Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) Former Andhra minister Konda Surekha and her husband Konda Murali Tuesday joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). Surekha and Murali, a former legislator, had quit the YSR Congress party last year after it opposed formation of separate Telangana state and rejoined the Congress party, which they had left in 2009. However, as […]
Amritsar, March 18 (IANS) BJP leader Arun Jaitley’s arrival here Tuesday started literally with a ‘bang’ when gas-filled balloons put up for his welcome caught fire from exploding firecrackers. Jaitley and other party leaders suffered minor burn injuries as the balloons went off at the Novelty Chowk when his procession reached there. Jaitley, the Bharatiya Janata […]
Bhubaneswar, March 18 (IANS) A strong anti-incumbency mood prevails across Odisha against the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former union minister Jual Oram said. “People are frustrated for many reasons…They are upset with the deteriorating law and order, increasing atrocities against women, chit fund […]
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress Tuesday released its fourth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, including the son of late Indian president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, and said it will play a decisive role in government formation post-elections. The candidates have been announced for seven seats in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha. […]
Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) Popular Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, who floated a political party last week, is likely to have an electoral alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the forthcoming elections. Pawan, who launched Jana Sena with the slogan of ‘Congress hatao, desh bachao’ (remove Congress, save the country) will meet senior BJP leaders in […]
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Delhiites woke up to a rainy Tuesday morning and the Met Office forecast brief spells of rain in the forenoon. “The sky will remain partly cloudy. Rain or thundershower could occur in some areas till noon,” said an India Meteorological Department official. The day’s minimum temperature settled at 19.6 degrees Celsius, […]
Hyderabad, March 17 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s intervention saved the party from a setback in Telangana as two legislators dropped their plans to cross over to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The legislators said that after receiving a phone call from Gandhi, they decided not to leave the party. One of them, Nandishwar Goud, […]
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), March 17 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lose “by a big margin” in the Lok Sabha polls here, AAP leader and candidate Kumar Vishwas says. The Arvind Kejriwal associate also said in an interview that the biggest losers of the election in Uttar Pradesh will be, besides the Congress, the Bahujan […]
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The BJP Monday dismissed AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as no threat to its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi but the Aam Aadmi Party said it was ready for a showdown in Varanasi. “We don’t take Kejriwal seriously. There is a Modi wave in the entire country,” Bharatiya Janata Party’s media convenor […]
Patna, March 17 (IANS) Millions in Bihar celebrated Holi Monday with traditional fervour. But Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not one of them, and it was a low key Holi for RJD leader Lalu Prasad. Nitish Kumar did not mark Holi to express grief over the death of 23 children who died after consuming mid-day meal […]