Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members Tuesday protested outside BJP leader Arun Jaitley’s house following which BJP workers held a counter protest against the party. While the supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party accused Jaitley of trying to topple the AAP government in Delhi, Jaitley said the AAP does not know about governance and was more […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will address rallies in Tripura this month to launch their parties’ campaign for the Lok Sabha polls in the northeast, party leaders said Sunday. “Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would address an election rally in Agartala Feb 22 to kick off his campaign […]
Visually-impaired students turned navigators Sunday for a car rally here to create awareness among people that the blind can also use their skills despite their disability. The drivers were completely unaware of the 50-km route and were dependent on their visually-impaired navigators to help them with directions on the Braille road map. Over 50 cars […]
Expressing disillusion with the Aam Aadmi Party’s functioning of late, founder member Madhu Bhaduri has dissociated herself from the political outfit. “I have removed myself from the party. The party does not treat women as human beings,” Bhaduri, a former ambassador to Portugal, told IANS. She was indirectly referring to the midnight incident in south […]
Former West Bengal Chief Minister and CPI-M leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday admitted that the Netai incident, in which nine people died, was a “grave mistake” committed by the party workers. Nine people, including four women, were killed and 28 others were injured in the January 2011 clashes, triggered by assailants allegedly backed by the Communist […]
A divisional commander of guerrilla outfit Hizbul Mujahideen was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district Sunday, a police official said. “Mubarak Ahmad Wani alias Major Saqib was arrested in a joint operation by the state police, army and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Hanji Dantar village near Anantnag town,” Anantnag’s Senior Superintendent […]
Delhi legislator Vinod Kumar Binny — expelled from the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) — and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MLA Shoaib Iqbal Sunday threatened to withdraw support to the one-month-old government if it did not agree to their demands. Binny also claimed to have the support of three other legislators, including an Independent who had […]
A 32-year-old man has been arrested for his involvement in the molestation of two Manipuri women in the capital, police said Sunday. The incident occurred before Republic Day but came to light after the death of Nido Tania, a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh. Delhi Police arrested Prem Chand, a resident of Kotla Mubarakpur area […]
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was Sunday slapped by a youth while he was going for a rally in the state’s industrial city of Panipat. The youth, Kamal Mukhija, was arrested by the police and booked for breaching the security of the chief minister. A video grab of the incident, taken by an unidentified […]
Policies of the next central government take primacy, not who becomes the prime minister, said CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury Sunday. “It is not important who will become the next prime minister. What is important for the country is, what will be the policies of the dispensation that takes over at the centre after the upcoming […]