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Huge Jolt To Congress As Miffed Anand Sharma Quits Key Post

In a massive jolt to the Congress ahead of Assembly elections later this year in Himachal Pradesh, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Sunday said he has resigned as chief of the ‘steering committee’ of the party's state unit citing continuing “insults”

16 Hours: CBI’s Search At Sisodia’s Longest In Recent Times

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) search at the premises of Delhi Deputy Chief minister Manish Sisodia is one of the longest searches by the central agency in the last five years. The CBI on Friday carried out searches at 31 locations in Delhi, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Bengaluru on the premises linked […]

AAP-CBI Row: Congress, In U-Turn, Backs Agency Raids

In a stark U-turn to its stance on the misuse of central agencies, the Congress on Friday tacitly backed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s raids at the residence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi’s Deputy Chief minister Manish Sisodia. CBI carried out searches at 21 locations, including the premises of Sisodia and […]

Tytler T-Shirt Row: Former Punjab Minister Dhindsa Slams Congress

Shiromani Akali Dal- Sanyukt (SAD-S) senior leader Parminder Singh Dhindsa has slammed the Congress party for encouraging its workers to enter the holy Harmandar Sahib wearing T-shirts with a photograph of Jagdish Tytler, one of the accused in the 1984 Sikh massacre.

Behind The Scene: How Nitish’s Call To Sonia Set The Ball Rolling

PATNA: It was on Wednesday that Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the eighth time. But sources told The New Indian that the decision to snap ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in one of the most important states in the Hindi heartland started in June this year.   […]

People Are Talking About Jobs Now: Tejashwi 

PATNA: Two days after he took oath as the Deputy chief minister of Bihar for the second time, Tejashwi Yadav on Friday said that the return of Mahagathbandhan has made people talk about employment.  In New Delhi to meet Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader also said that people talking about employment […]

On World Tribal Day, Gehlot Highlights Development Work In Tribal Areas

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various projects worth ₹399 crore at Mangarh and Sangdungri in Banswara on the occasion of World Tribal Day. Gehlot stated on World Tribal Day that the day provides us with an opportunity to consider how to solve tribal difficulties and […]

We Made You What You Are, BJP Tells Nitish Kumar

NEW DELHI: Hitting back at Nitish Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said, “Rather than trying to split the Janata Dal (United) and weaken you, the BJP has made you in politics what you are.” Former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that at every available opportunity, the BJP had helped Kumar in […]

TOP EXCL: Had Said 1.5 Yrs Ago, ‘Khela Hoga’; It Happened Today, Says Tej Pratap

PATNA: “I had said one and a half years ago that khela hoga (the game will happen) and today it became reality,” Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap Yadav told The New Indian hours after Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar resigned and snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking to The New […]

Nitish Walks Out Of NDA, BJP Calls It Betrayal

NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and submitted his resignation to the governor on Tuesday. “I’ve resigned. Everyone in the party wanted to move out of the NDA. “The Governor has accepted the resignation,” Kumar said in Patna. The BJP called this a betrayal of the 2020 […]