Ridiculing DMK chief M. Karunanidhi’s statement on alliance for coming polls, ruling AIADMK on Wednesday said its archrival has failed to bounce back from repeated electoral defeats since 2011 despite a number of...
AIADMK hits out at Karunanidhi on poll alliance statement
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Congress embarrasses CM, gives Hebbal ticket to Sharief's grandson
In an embarrassment to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the Congress high command on Tuesday chose former Union minister Jaffer Sharief’s grandson Rahaman over his candidate, Byrathi Suresh, to contest the Hebbal Assembly bypoll. The last minute decision came as a bolt from the blue to the chief minister who had received an informal approval from the central...
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Shiv Sena takes on BJP over ISIS supporters’ arrest
The Shiv Sena has taken another swipe at Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, this time over the issue of the arrest of alleged ISIS supporters from the state. The Sena has said that Fadnavis may have the remote control of the government in his hands but...
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Nine file nomination papers for byelection
Patna: With four more persons filing their nomination papers for bypolls to Harlakhi assembly constituency on Wednesday, the last day of filing nomination, the number of total candidates in the fray has now gone up to nine. The byelection was necessitated after the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) winner of 2015 polls, Basant Kumar, died due to heart attack on November 30 last year,...
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TDP MLA sends notice to Roja
: Payakaraopeta MLA Vangalapudi Anitha of the Telugu Desam sent a lawyer’s notice a few days ago to Nagari MLA R.K. Roja of the YSR Congress seeking an unconditional apology from her for using unparliamentary...
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Nine file nomination papers for byelection in Bihar's Harlakhi assembly seat
PATNA: With four more persons filing their nomination papers for bypolls to Harlakhi assembly constituency on Wednesday, the last day of filing nomination, the number of total candidates in the fray has now gone up to nine. The byelection was necessitated after the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) winner of 2015 polls, Basant Kumar, died due to heart attack on...
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BJP to hold convention of kumki land holders in Puttur on February 6
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district unit of BJP has decided to hold a convention of kumki land holders at Puttur on February 6. With an eye on polls to the panchayati raj bodies, the convention will strive to drive home an apparent lacunae in implementing an assurance given by the Congress in its...
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Kirti Azad to file plea in Delhi HC demanding time-bound SIT probe
Former Indian cricketer and BJP MP Kirti Azad Former Indian cricketer and BJP MP Kirti Azad will file a writ petition in the Delhi High Court demanding appointment of an administrator and time-bound SIT probe of the alleged irregularities – financial and administrative – in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA). Azad stated that his petition will also be against the central government, Delhi government, DDCA Executives – present and past – and the BCCI. When asked...
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BuzzFeed Slapped With $11 Million Defamation Lawsuit
Sorry, BuzzFeed, but this news item isn’t bulls*t. Central European News and its founder Michael Leidig have filed a defamation lawsuit for over $11 million in damages over a 2015 BuzzFeed article headlined “The King of Bullsh*t News.” The Aug. 24 piece, subtitled...
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Ex-CM's fresh plea in SC against President's rule in Arunachal
Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court challenging the promulgation of President's rule in the crisis-hit state. The plea filed by the Congress leader is likely to be taken up for hearing on Monday by a five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice J S Khehar, along with other petitions moved by persons like Rajesh Tacho, Chief Whip of Congress Legislature party in the state assembly. The plea has been filed after Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, representing the Centre, had...
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President
Congress leaders seek the President’s intervention. (PTI Photo) A day after the Union Cabinet recommended imposition of President’s Rule in Arunachal Pradesh, President Pranab Mukherjee sought clarifications Monday from Home Minister Rajnath Singh while the Congress challenged the Centre’s move in the Supreme Court and sought the President’s intervention. Singh met Mukherjee to explain the rationale behind the Cabinet decision. BJP sources said the Home Minister told the President that the “situation” in the state had deteriorated. But an angry Congress hit back and tried to rally other Opposition parties, saying the Centre was not just targeting the Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh...
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CM gives credit to successive Cong govts for HP's development
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday celebrated its 46th Statehood Day at Jaisinghpur in Kangra district with chief minister Virbhadra Singh crediting people and successive Congress governments for development that had taken place in the state. Himachal was granted statehood on January 25, 1971 and the state had been celebrating this momentous occasion every year since then. Addressing the people at the state level function,...
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Solar scam: Oommen Chandy govt in Kerala should resign, Javadekar says
COIMBATORE: Union environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar demanded the resignation of the Congress government in Kerala in the wake of solar scam accused Saritha S Nair's allegations...
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Paid Rs 1.90 crore bribe to Oommen Chandy, alleges Saritha Nair
Just a day ago, solar scam accused Saritha S Nair, in a recorded conversation, had stated that there is a lobby among Congress ministers in Kerala, who trap women, sexually exploit and exchange them among the colleagues. The solar scam accused Saritha S Nair on Wednesday told the judicial commission that she had paid a bribe of Rs 1.90 crore to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy through his aide in exchange for government...
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Solar scam: Gave Rs. 1.9 crore bribe to Chandy, says Saritha
In a new twist in the solar scam, the prime accused in the case today accused Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his cabinet colleague Arayadan Mohammed of accepting bribe, a charge both denied. Deposing before the Justice Sivarajan Commission probing the alleged scam in Kochi, prime accused Saritha S. Nair alleged that Rs. 1.90 crore had been given to Chandy’s key aide for facilitating setting up mega solar projects in the state. She also alleged she had paid a bribe of Rs 40 lakh to the PA of Power Minister Aryadan Muhammed. Mr. Chandy denied the charges saying it was “an attempt by Saritha to wriggle out” of the case. “Let her state what benefit she got after...
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In the hot seat
Amit Shah’s second term as BJP president . (Express Photo by Oinam Anand) Even as the Modi government completes a third of its term in office today, Amit Shah begins a new inning as the BJP national president. The party heads for elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puduchery assemblies in the next few months, after suffering humiliating defeats in Delhi and Bihar. The BJP had initially sensed a...
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Bose's grand-nephew joins BJP, 2 days after files declassified
Chandra Kumar Bose, grand-nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, today joined BJP, just two days after 100 secret files which could throw some light on the mystery over the INA chief's death were made public by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 119th birth anniversary. Bose joined the BJP in poll-bound West Bengal in the presence of party president Amit...
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The Shah Of The BJP
While the Congress is still uncertain about who will lead the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP has taken a head start. With the re-election of Amit Shah as BJP president, it is clear that the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah team will lead the party in 2019. Shah’s personality traits tilted the decision in his favour — a man of few words, he is committed to the ideological rooting of the party, balances the party-government equation unobtrusively, and enjoys the confidence of the RSS. With the BJP under Shah, Modi has complete freedom to implement his governance agenda. The tension between government and party, which...
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Political conspiracy behind the bribery allegations: Chandy
Alleging “political conspiracy” behind the bribery allegations made against him by a solar scam accused, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday blamed a section of the bar owners for it. The prime accused in the solar case Saritha S Nair had on Wednesday targeted Mr. Chandy and Power Minister Arayadan Mohammed while deposing before the Justice Sivarajan Commission in Kochi, probing the case, and had...
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Saritha accuses CM Chandy , power minister
The Congress-led UDF government in Kerala was today at the receiving end with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy facing the heat in the Solar scam with a prime accused alleging that bribes of over Rs two crore had been paid to him and a minister in his cabinet, even as the Opposition demanded Governor's intervention. The development comes barely days after the resignation of Excise Minister K Babu hours after a vigilance court directed registering of an FIR against him in the bar bribery case. The storm over the resignation, the second in the case after...
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