing widespread condemnation for likening Lok Sabha poll frenzy surrounding him to "being raped", Bengali movie star and Trinamool Congress candidate Dev...
Delhi HC dismisses plea against post-poll alliances
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the constitutional validity of post-poll alliances entered into by political parties.
A division...
Rajasthan’s deputy leader of opposition resigns
By IANS,
Jaipur : With infighting in BJP's Rajasthan unit refusing to die down, deputy leader of opposition Ghanshyam Tiwari resigned Wednesday from the post.
Trinamool hints at BJP pressure in Srinjoy Bose resignation
Kolkata : Pointing fingers at the BJP, the Trinamool Congress Thursday claimed that Srinjoy Bose - who quit from both the Trinamool as also...
Dynastic politics, bickering may derail BJP in Bhagalpur
By Brajendra Nath Singh,
Bhagalpur: It's BJP-versus-BJP in Bhagalpur, and this may once again prove lucky for the Congress.
The mass of leaders and activists of...
Priyanka on a two-day Rae Bareli tour from Monday
Lucknow, March 21 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi will be on a two-day tour of her mother's Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh from Monday, a party official said Saturday.
"Priyankaji is coming here to encourage our party workers ahead of the Lok Sabha polls," Shiv Ganesh, a member of the state assembly, told IANS over the telephone from Rae Bareli.
During her stay in the constituency, Gandhi will address meetings at various places and interact with grassroots-level workers, Ganesh said.
A year of success, consolidation for BJP
By Prashant Sood & Brajendra Nath Singh
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) consolidated its position as the premier national party of...
“Investigation itself is a conspiracy,” say concerned citizen group on Delhi violence probe
TCN News
New Delhi: Over 1000 professionals including journalists, academics, filmmakers, political leaders, rights activists and various others have issued an urgent statement questioning the...
SS, MNS activists clash outside election office
Mumbai: Shiv Sena and MNS activists, who are bitter political rivals, Thursday clashed outside the election office in the Mumbai collectorate.
Several thousands supporters of...
West Bengal to get 250 companies of central forces for polls
By IANS,
Kolkata : West Bengal will get 250 companies of central paramilitary forces for its three-phased Lok Sabha polls starting April 30, a police official said here Saturday.
Fourteen of the state's 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, including sensitive Northern West Bengal and three Maoist-affected districts of Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore, go to the polls in the first of the three phases.
Seventeen constituencies will vote May 7 and the remaining 11 constituencies on May 13.
A Priyanka Gandhi calendar that is available online
By IANS,
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) It is a New Year calendar on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - capturing her in various moods and colourful saris as she connects with voters in Uttar Pradesh. But the ruling Congress party refuses to say whether it is an indication that the important Gandhi family member will be finally joining politics.
The calender has also been posted on a website, pressbrief.in, that is a depository of information on the Gandhi family.
Three held for trafficking girls in Delhi
New Delhi : Three people have been arrested for their alleged role in human trafficking, Delhi Police said on Tuesday. Two girls, including a...
I am not on ventilator: Bal Thackeray
By IANS,
Mumbai : Stating that he had not "completely collapsed", ailing Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Monday admitted his health was "not that good" but denied that he was on a ventilator.
Congress candidate in Madhya Pradesh arrested
By IANS,
Bhopal : A Congress candidate in Madhya Pradesh was arrested Monday for organising an election meeting at a government building allegedly without seeking permission from the authorities in violation of the model code of conduct.
Former minister Bala Bachchan, who is contesting from the Khargone parliamentary constituency, was arrested in Khandwa district, divisional police officer Rajiv Kumar Mishra said.
"Bachchan has been booked for addressing a poll meeting at an anganwadi (child care) centre April 1 night without the prior permission of the administration.
Heavy security for key Jharkhand assembly by-election
By IANS,
Ranchi : Heavy security arrangements are in place for the by-election to the Tamar assembly seat, scheduled Monday, from where Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren is seeking entry to the state legislature.
