CONGRESS leader Mr. Rahul Gandhi has indulged in the same nonsense again -- by levelling accusations that one person -- Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi -- and one party -- Bharatiya Janata Party -- are trying to abolis..

    NEW DELHI,   IN A significant development, 1,500 members from the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, along with Singh Sabha and other Sikh organisations, joined BJP on Saturday, just weeks ahead of Lok Sabha e..

     PUNE,    The 2024 Lok Sabha polls will decide the future of the country, said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday in Baramati, where his wife Sunetra Pawar is the ruling alliance candi..

     By Ajit DubeyNEW DELHI,    IN A major boost for firepower of its fighter aircraft fleet, the Indian Air Force has inducted the Rampage long-range supersonic air-to-ground missiles which can hit targets at ..

    MUMBAI,    THE Bharatiya Janata Party has denied renomination to its two-term sitting MP Poonam Mahajan from the Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency and fielded prominent lawyer Ujjwal Nikam -- who serve..

     IMPHAL,    TWO CRPF personnel were killed and two others injured as militants attacked a camp of security forces in Manipur’s Bishnupur district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The milit..

Make Narendra Modi PM for third term to rid country of terrorism and Naxalism, says Shah..

OVER 63 per cent polling was reported in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections covering 88 seats across 13 States amid few complaints of EVM glitches and bogus voting in some states. Voters in some villages of Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, Rajasthan’s Banswara and Maharashtra’s Parbhani were boycotting the polls over various issues but were later persuaded by authorities to cast their franchise. Polling for the second stage of the seven-phase elections started at 7 am and ended at 6 pm. Several states ..

A MUMBAI court on Friday remanded to police custody till April 30 two men arrested from Punjab in connection with the firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s residence in Bandra. Subhash Chander (37) and Anuj Thapan (32) were produced before a magistrate’s court. The crime branch on Thursday arrested the duo, who had allegedly provided weapons and cartridges to the shooters, from Punjab...

Lok Sabha polls: Tripura records 54.47 per cent voter turnout, Maharashtra at lowest with 31.77 per cent till 1 pm..

    RANCHI,    THE Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Thursday announced that Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed former Chief Minister Hemant Soren, will contest the bypoll from Gandey Assembly seat. The seat in Giridih dis..

     By Bishaswar MalakarKOLKATA,    THE 2024 Lok Sabha elections are on track to break past records and become the most expensive electoral event in the world, according to a poll expert. The estimated expendi..

    NEW DELHI,    THE Supreme Court will, on Friday, pronounce its judgement on a batch of petitions seeking mandatory cross-verification of the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable ..

VOTING for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls will be held on Friday for 88 seats in 13 States with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi seeking a second-straight term from Wayanad in Kerala. All 20 seats of Kerala will go to polls besides 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, 8 seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 6 seats in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats each in Assam and Bihar, 3 seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and 1 seat each in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir. Though ..

HISTORY-MAKING teen Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh was swamped by fans as he returned to an enthusiastic reception here on Thursday after becoming the youngest challenger to the world title following his triumph at the prestigious Candidates Chess Tournament in Toronto. Hundreds of students from the Velammal Vidyalaya, the school where Gukesh studies, lined up at the airport at least one hour before his flight landed to greet the 17-year-old chess prodigy. A sizeable general crowd also built up as his ..

      CONGRESS party’s so-called mod and extremely westernised ideologue Mr. Sam Pitroda -- sitting in a foreign land -- has exposed the negative philosophy and policy of his party about what he may love to describe as ..

     DEHRADUN,     PRESIDENT Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday emphasised re-evaluating the standards of development and said the destruction of forests is, in a way, destruction of humanity. “Unsustainable exp..

     DANTEWADA,   AS MANY as 18 Naxalites, including a militia platoon section commander and three women, surrendered on Wednesday in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, a senior police officer said. Hidma Oyam (34) was..

     NEW DELHI,     CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying those who call themselves ‘deshbhakt’ are scared of the ‘X..

     ALAPPUZHA (Kerala),   SENIOR BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday attacked the Congress and the ruling Left in Kerala, accusing them of protecting terrorism in the State and taking the supp..

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at the Congress, saying the “vote bank-hungry” party wanted to implement reservation on the basis of religion. Addressing a poll rally in Ambikapur, the headquarters of Surguja district in Chhattisgarh, he also alleged that the Congress wanted to impose inheritance tax in the country and snatch the assets and rights of people and their children. Some forces want a “weak” Government of the Congress and “I.N.D.I.” alliance to be in power in the country ..

SWAMI Gautamanandaji Maharaj was elected as the 17th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, an official communication said. Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj succeeds Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj, who passed away in Kolkata last month. The 95-year-old monk was elected at the meeting of the board of trustees of the Math and the governing body of the Mission held at Belur Math on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his best wishes to Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj on being ..

     THE people of India need to listen to the appeal to sanity by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi’s that they should not get distracted by false propaganda by the Opposition that in its third term the Modi Government would..

     NOIDA,    Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never done politics on the basis of religion or by dividing the society and stressed that his predecessor Dr Manmoh..

    NEW DELHI,    FORMER Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the “frequent” party-hopping by political leaders was a “disturbing trend” and called for strengthening the anti-defec..