Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said: “It needs 100 births” to understand what Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar says. The Sena MP was replying to a question on the NCP chief’s virtual about-turn on the question of Maharashtra government formation by three parties — Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP — […]
After swearing-in as the seventh Executive President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed that Sri Lanka wants to stay out of conflicts among the world powers and would remain neutral in its foreign policy. “We will maintain friendly and cordial relationship with all the nations and we don’t want to be caught between power struggles […]
Photographers and videographers of print and electronic media outlets will not be permitted to take pictures of top Sri Lankan political leaders when they vote during Saturday’s presidential election, an official said here. Information Director-General Nalaka Kaluwewa said that pictures of President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former leader Chandrika Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapaksa and […]
Abdul Jabbar, whose name had for 35 years become synonymous with Bhopal gas tragedy survivors’ battle for better rehabilitation deal and health facilities, died on Thursday — in near penury and for want of proper treatment in over two months’ hospitalisation. The 62-year-old activist, who fought for justice for nearly 20,000 victims and thousands of […]
The 17 disqualified MLAs in Karnataka are open to contest the bypolls slated on December 5, as the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld their disqualification, but struck down Speaker’s decison to disqualify them till the end of term of the Legislative Assembly. A bench headed by Justice N.V. Ramana ruled that the Assembly Speaker is […]
The hot-and-cold relationship the BJP has had with its one of the oldest alliance partners Shiv Sena is not something new: the alliance has met dead-ends many times in the last 30 years. The Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party first stitched an alliance in 1989 for the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in […]
Though known to be an unpredictable politician, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati has never stunned her party workers so much as she did this week. Mayawati’s decision to withdraw her case against Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav in the 1995 infamous State Guest House case has shocked her party cadre, more so, because it […]
Parties with a definite Muslim base in Uttar Pradesh are looking for fresh options to revive themselves before the next Assembly elections, due in 2022. Uttar Pradesh has a Muslim population of over 19 per cent. The urban areas have 32 per cent Muslim population, while the rural areas have only 16 per cent. Over […]
Farmers in the suicide-prone rural Vidarbha and Marathwada regions have apparently voted overwhelmingly for the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena combine, a top farm activist said here on Monday. According to a post-poll analysis, the saffron allies bagged 52 of the 80 seats in the rural heartland, but lost out miserably in the remaining 28 seats […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre that how long it intends to continue with the restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. “How many days you want restrictions. It is already two months now. You have to come clear on this and you have to find out other methods,” […]