"To ensure a violence-free and fair election, 70 companies of security personnel have been deployed in the constituency. Out of these, 28 companies are of paramilitary forces," a police official told IANS.
Why Azan Once Resonates at Varanasi’s Red Church During Ramadan
Aradhna Pandey, TwoCircles.net
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): The Bishop House in Varanasi, also known as the Red Church, is more than just a building of bricks...
Chouhan’s seven resolutions for developing Madhya Pradesh
By IANS,
Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who steered the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a win in the recent assembly polls, has outlined "seven resolutions" to develop and turn it into a "golden state", officials said here.
Chouhan's focus would be on seven key areas - infrastructure development, making agriculture a more lucrative profession, enhancing industrial investment, empowerment of women, expansion of education and health facilities, a firm law and order situation and good governance for the common man.
Modi hasn’t shown signs of dictatorship: Journalist Coomi Kapoor
By Preetha Nair
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn't shown any signs of dictatorship nor is there any chance of an emergency being...
Haryana gets third minister in Modi government
Chandigarh : With the induction of Birender Singh as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government Sunday, Haryana now has three ministers...
Tharoor meets PM again
By IANS,
New Delhi: Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday night, the second meeting between them in the day.
Tharoor drove to the prime minister's 7, Race Course residence in his private vehicle soon after after Manmohan Singh held a meeting of the Congress core committee including Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The meeting was held to decide the minister's future in the government in the wake of controversy over an ugly IPL franchise row in which his friend Sunanda Pushkar was given a sweat equity worth Rs.70 crore.
Delhi Metro to begin 4 a.m. on election day
New Delhi : Delhi Metro will start services at 4 a.m. on Lok Sabha election day in the city Thursday, an official said.
"Metro train...
Farmers’ suicides a national agony, says Modi
Wardha (Maharashtra) : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday interacted via video conferencing with around 1,500 farmers from across the country, and said...
Lalit Modi row: Rajasthan CM clarifies her position to BJP chief
New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday clarified her position to BJP president Amit Shah over allegations that she testified in favour...
Cabinet to meet at PM’s house
By IANS,
New Delhi : The morning after taking oath for his second consecutive term, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called a meeting of the new cabinet at his residence here.
"The meeting is basically to decide the dates for parliament sessions and when to present the budget," said an official at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
The cabinet meeting is scheduled to be held around noon.
Where is PM, BJP asks in Lok Sabha
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his "persistent absence" from the Lok Sabha when crucial issues were being discussed.
I understand government-investors coordination: Modi
Tokyo : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday attracted Japanese investors to India, stating he knew the coordination that is needed between investors and government...
स्याही लगी ऊंगली दिखाना बन गया है आज ‘स्टेट्स सिंबल’
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net,
पटना: बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव के तीसरे चरण में आज लोकतंत्र के पर्व का उत्साह काफी चरम पर दिखा. पटना के तमाम...
Baalu finds no support from DMK, Karunanidhi family for cabinet berth
By T.G. Biju, IANS,
New Delhi : DMK leader T.R. Baalu served as central minister for nearly a decade in two governments, but he is not likely to find a berth in the new central cabinet as no one in his party or party chief M. Karunanidhi's family is backing him this time.
The DMK did not even mention Baalu's name during discussions on finalising the party's representatives in the central ministry, a senior party leader slated to become minister said here.
"No one in the DMK and Karunanidhi family argued for Baalu," said the leader, who requested anonymity.
RSP out of UPA-Left panel, says Left should ditch government
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) Monday pulled out of the coordination panel with the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and said the Left should prepare to withdraw its vital legislative support to the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Alleging that the Congress-led government had pushed the common people to the "brink of ominous disaster", the RSP said the UPA coalition had proved to be a disaster.
Tripura gives women 50 percent quota in panchayat
By IANS,
Agartala: The Tripura assembly late Tuesday unanimously passed two bills enhancing reservation for women in three-tier panchayats (village councils) and urban local bodies from the existing 33 percent to 50 percent.
