NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday escalated its battle with the Election Commission, claiming that a Right to Information (RTI) response has exposed “serious contradictions” in the poll body’s stance over the ongoing row over recently conducted special intensive revision (SIR) in poll-bound Bihar.Taking to X, the Congress asserted that its RTI query revealed “no…
NEW DELHI: Congress General Secretary Sachin Pilot on Friday raised three pointed questions for the Centre during the ongoing Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar. Speaking from West Champaran, Pilot said the credibility of the Election Commission was under suspicion and stressed that the people of the country would not tolerate “vote theft.”In a post on…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday underlined what it called the “irony” of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah joining Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar against alleged “vote chori” (vote theft), recalling that the Congress leader himself had once accused the party of stealing votes.In a video…
PM Modi is presented with a Daruma Doll in Japan. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was gifted a Daruma Doll by chief priest of the Shorinzan Daruma-Ji Temple, Rev Seishi Hirose, on his two-day visit to Japan. The Daruma is an iconic cultural symbol and souvenir of Japan. It has a strong…
NEW DELHI: A war of words ensued between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday after abuses were allegedly hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the INDIA bloc’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” at Darbhanga.A day after the incident, Union home minister Amit Shah sharpened his attack against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday underlined what it called the “irony” of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah joining Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar against alleged “vote chori” (vote theft), recalling that the Congress leader himself had once accused the party of stealing votes.In a video…
NEW DELHI: Senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, while making his arguments on the scope of a governor’s powers in assenting to bills, read out a passage from one of Justice Krishna Iyer’s judgments and compared the judge’s prowess in English with that of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, incidentally both hailing from Kerala. Singhvi said unlike…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday ruled out the organisation’s support for campaigns to reclaim temples in Kashi and Mathura, saying the Ram temple movement was the only one backed by the Sangh.“Ram temple is the only movement that the RSS supported, it will not join any other, but our…
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar (File photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Bihar chief ministerNitish Kumar on Friday announced a new women-centric initiative, the “Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana” (Chief Minister Women’s Employment Scheme) to provide financial assistance to one woman from each family in the poll-bound state to support employment opportunities of their choice.“Ever since we first formed the…
(Screen grab from video posted by: X @rebelliousdogra) NEW DELHI: Heavy monsoon rains on Tuesday flooded the campus of Government Gandhi Memorial (GGM) Science College and Cluster University in Jammu. Videos circulating on social media show students carrying their bags on their heads as they wade through knee-deep water, while classrooms and hostels remain submerged,…