Politics

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI:  Eight years after the then wrestler-turned-druglord Jagdish Bhola, who was arrested in a Rs 6500-crore synthetic drug scam, had accused Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law Bikram Majithia of him as a kingpin leading to the summons served by ED on him, Punjab Police has booked the key Akali Dal man on […]

CHANDIGARH: In a major development on Monday, a senior Congress leader and minister for Technical Education Rana Gurjeet Singh lashed out at Punjab Congress committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu for trying to create divisions within the party and questioning the loyalty of the true and traditional Congressmen. Rana took a dig at Sidhu’s flip-flops in […]

AMETHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his home turf of Amethi which he lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and said that every lane of the city is still the same but there is anger against the government. Rahul Gandhi arrived in Amethi […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with Bhutan’s highest civilian honour, The Order of the Druk Gyalpo, on Friday. This is the 10th international award given by various governments to PM Modi. Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lotay Tshering congratulated PM Modi and tweeted: “Overjoyed to hear his Majesty pronounce Your Excellency Modiji’s name […]

LUCKNOW: Desperate to wrest power from the BJP in 2022 elections after a poor outing in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday held a meeting with his uncle, the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) chief Shivpal Singh Yadav, to announce the SP – PSP alliance for the upcoming UP elections. […]

JAUNPUR: It’s colour politics of a difference sort. A day after BJP took a swipe at Samajwadi Party (SP) members calling them “Lal topi waale”, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav retaliated by saying “ BJP does not understand the meaning of red colour. Red is the colour of emotion and feelings”. Yadav is on two-day visit […]

CHANDIGARH: Soon after former chief minister of Punjab Capt Amarinder Singh inaugurated his new political party office on Tuesday, he met Punjab BJP election in-charge Gajendra Shekhawat at his farm house in Mohali. The closed door meeting continued for more than half an hour. According to the sources, Capt Amarinder and Shekhawat talked about sharing […]

MEERUT: The Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal put out a joint front at their first ever rally together here in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. The RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Tuesday targeted the BJP government at centre and state and said that since the present “double engine” government had failed the people of Uttar Pradesh, […]

GORAKHPUR:  In yet another move to rev-up its election campaign for 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath will be seen together in Gorakhpur on Tuesday to unveil a urea production unit in Gorakhpur 31 years after it was shut. PM is also expected to open the functional complex […]

LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Samajwadi Party (SP) are moving closer to what appears to be a pre-poll alliance between the two political parties ahead of 2022 Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly elections. RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Monday said that his party will share the stage with the SP in a mega rally […]