Tripura Panchayat and Urban Development Minister Manik Dey last week moved the Tripura Panchayats (fifth amendment) Bill, 2010, and the Tripura Municipal (fourth amendment) Bill, 2010, in the ongoing session of the Tripura assembly.
Hafiz Saeed is real PM of Pakistan: Karachi-born Canadian writer
New Delhi : Hafiz Saeed, Chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, is the "real Prime Minister of Pakistan" and that the creation of...
Home ministry not a new portfolio for Chidambaram
By IANS,
New Delhi : Palaniappan Chidambaram, who was named India's home minister Sunday, has had prior experience with the portfolio when he was minister of state for internal security in Rajiv Gandhi's government between 1986 and 1989.
The 63-year-old lawyer-politician, who has merely shifted to another office down the Byzantine corridors of North Block that houses both the finance and home ministries, was the country's finance minister since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government took power May 22, 2004.
Dhumal in please-all mode in election year
By Vishal Gulati, IANS,
Shimla : Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal is on a spree to please-all ahead of the state assembly polls later this year.
PM’s Assam visit begins Monday amid high hopes
By IANS,
Guwahati : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives in Assam on a two-day visit Monday amid expectations that he will announce a financial package besides making concrete offers to solve the state's burning issues - insurgency and influx of Bangladeshi migrants.
"We are positive and hopeful that the prime minister will address the various problems facing the state," Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Sunday said here.
क्या लालू की रैली पर टिका है ‘विपक्षी एकता’ का दारोमदार?
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, twocircles.net
पटना : लोकतंत्र में भीड़ बहुत कुछ कहती हैं. लेकिन मैं यहां इस बात पर बिल्कुल भी चर्चा नहीं करने...
A woman with a mission: She safeguards maternal health in Himachal villages
By Vishal Gulati
Chamba (Himachal Pradesh) : In spite of advancing years, health worker Kaushalya, whose name roughly translates into "ability to do something well",...
Jammu and Kashmir voters warm up to polls in winter chill
By IANS,
Srinagar/Jammu : Without an elected government for three months and in the global spotlight of trouble for two decades, Jammu and Kashmir Monday made another tryst with political power as elections to the state assembly got under way.
Voters braved the winter chill and a boycott call from separatists to exercise their franchise.
It was a vote for change, they said.
Constable loses job in BJP-Congress poster war
By IANS
Bhopal : A poster war between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh has cost a police constable dearly. He was suspended after "objectionable posters" came up on the walls of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh's bungalow here.
Posters carrying the photograph of Masood Azhar, founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist outfit, were found pasted outside the bungalow here Saturday. Chouhan used to live there before shifting to the chief minister's house.
Political slugfest as Saharanpur seeks peace
By Mohit Dubey,
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh's dominant political players are locked in a war of words over the communal violence in Saharanpur that has...
BJP may not get majority in Maharashtra, Haryana: survey
New Delhi : The BJP is predicted to emerge the single largest party in Maharashtra and Haryana but may fall short of majority in...
JD-S moves court against land deals probe panel
By IANS,
Bangalore: The Janata Dal-Secular has moved the high court for axing the one-man panel set up by Karnataka's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to probe land scams.
Modi wishes Sonia Gandhi on 68th birthday
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday wished Congress president Sonia Gandhi on her 68th birthday.
"Best wishes to Congress President Sonia Gandhi on...
Speaker holds all-party meet
By IANS,
New Delhi : In a bid to ensure a smooth budget session beginning Thursday, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Wednesday met leaders of political parties.
Lok Sabha passes bill to amend CBI chief’s selection process
New Delhi : The Lok Sabha Wednesday passed a bill to amend the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act to include leader of the single...
Jailed MP’s ‘Pappu da Dhaba’ opens in Tihar Jail
By Sahil Makkar, IANS
New Delhi : Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Pappu Yadav is set to tickle the taste buds of fellow inmates at Tihar Jail. He has won a canteen contract in the jail - but in the name of another prisoner whom he put up as a front.
