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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 […]

MUMBAI: A day after Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Unit Director Sameer Wankhede met agency’s chief SN Pradhan in Delhi amid the payoff row, Maharashtra Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Wednesday again upped his ante against the officer and shared his alleged first marriage certificate. This comes a […]

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A day after Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) commissioned a vigilance probe against its 2008-batch IRS and Mumbai zonal director, Sameer Wankhede, following extortion claims made by an independent witness, Prabhakar Sail, in the drugs-on-cruise probe involving Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Wankhede appeared before top officials at drug law enforcement agency’s headquarters in Delhi. […]

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday once again came down heavily on party leaders as she stressed that there is lack of clarity and cohesion even amongst the party’s state level on policy issues. Sonia Gandhi made the remarks at the party’s general secretaries, secretaries, state in-charges and state unit chiefs meeting at […]

NEW DELHI: As former Punjab Chief Minister and estranged Congress leader, Captain Amarinder Singh, made a formal announcement to float a new party, the Congress was once again caught off guard. To fix the situation, the party is now looking at hiring the services of a media strategy firm, WarRoom Strategies, to redeem the image. […]

NEW DELHI/GOA: There’s a degree of abandon and risk with which Prashant Kishor, a highly-ambitious and highly-rated poll-strategist, has switched sides after advising several political parties since 2014, so much that he has become a poacher for one and trotter for another. This, as India gears up for a political showdown in 2022 election battles […]