HYDERABAD,JUN 8 : Media baron Cherukuri Ramoji Rao passed away while undergoing treatment in a private hospital here in the city on the wee hours of Saturday. He was 87. Rao had been suffering from blood pressure as well as breath related ailments for a long time and was shifted to a hospital on June […]Continue Reading
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NARAYANPUR, JUN 7: Five Naxalites were killed and three jawans injured in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Friday, police said. The gunfight took place in a forest near Gobel village in the Orchha area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior police official said. Personnel […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi at their residences here on Friday, before staking claim to form the government at the Centre for a third consecutive term. Modi visited Advani soon after being chosen as the leader of the NDA parliamentary party, leader […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 7: Senior BJP leader Narendra Modi, who was elected as the leader of the NDA on Friday, thanked his coalition partners and remarked that mutual trust is at the core of the alliance. At a meeting of the NDA parliamentary party in the central hall of the old Parliament House, Modi was […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 7 : Three labourers from Uttar Pradesh were arrested after they attempted to enter the high-security Parliament complex by using forged Aadhaar cards. The Delhi Police arrested the three accused, Kasim, Monis and Soyeb, on charges of forgery and cheating. The trio were intercepted and detained by CISF personnel at the flap gate […]Continue Reading
Bengaluru, JUN 7 : A Bengaluru court on Friday granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in connection with a case filed by the BJP’s Karnataka unit for issuing “defamatory” advertisements in mainstream newspapers. The advertisement ahead of the Assembly polls last year accused the then BJP government in the state of indulging in large-scale […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 7: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing the pulls and pressures of running a coalition government even as the nuts and bolts of the NDA 3.0 are being worked out. While offering unconditional support to the BJP-led NDA, one of its principal allies Janata Dal United JD(U) on Thursday demanded a […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 6 : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday confirmed that it would contest the Assembly election solo without an alliance. Delhi Minister Gopal Rai said that the alliance with Congress was for the Lok Sabha elections and there wouldn’t be an alliance in the Delhi Assembly polls. The party will face […]Continue Reading
Chandigarh, Jun 6 : Kangana Ranaut, Bollywood actor and BJP’s MP-elect from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, on Thursday alleged that a CISF security official at Chandigarh Airport slapped her while she was travelling to Delhi. According to Ranaut, when she was proceeding to the boarding point after the security check, the CISF woman official, Kulwinder Kaur, […]Continue Reading
New Delhi, Jun 6 : The BJP faces a stiff alliance test in its third term and its signs were visible on Thursday as its ally, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), said it would demand a review of the Agnipath recruitment scheme for the Army. JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said there was resentment against the Agnipath scheme, […]Continue Reading