"An inmate backed by Pappu Yadav was awarded the canteen contract of Jail No. 3 where the two are lodged. Yadav put up the highest bid in the auction - he won the deal to run the canteen for Rs.60,000 a month," a senior jail official told IANS on condition of anonymity.
No home postings for Madhya Pradesh officers ahead of polls
By IANS,
Bhopal : The Madhya Pradesh government Saturday issued instructions that no officer connected with the forthcoming general elections would be allowed to continue in his home district, following directives from the Election Commission.
Besides, if an officer who has completed or would be completing three years of tenure on or before May 31, 2009, also would be transferred.
Slow polling underway in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS
Lucknow : Notwithstanding the relative cool of the morning, polling was slow in the first few hours Thursday in the sixth and penultimate round of Uttar Pradesh's staggered elections.
The turnout in the first two hours -- since 7 a.m. -- was only about 6 percent in the 52 constituencies spread across the nine districts of Varanasi, Allahabad, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Sant Ravidas Nagar, Mirzapur, Chandauli, Sonbhadra and Kaushambhi.
Officials were optimistic that the voter turnout would improve as the day progressed.
CPI-M has unleashed ‘state terror’ in Bengal: Mamata
By IANS
Singur (West Bengal) : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday said the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya government in West Bengal has unleashed "state terror" to suppress people's resistance against forcible land acquisition for industry.
Kozhikode airport re-opens after shootout
Kozhikode (Kerala): Operations resumed at the international airport here on Thursday after it was closed down on Wednesday when a CISF personnel was shot...
PM open to tie-up with Left but n-deal is still hurdle
By IANS,
New Delhi : Leaving the door to a rapprochement wide open, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday that an alliance with the Left after the elections was possible. The Left parties responded saying they were ready but only if the India-US nuclear deal was withdrawn.
"An alliance with Left parties is possible only after the elections," Manmohan Singh said at an interaction with members of the Editors' Guild. "Circumstances will decide if we go with the Left."
List of new ministers, changes in portfolios
By IANS,
New Delhi : List of portfolios of new minister and changes in portfolios of existing ministers
New cabinet ministers:
* K. Rahman Khan - minority affairs
Political advertisement ban: Delhi HC reserves order
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Friday reserved its order on a plea seeking to set aside guidelines banning "political advertisements" on public...
Police in Madhya Pradesh need drastic reform
By Navaz Kotwal and Maja Daruwala, IANS,
Elections in Madhya Pradesh are just around the corner. Manifestos are being readied. Promises are being made. People will vote. But there is little belief that whoever wins will drastically improve things.
But they can - if basic issues of governance are honestly dealt with.
Most important amongst these is improving the police and assuring everyone - high and low, rich and poor, man and woman - of safety and security. Today, the people of Madhya Pradesh can't say they have it.
वीडियो रिपोर्ट : एक पत्रकार की ‘कैफे कारवां’ शुरू करने की प्रेरक कहानी
सिमरा अंसारी।Twocircles.net
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जामिया नगर को जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के बाद यहाँ के रेस्तरां और बाज़ारों के लिए जाना जाता है। देखा जाए तो घर से...
SC moved to know income, expenditures of political parties
New Delhi : The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Congress, the BJP, the CPI-M, the...
Deeply shocked to learn of Munde’s death: Mamata
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed deep shock over the death of Gopinath Munde, the rural development minister, who was killed...
Yashica Dutt’s book ‘Coming Out as Dalit’ to be released in 2017
By TCN News,
A book written by Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, who concealed her identity of being a dalit for a...
Shahabuddin throws a two-hour tantrum at station
By IANS
New Delhi : Jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Mohammed Shahabuddin threw a two-hour tantrum at the railway station when he arrived from Bihar Friday and insisted on going to a hotel to "freshen up" before going to parliament to vote for the vice president.
Shahabuddin stuck to his guns for two hours and was finally allowed to use the restroom at the New Delhi railway station, where he took a shower, shaved and changed clothes before heading to parliament.
Karunakaran to be made governor?
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Veteran Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran is likely to be made governor of a southern state following talks in New Delhi, party sources said Tuesday.
A Congress MP from Kerala told IANS over telephone from the capital that an announcement to this effect is expected in a couple of days.
ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट: नूंह दंगे के आरोपी बनाए गए दिव्यांग और पटरी विक्रेताओं की तबाह...
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Advani promises pragmatic measures to revive agriculture
By IANS,
New Delhi : The relief package for farmers announced by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had not worked, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Tuesday, promising a more "far-reaching" agricultural policy if his party came to power.
"If elected to office, a future BJP-led government will take the most far-reaching policy and pragmatic measures to revive Indian agriculture," Advani told farmers at an interaction held at his residence.
Tripura polls see more women candidates, only six with cases
By Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi, IANS
New Delhi : Tripura, the northeastern state going to polls this month, has set a bench-mark of sorts. Nearly 10 percent of candidates are women - far above the average for other states - and only six contestants have criminal cases pending against them.
These and other interesting facts have come out in a survey conducted by 10 NGOs, including the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Association for Research on People and Nature (ARPAN), that worked under the banner of the Tripura Election Watch (TEC).
Trinamool raises Modi’s visit to temple in Nepal
New Delhi : The Trinamool Congress Tuesday raised the issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering prayers at the Pashupatinath temple in Nepal and...
Mayawati expels 500 BSP workers with criminal past
By IANS,
Lucknow: Cracking the whip on party workers with criminal backgrounds, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday ordered the expulsion of around 500 party activists, sources said.
Significantly, the cleansing operation exempted legislators, MPs or prominent party leaders facing criminal charges, the sources added.
"The majority of those suspended are ordinary-level party workers," a BSO office bearer told IANS, requesting anonymity.
Bihar speaker, ex-IAS officer in JD-U first list
New Delhi/Patna: Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary and former IAS officer K.P. Ramiah figure in the first list of Janata Dal-United candidates for...
Why pretend the spectrum scam has not taken place: Jayalalithaa
By IANS,
Chennai: The scam in allocation of 2G spectrum is 1,000 times bigger than the infamous Bofors gun scandal and how long is everyone going to pretend that it has not taken place, AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa asked here Saturday.
Modi to attend WEF summit in China next week
By IANS
Ahmedabad : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Beijing next Wednesday on a four-day visit to attend the 'summer Davos' summit at Dalian in China organised by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
At the three-day summit beginning Sep 6, Modi will be accompanied by D. Rajagopalan, principal secretary for industries and mines, Gauri Kumar, state industries commissioner, Atanu Chakraborty, secretary for tourism and small scale industries, and K. Kailashnathan, chief minister's principal secretary.
Gujarat challenges SIT power to summon Modi
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Gujarat government Friday contended that neither can the Supreme Court halt trials of various post-Godhra riot cases and nor can the special probe panel appointed by it summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others accused in the murder of ex-Congress MP Ehasan Jafri.
The state government's contentions came in an affidavit filed in the apex court's registry late Friday evening in response to probe report of the Special Investigation Team, headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan.
Telangana JAC to wait for panel’s terms of reference
By IANS,
Hyderabad : Even as the government Wednesday announced a five-member panel headed by retired Supreme Court judge B.N. Srikrishna to deliberate on a mechanism for a separate Telangana state, the All-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the region said it would plan its next move only after the centre announces the terms of reference.
"We will meet once the centre announced terms of reference and other details and then react," JAC convenor M. Kodandaram.
"The terms of reference are more important than the persons included in the committee," Kodandaram said.
Rahul, Akhilesh, Jayant: Young brigade leads dynasty charge in UP
By Prashant Sood, IANS,
Major bureaucratic reshuffle in Rajasthan
By IANS
Jaipur : In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Rajasthan government transferred 45 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) officials.
Of the 19 IAS officials transferred late Monday evening, B L Arya has been made divisional commissioner of Jaipur in place of Madhukar Gupta, who has now been made the managing director of the Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation.
