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Campaigning ends for 2nd phase of UP polls, polling on Monday
Lucknow, Feb 12 (UNI) Campaigning on 55 seats spread over nine districts for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections ended on Saturday. Nearly 2.01 voters will decide the fate of 586 candidates in this phase of polling, which will be held…
Rahul urges Goan voters to give majority to Congress
Panaji, Feb 11 (UNI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday urged the electorates to vote for the party so that it could win at least 30-35 seats and form a majority government. ''The fight is only between Congress and the Bhartiya…
Jairam Thakur: Channi should have resigned after PM’s security breach
Jalandhar, Feb 11 (UNI) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday said that Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi should have resigned on moral grounds after the grave security lapse during the visit of Prime…
CM Channi’s nephew sent to 14 days judicial custody
Jalandhar, Feb 11 (UNI) A local court on Friday sent Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey in judicial custody for 14 days. The council representing Enforcement Directorate demanded 7 days more…
Petrol bombs hurled at BJP Chennai HQ
Chennai, Feb 10 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in the city was attacked with petrol bombs by some unidentified miscreants in the wee hours of Thursday. Police sources said, some unidentified persons, who came in…
Phase I Polling begins in Western UP; 58 seats at stake today.
Lucknow, Feb 10 (UNI) Polling began at 58 Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh where 623 candidates, including 9 ministers, are trying their electoral luck. These constituencies, which are going to polls in the first phase, are…
Two former Tripura BJP MLAs join Congress
Agartala, Feb 8 (UNI) A day after resigning from the BJP and also as legislators, two senior Tripura politicians - Sudip Roy Barman and Ashis Kumar Saha - on Tuesday joined Congress at the party headquarters in New Delhi. All India…
Bommai, Karnataka HC appeal for peace after hijab protests turns violent
Bengaluru, Feb 8 (UNI) Amid protests turning violent in some parts of the state over hijab row, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday appealed for peace and ordered closure of all high schools and colleges for next three…
Kejriwal-Yogi spat over PM’s statement
New Delhi, Feb 8: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath indulged in a war of words on Twitter after the former alleged that PM Narendra Modi for "blatantly lying" in the Parliament on…
Officers working as BJP workers: Akhilesh
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 7 (UNI) Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged that some senior government officials in Uttar Pradesh were working as agents of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and said his party…
PM confident of BJP win in Uttrakhand
New Delhi, Feb 7 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that the 'double engine' government brought development in Uttarakhand by removing the brake on development put by the previous Congress government and claimed that…
Priyanka attacks AAP in Goa
Panaji, Feb 7 (UNI) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday said if the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) can't check pollution in Delhi, how will it protect the environment of Goa. ''AAP is making big promises in Goa but in Delhi we…
Congress ditches Navjot Sidhu again, makes Channi CM face
Chandigarh, Feb 6 (UNI) Central Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced the candidature of incumbent CM Charanjit Singh Channi as the Chief Minister face before the forthcoming state polls. In a virtual rally at Ludhiana, on Sunday, …
Naqvi slams Oppn parties in UP, terms them ‘SBC syndicate’
New Delhi, Feb 5 (UNI) Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukthar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday launched a scathing attack at Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Congress, terming them as the ''SBC syndicate" and appealed to…
Yogi files nomination in Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur, Feb 4 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP candidate from Gorakhpur Sadar Assembly seat
Yogi Adityanath on Friday filed his nomination papers in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Adityanath filed four…
PM Modi to conduct digital rallies in poll-bound UP, Uttarakhand today
New Delhi, Feb 3 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold relay rallies in poll-bound Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh digitally on Friday, he announced on Twitter. Sharing from his personal account, Modi posted about his schedule for…
Bengal schools and colleges reopen on Thursday
Kolkata, Feb 3 (UNI) Students returned to their classrooms across West Bengal on Thursday, as educational institutions reopened following the easing of the Covid19 curbs. In schools, offline teaching resumed for students of classes…
Facts grossly distorted on Kannur University: Kerala Guv
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (UNI) Kerala Raj Bhavan on Thursday strongly refuted the claim in some news reports that it was on the direction of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan that the name of Dr Gopinath Ravindran was suggested for…
Himachal CM inaugurates new projects in Hamirpur GMC
Hamirpur (HP), Feb 2(UNI) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday inaugurated histopathology lab, an automated Biochemistry Analyze, eye donation Center, Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre in Radhakrishnan…
BJP releases list for UP, Brijesh Pathak to fight from Lucknow Cantt
Lucknow, Feb 1: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday sprang a surprise by dropping women welfare minister Swati Singh. BJP on Tuesday released a list of 17 candidates for Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The party also changed the…