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LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: BSP supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s mother Ramrati (92) passed away on Saturday after battling prolonged illness. BSP general secretary Satish Mishra told reporters that the Dalit czarina’s mother was undergoing treatment at a Delhi hospital and died following a cardiac arrest. Her mother’s cremation is scheduled to take place in […]

NEW DELHI: A day after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, former Deputy Chief Minister and senior party leader Sachin Pilot also met the party supremo in the national capital. Pilot arrived at the residence of Sonia Gandhi around 12 noon at 10 Janpath. Their meeting lasted for over one […]

CHANDIGARH: In a setback to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) just before Vidhan Sabha elections, the AAP MLA from Bathinda Rural (reserved) Rupinder Kaur Ruby quit the party on Tuesday and joined Congress. 33-year-old first time MLA Ruby tweeted her resignation which was addressed to AAP national convener ad Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab […]

NEW DELHI: In what spells out more trouble for Sushen Mohan Gupta, the alleged middleman in the French aviation company Dassault’s alleged agreement with a Chandigarh based software firm IDS Infotech, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found bills for his vacation in Thailand in December 2010 on New Year eve. The CBI chargesheet, […]

CHANDIGARH: A day after Punjab’s advocate-general APS Deol attacked Navjot Singh Sidhu in the ‘drugs matter’ and the ‘sacrilege cases’, the cricketer turned politician on Sunday hit back at him, alleging that the lawyer had appeared before the High Court for main conspirators and accused in the case. The Punjab Congress chief, Sidhu also accused […]

CHANDIGARH: The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Abhay Singh Chautala scored his fifth victory from Ellenabad in Haryana assembly by-elections. He beat BJP-JJP candidate Gobind Kanda and Congress candidate Pawan Beniwal. With this win, Chautala remains undefeated from this rural Jat-dominated seat since the 2010 by-elections. The bypoll was necessitated after Abhay Singh Chautala, […]

NEW DELHI: The bypoll results in 13 states and one union territory have shown mixed results. A revival for the Congress is seen in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan while the BJP and its partners are seen performing well in Madhya Pradesh and the northeast. RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was involved in an intense campaigning […]

MUMBAI: Amid allegations levelled by Maharashtra minister and senior Nationalist Congress leader, Nawab Malik, on the controversial Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, former Chief Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said that he will expose Malik’s links with the underworld post Diwali. ALSO READ: Akhilesh […]

LUCKNOW: BJP leadership in Uttar Pradesh has taken unkindly to the parallels drawn between Sardar VallabhBhai Patel — his contribution to India’s freedom struggle led saffron party to set up statue in his home state Gujarat— and Mohammad Ali Jinnah by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav during an address in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi. “One man […]

PANAJI/NEW DELHI: Days after poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s talks with Congress derailed, he once again targeted the grand old party saying that the BJP will continue to be a force to reckon for decades to come and problem is with former party chief Rahul Gandhi that he does not realise this. The Congress soon hit […]