Congress has its nose ahead in coming general election
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,
There is a surface similarity between the last general election and the next one, which is just over two months away. In 2004, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was so sure of its success that it went into a blue funk when it lost. This time, too, the ruling Congress's chances of victory are being widely acknowledged.
Varun Gandhi’s views surprise cousin Rahul
By IANS
Puducherry: Stating that he doesn't "carry hate and anger", Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday that he was "surprised" by his cousin Varun Gandhi's reported inflammatory campaign speeches.
"I am surprised by his views. Life is full of surprises," Rahul Gandhi said at a press conference here.
He said Varun Gandhi's speeches were his "personal views".
Government must pass Gujarat’s anti-terror law: Advani
By IANS,
New Delhi : Condemning the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Saturday demanded that President Pratibha Patil give her assent to Gujarat's long-pending anti-terror law.
“I would demand the president's assent to the state laws of Gujarat and Rajasthan akin to the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) pending with the (central) government. The Gujarat law has been pending for the last four years,” Advani told reporters here.
CPI-s women membership in Tripura at record level
Agartala: Women constitute 26.49 percent of the CPI-M's members in Tripura, much more than the some 10 percent nationally, a party leader said on...
BJP government muzzling voice of poor: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the central government of muzzling the voice of the poor, tribals and the...
BJP ministers to meet party workers every day
New Delhi : In a bid to improve coordination between the party and the government, the BJP Wednesday decided that union ministers would visit...
Persecuted Muslim families get new homes in UP
By Mohd Asim Khan
Kandhla (Uttar Pradesh) : A hundred houses festooned with colourful bulbs lit up at once, shattering the darkness, literal and...
NDA leads in Bihar
Patna : The BJP-led NDA Friday took early lead in 22 of the 40 Bihar seats as officials counted the votes polled in the...
RJD workers protest against own government in Bihar
Patna : Hundreds of RJD workers in Bihar's Siwan district took to the streets on Monday to protest against their own government -- led...
RPI slashes seat demand in Maharashtra polls from 47 to 20
Mumbai : Virtually conceding its shrinking bargaining power, the Republican Party of India-A Tuesday drastically reduced its demand for seats for the ensuing Maharashtra...
BJP protests against Noida toll tax, traffic disrupted
Noida : Around 500 BJP workers on Wednesday protested at the DND flyway (Delhi-Noida-Direct flyway) demanding that the stretch be made toll-free, leading to...
Gujarat Election Trend: 8.50 a.m.
By IANS
Leads
BJP 22
Congress 15
Others 3
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Congress fumes at no mention of Sonia in Telangana text book
Hyderabad : The Congress in Telangana has condemned the non-inclusion in school text books of the role of party president Sonia Gandhi in the...
Jaitley urges industry help in honest decision-making
New Delhi : Errors in decision-making and corruption in decision-making need to be looked at differently, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday in...
Muslim votes will be split among many parties. But why does that come as...
By Rajan Pandey, TwoCircles.net
What is the most clichéd question being asked in the upcoming UP elections? Of course, there are more than a couple...
Rahul to meet youth, women during Tamil Nadu visit
By IANS,
Chennai : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will Wednesday begin a two-day trip to Tamil Nadu to enthuse more youth and women into joining the party.
Mamata meets PM during West Bengal visit
By IANS,
Kolkata : Mamata Banerjee, chief of West Bengal's principal opposition Trinamool Congress, Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Raj Bhawan during his visit here.
"We discussed issues like the (ruling) Communist Party of India-Marxist supported police atrocities on the tribal community at Lalgarh and demanded centre's intervention in these issues," Banerjee told reporters after emerging from the meeting.
A seven-member team headed by Banerjee came to the governor's house at 7.15 pm. The meeting lasted for around half-an-hour.
Patna: Tejashwi Praises Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb at Iftar Event, Stresses Communal Harmony
TCN News
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who also the Leader of the Opposition in Bihar, on March 11 praised India’s...
