Author: Rajgopal

NEW DELHI: In a bizarre statement, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that cloudbursts in India are being engineered by foreign powers to destabilise the country. “There is a new phenomenon called cloudburst. This is what happened in the Godavari region which caused the flood. There are reports that these cloudbursts are a conspiracy […]

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: The Opposition parties are scheduled to meet at the Delhi residence of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday evening. The agenda for the meeting is to pick up a name for the vice-presidential poll. Sources told The New Indian that the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which was at the […]

  NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as its Vice-Presidential candidate after a meeting of its Parliamentary Board on Saturday evening. “The decision was reached upon after discussing multiple names,” said BJP president JP Nadda. Governor Dhankhar, who is in Delhi, had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi before […]

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Board, the party’s highest decision-making body, will meet on Saturday evening in Delhi to decide the candidate for the vice-presidential election. The last day to file nomination for the vice-presidential poll is July 19. The meeting will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit […]