NEW DELHI: True to its established practice by now, the BJP surprised many on Saturday evening when it announced that the party’s Parliamentary Board, its highest decision-making body, has zeroed in on West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as its Vice-Presidential candidate. With the selection of a Jat for the post of Vice-President, BJP has sent […]
NEW DELHI: Two days after the arrest of three Popular Front of India (PFI) men, who were allegedly part of a “potential terror module” that sought to target those “who make adverse and objectionable” comments against Islam, the Patna Police on Friday made some more sensational disclosures in the case with the arrest of a […]
NEW DELHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will break ranks with the opposition as they pledged their support to NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu in the Presidential elections. Announcing the decision, JMM president Shibu Soren said, “For the first time since independence there is a chance that a tribal woman has a chance to become the President […]
NEW DELHI: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath’s son Bakul had dashed to Las Vegas on a private chopper in June 2011 with the help of tainted nephew of the top Congress leader for a vacation, the sensational files from the credit card statement found in the probe into Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper […]
NEW DELHI: In a show of togetherness – also a throwback to their earlier camaraderie when they ran a coalition in Maharashtra – newly appointed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday told The New Indian that they are ideologically on the same page, a template that will be used […]
LUCKNOW/DELHI: It has been a roller coaster ride for the Yogi Adityanath-led Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh. Having weathered a strong challenge from former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, Yogi’s government has started to meet the aspirations and expectations of the people who reposed faith in him. While enumerating the achievements […]
NEW DELHI: A day after Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair, who is facing investigation into a 2018 tweet on Lord Hanuman for allegedly fanning sentiments in India, approached the Delhi high court, the Delhi Police have pressed fresh charges of criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence against him. The charges have been pressed under the […]
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Limited, one of India’s top business conglomerates, made its official entry into the food and beverage industry with its Reliance Brands Limited (RBL) announcing a strategic partnership with global fresh food and organic coffee chain, Pret A Manger, to launch and build the brand in India. “With this newly established long-term […]
MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s single-largest party BJP, that had won 106 seats in the 2019 Vidhan Sabha polls, on Thursday pulled off a Houdini act after it handpicked rebel Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde as the next CM of the new combine as they trucked a deal to trump the powerful Thackerays, further stretching their two-and-half-year-old […]
NEW DELHI: Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair was not cooperating in the investigation. He was also not ready to submit the device from which he made the alleged tweet hurting religious sentiments, Delhi police said on Monday. Zubair was arrested by the IFSO Unit of the Special Cell based on the FIR it […]