Bill moved in Lok Sabha to change CBI chief’s selection
New Delhi : A bill to amend the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act was introduced in the Lok Sabha Tuesday to include the leader...
Poll fever keeps ‘spirits’ high in Bangalore pubs
By Maitreyee Boruah, IANS,
Bangalore : Pubs and bars are all packed in the evenings in India's tech capital. But, unlike other times, the buzz is not about office gossip or business deals. It's about political parties, candidates and who will win or lose.
"The conversation here these days is all about elections and elections," IT professional Soumyadeep Chatterjee, 27, told IANS as he waited for his friends at Hard Rock Cafe on Bangalore's upscale St.Marks Road, a favourite pub among well-heeled youth.
S. Bangarappa joins Congress
By IANS,
New Delhi : Former Karnataka chief minister and Samajwadi Party leader S. Bangarappa joined the Congress party Saturday.
This was announced by Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to media persons here.
Bangarappa was the Samajwadi Party's Karnataka unit president.
Modinomics must address the rural economy
By Vatsal Srivastava
For a government that has been voted by a historic majority on the single promise of "ache din" and "vikas", today's agrarian...
बसने से पहले ही उजड़ गएं दलितों, आदिवासियों व अल्पसंख्यकों के ‘टीचर ट्रेनिंग इंस्टीट्यूटस’
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
नई दिल्ली : दलितों, आदिवासियों व अल्पसंख्यकों के रोज़गार का एक और सुनहरा ख़्वाब चूर-चूर होता नज़र आ रहा है. पूर्व...
Fasting Left leaders arrested in Hyderabad
By IANS,
Hyderabad : Police Tuesday night arrested the leaders of Left parties, who were on indefinite hunger strike here to protest the proposed hike in electricity tariff and electricity cuts.
‘JDU-BJP committed to strengthen coalition’
By IANS,
Lucknow: Hours after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar returned the Rs.5 crore provided by Gujarat for flood relief, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain Saturday claimed all was well between his party and the Janata Dal-United.
"If anyone is annoyed, we would make attempts to please him.... But as no one is annoyed, there's just no question of pleasing anyone. Bihar has seen around 20 years of misrule and therefore, we are committed to strengthen the coalition in the interest of the public of the state," Hussain told reporters here.
Rahul to tour Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh from Saturday(Lead, Changing dateline)
By IANS,
New Delhi/Bhopal : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will undertake one more "Discover India" tour as he will spend four days in tribal pockets of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh from Saturday, the party said Wednesday.
Gandhi, who started touring some of the remotest and poorest areas with a trip in Orissa March 7, would reach Dindori Saturday and hold discussions with the Baiga tribals in Chada village. He would also attend a panchayat of tribals in there.
Opposition slams Mamata for shielding Paul
Kolkata : With West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress content with its MP Tapas Paul's apology for his rape remarks, opposition parties Wednesday targeted Chief...
Nepal’s Oli urges India to lift economic blockade
Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli has called on India to lift "unofficial blockade" in Nepal as soon as possible.
In his...
Geeta symbol of India-Pakistan unity: Pranab
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday described Geeta, a young Indian woman who returned home after spending years in Pakistan, as a "symbol...
BJP paying lip service to UP’s law and order problem: Mayawati
Lucknow : Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP of paying only lip service to what she called the poor...
RJD, LJP must apologise to secular forces: Congress
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Congress party Friday asked Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) president Ram Vilas Paswan to apologise to the "secular forces" for breaking a "secular coalition" before the Lok Sabha polls.
"Laluji and Paswanji should apologise to the secular forces for breaking a secular coalition just before the Lok Sabha elections," Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad told reporters.
Polling begins in Puducherry
By IANS,
Puducherry : There was brisk and peaceful polling in Puducherry Wednesday as voters lined up to elect a new 30-member assembly.
Search launched for missing CPI-M leader in Tamil Nadu
By IANS,
Chennai : The Tamil Nadu police as well as Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists are on the look out for senior party leader W.R.Varadarajan, missing since Thursday.
