Politics

NEW DELHI: Even as polling for the Presidential election is underway, several Congress MLAs on Monday voted for NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu. Congress MLAs in Odisha, Jharkhand and several other states voted for Murmu, instead of opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. Odisha Congress MLA Mohammad Moquim also voted for Murmu. He later said, “I am a […]

NEW DELHI: As voting took place today for India’s new President, opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday dubbed the polling as “very important” and urged political parties to vote in his favour to save democracy and the Constitution. Speaking to the media, Sinha said, “This election is very important and will set the path […]

  NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday cast their votes as members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha queued up at the Parliament House here to elect the next President of India. BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has fielded former Jharkhand Governor Draupadi Murmu against joint Opposition […]

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 […]

KOLKATA: The limelight-hogging All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Mahua Moitra has once again found herself in the spotlight. An Assam outfit has filed a complaint against the firebrand leader for her recent tweet suggesting that the phrase “sexual harassment” be replaced by “Mr Gogoi”. The tweet created a huge uproar in Assam as the […]