Jaipur, March 21 (IANS) Senior BJP leader Jawant Singh is annoyed over not being considered from Rajasthan’s Barmer constituency and “may even consider” contesting the Lok Sabha elections as an independent, a party leader said. Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have begun to pacify Jaswant Singh, who has threatened to quit the party and contest from Barmer […]
Mumbai, March 21 (IANS) A Mumbai court Friday awarded life sentence to four of the five accused in the gang-rape of a 19-year-old call centre employee July 31, 2013 in the Shakti Mills Complex here. The accused were found guilty by Principal Sessions Judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi Thursday in one of the two gang-rape cases committed in […]
Mumbai, March 21 (IANS) Controversy again dogged the uneasy relations between the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) amid reports here Friday that the allies may contest against each other in some seats in Uttar Pradesh. Shiv Sena youth leader Aditya Thackeray immediately dismissed the reports as “rumours”, while a party spokesperson declined to […]
Dehradun, March 21 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Satpal Maharaj Friday resigned from the Congress. He is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the day, party sources said. The senior leader, who is a sitting member of parliament from the Paudhi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttarakhand, has been sulking for some time after he […]
Ranchi, March 21 (IANS) Jharkhand assembly Speaker Shashank Shekhar Bhokta has issued notice to two JMM legislators who the BJP has fielded as its candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, an official said Friday. “Taking suo moto action based on newspaper reports, notice has been issued to JMM legislators Hemanlal Murmu and Vidyut Baran Mahto for […]
Jammu, March 21 (IANS) Despite his initial reluctance, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will fight for the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir and no one is happier over the decision than Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Top sources told IANS that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had called Azad and discussed his nomination before […]
Gurgaon, March 20 (IANS) AAP’s Yogendra Yadav and Congress’s Rao Dharampal were among seven candidates who filed their nomination papers Thursday for the Gurgaon Lok Sabha seat, officials said. The Indian National Lok Dal’s Zakir Hussain, Bahujan Samaj Party’s Dharampal Pahalwan Rathi and Independent candidate Abdul Latif also filed their papers. Aam Aadmi Party candidate Yogendra […]
Hyderabad, March 20 (IANS) Loksatta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan plans to contest for Lok Sabha from Malakjgiri constituency here. He told reporters Thursday that he has received several requests from people from all walks of life, well-wishers and even major political parties to fight Lok Sabha elections. Jayaprakash was elected to Andhra Pradesh assembly in 2009 […]
Dharamsala, March 20 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Thursday slammed the BJP’s ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), saying even Sardar Patel described “it as a poisonous outfit that can destroy the nation”. “Sardar Patel-ji ne kaha tha ki RSS ek zehreela sangathan hai (Sardar Patel has said the RSS is poisonous outfit) and […]
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday expressed sadness at the death of noted writer Khushwant Singh and said his works had delighted generations of readers. “I am deeply saddened to learn about the passing away of Khushwant Singh,” the president said in a message to Rahul Singh, the writer’s son. “A prolific writer […]