Police have registered a missing person complaint after his wife Saraswathi approached them.
According to the CPI-M, Varadarajan has been missing since last Thursday and police are looking at various angles, including kidnapping.
Varadarajan, a well known trade union leader, was stripped of the party posts recently as a disciplinary action.
Single phase elections on May 5 in Karnataka
By IANS,
New Delhi : Karnataka will go for a single-phase assembly elections on May 5, the Election Commission announced Wednesday.
Madhusudhanachary elected first speaker of Telangana assembly
Hyderabad : TRS legislator Sirikonda Madhusudhanachary was Tuesday elected the first speaker of Telangana state legislative assembly here.
His election was an unanimous affair with...
BJP on top as Maharashtra sees 64 percent turnout
Mumbai: The BJP, which virtually contested against all others in Maharashtra, seemed set to make major gains with exit polls holding it to emerge...
Kerala’s LDF meet turns stormy
By IANS
Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) meeting turned out to be a stormy affair Wednesday as leaders of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) locked horns over the government's anti-encroachment drive in the hill station of Munnar.
देखिए तस्वीरों में पीएम मोदी की औरंगाबाद रैली
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
लोग सुबह से बसों पर सवार होकर औरंगाबाद के बियाडा कैम्पस में जाते दिखें. खास बात यह थी कि...
In first six hours, 26 percent voter turnout in Rajasthan
By IANS,
Jaipur : One man was killed as police opened fire on a mob trying to capture a booth, while stray incidents of stone throwing and booth capturing were reported in Rajasthan, where polling for the state's 25 parliamentary seats was underway Thursday, officials said. The turnout in the first six hours was 26 percent.
"Some incidents of stone pelting and booth capturing have been reported. Around 26 percent of over 36 million voters had cast their votes till 1 p.m.," an Election Commission official told IANS.
Sidhu at the centre of Akali Dal-BJP shadow boxing
By Jaideep Sarin,
Chandigarh : In the last couple of months, the "time-tested" ruling alliance of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party...
Neither split nor quit AAP: Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi : AAP leader Yogendra Yadav on Wednesday said that he would "neither split nor quit" the party.
He refused to comment on Arvind...
Go vote, say campaigns, but are people listening?
By Maitreyee Boruah, IANS,
Bangalore : This election perhaps stands apart for the number of campaigns urging millions of reluctant, often lazy, Indians to walk that extra mile to the polling booth. But many voters say they are not impressed.
"Where are the right leaders to vote for?" retorts Radhika Sharma, a 22-year-old college student in Bangalore. "Most seasoned politicians fail to impress us as they are only good at rhetoric and not interested in public service," she told IANS.
Sonia enquires about water, crops, NREGS in Rae Barel
By Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi, IANS,
Rae Bareli : Congress president Sonia Gandhi, visiting her Lok Sabha constituency here Wednesday, enquired from the locals about the state of water supply, crops and the centrally-sponsored schemes.
“She asked me what problems I was facing, and I told her I had not yet got a job card under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS),” said Vidyadevi, a vegetable vendor. A mother of six children, she was disillusioned after being turned away by the local authorities several times.
BJP to raise CWG delays in parliament
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Commonwealth Games had the government in an embarrassing corner Tuesday with not just the BJP asserting that it would raise project delays in parliament but also its own MP Mani Shankar Aiyar declaring that he would be happy if the "Games are spoilt".
"We will raise the issue of the delays in preparation for the Commonwealth Games in parliament," Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told reporters outside parliament.
M.O.H. Farook takes oath as Jharkhand governor
By IANS,
Ranchi : M.O.H. Farook became the seventh governor of Jharkhand Friday, less than a month after Shibu Soren took over as the state's seventh chief minister.
Farook was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra at the Raj Bhavan here.
He replaces K. Sankaranarayanan, who has been appointed governor of Maharashtra.
FIR lodged against Mayawati in Lucknow
Lucknow : An FIR was lodged against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and three others by the family of former BJP Vice President...