Shiv Sena today decided to end its 29-year-old alliance with the BJP and said it will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly elections independent of its ally at the Centre and in the state. With its eyes set on the 2019 elections, the Shiv Sena’s national executive meeting at Mumbai’s NSCI grounds decided to go solo. “We will […]
» Read moreThe draft political resolution adopted at the meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) here has ruled out any electoral alliance or understanding with the Congress, party general secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Sunday. The final decision will be taken at the Party Congress to be held in Hyderabad in April, and electoral tactics […]
» Read moreThe Election Commission of India (ECI) is learnt to have recommended to President Ram Nath Kovind that 20 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs be disqualified on the office-of-profit charge. The President is bound by the Commission’s recommendation. The Commission, however, refused to comment on the issue, stating that the matter was sub judice. As and when the President issues orders for […]
» Read moreThe nomination of Narain Dass Gupta, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls from Delhi, was on Monday accepted by the Returning Officer (RO), after having been put on hold on January 6 over an office of profit charge. “Nomination of AAP’s RS candidate Shri ND Gupta accepted. Congress’s frivolous complaint dismissed. Cheap publicity stunt based on […]
» Read moreDays after announcing his entry into politics, actor Rajinikanth on Wednesday night met DMK chief M. Karunanidhi at his residence in Chennai and sought his blessings. DMK sources described it as a courtesy call. Clad in a white shirt and black pant, the actor extended his New Year greetings and apprised the DMK president and his aides of his political […]
» Read moreIshrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in the triple talaq case, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday. Ms. Jahan, a resident of Howrah district, was inducted into the party at its Howrah office. She was among the five petitioners in the triple talaq case, that led to Union government tabling a bill to criminalise talaq-e-biddat. Ms. Jahan […]
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