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Election results setback for Modi, Shah: | New Delhi, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) The results of Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland are a setback for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, the CPI-M has said, warning that the BJP may be tempted now to whip up more communal frenzy. | 13-Dec-2018 |
NOTA votes exceeded victory margin in 12 | Jaipur, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) In 12 Assembly seats in Rajasthan, NOTA (None of the Above) garnered more votes than the margin by which candidates won the election, affecting both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). | 13-Dec-2018 |
Regional parties will take Indian politi | Hyderabad, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has predicted that the regional parties will take the Indian politics by storm, providing an alternative to both Congress and BJP. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Bengal government asks BJP to meet top o | Kolkata, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) A day after the Calcutta High Court division bench turned down its objections to holding talks with two of three BJP representatives, the West Bengal government on Wednesday wrote to the state BJP leadership asking them to meet top officials led by the Chief Secretary at the city police headquarters in Lalbazar on Thursday to deliberate on the party's "Rath Yatra" programme, informed sources said. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Centre asks IISc to design data site for | Bengaluru, Dec 13 (TIWN / IANS) The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has asked the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to design a data site for information exchange among smart cities, the premier institute said on Wednesday. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Assam NRC claims, objections can be file | New Delhi, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended till December 31 the deadline for filing claims and objection by around 40 lakh people who were left out of Assam's draft National Register of Citizens (NRC). | 12-Dec-2018 |
Suspense continues over Rajasthan CM | Jaipur, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) Who will be Rajasthan's new Congress Chief Minister? The question remained unanswered on Wednesday as the first round of meeting of newly elected MLAs failed to decide on a leader. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 p.m. | New Delhi, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) The Rajya Sabha was on Wednesday adjourned till 2 p.m., soon after it reconvened at 12 noon after an earlier adjournment. | 12-Dec-2018 |
Congress will return to power at Centre: | Shillong, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) After his party's victory in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Tuesday exuded confidence that the Congress will return to power at the Centre as well. | 11-Dec-2018 |
We accept people's verdict with humility | New Delhi, Dec 12 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the BJP accepts with humility verdict of people in the five states and congratulated the Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the Mizo National Front (MNF) for their victories. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Assembly election results give clear mes | New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Observing that the Assembly election results in five states were a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said opposition parties would unitedly fight and defeat the BJP in 2019 elections with the central themes being unemployment, agrarian distress and corruption. | 11-Dec-2018 |
MNF wins Mizoram, Congress' last Northea | Aizawl, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) Securing an absolute majority in the 40-member Mizoram Assembly, the MNF on Tuesday returned to power after a decade, crushing the Congress and ousting it from power in the last Northeastern state it ruled. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Congress leads in three BJP-ruled states | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) Congress candidates on Tuesday took significant leads in BJP-ruled Rajasthan and was inching ahead of the BJP in both Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in Assembly elections held in five states. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Congress set for landslide win in Chhatt | Raipur, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) As predicted by exit polls, the Congress on Tuesday appeared headed for a landslide win in Chhattisgarh, dealing a major blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has ruled the state for 15 long years, officials said. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Celebrations at TRS HQ in Hyderabad | Hyderabad, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) Celebrations began at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) headquarters here on Tuesday as it became clear that the party was heading for a landslide victory in the Assembly elections. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Congress set for landslide win in Chhatt | Raipur, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) As predicted by exit polls, the Congress on Tuesday appeared headed for a landslide win in Chhattisgarh, dealing a major blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has ruled the state for 15 long years, officials said. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Celebrations at TRS HQ in Hyderabad | Hyderabad, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) Celebrations began at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) headquarters here on Tuesday as it became clear that the party was heading for a landslide victory in the Assembly elections. | 11-Dec-2018 |
Congress may be heading for landslide wi | Raipur, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) The Congress appeared to be heading for a landslide victory on Tuesday in Chhattisgarh, dealing a major blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Election Commission officials said. | 10-Dec-2018 |
Assam seeks one more month for filing NR | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) The Assam government on Monday sought one more month's time to file claims and objections by around 40 lakh people who have been left out of the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the state. | 10-Dec-2018 |
Leaders of 21 parties resolve to work to | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN / IANS) Senior leaders of 21 opposition parties including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, TDP, AAP, NCP and the DMK met here on Monday and resolved to work together to "defeat the BJP-RSS" and to expose the ruling party's "corruption". | 10-Dec-2018 |
India test fires Agni-V missile | Bhubaneswar, Dec 10 (IANS) India successfully test fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V off the Odisha coast on Monday. | 10-Dec-2018 |
Railways to provide jerk-free rides on S | New Delhi, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) Moving ahead with technology, Indian Railways' fleet of Shatabdi Express and Rajdhani Express trains will offer a jerk-free journey to passengers from March 2019, railway officials said on Monday. | 10-Dec-2018 |
Modi asks MPs to utilize winter session | New Delhi, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Naredndra Modi on Monday appealed to all MPs at an all-party meeting to utilize the winter session of Parliament well as it will be the last full-fledged session before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. | 10-Dec-2018 |
DRT serves notice to Nirav Modi, family | Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS / TIWN) The Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) on Monday served notice to absconder diamantaire Nirav Modi, his family members and his companies to recover over Rs 7,000 crore owed to the Punjab National Bank (PNB). | 10-Dec-2018 |
Renowned historian Mushirul Hasan passes | New Delhi, Dec 10 (TIWN / IANS) Renowned historian Mushirul Hasan, a former Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, died on Monday. He was 71. | 10-Dec-2018 |
GoAir flies to Phuket, Male from Bengalu | Bengaluru, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) Budget carrier GoAir on Sunday flew for the first time from Bengaluru to Phuket in Thailand and Male in Maldives, the company said. | 09-Dec-2018 |
Rahul writes to Congress CMs for passage | New Delhi, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Congress/alliance governments in the states to have a resolution passed in their respective assemblies seeking one-third reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. | 09-Dec-2018 |
Scindia to be in MP on counting day | Bhopal, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia will be in the Madhya Pradesh capital on December 11, the day when counting of vote for the state Assembly elections will be held, the party said on Sunday. | 09-Dec-2018 |
Mumbai diamantaire murder: politician, s | Mumbai, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) In a sensational development, a politician and a suspended policeman have been arrested while a prominent model-cum-television actress was interrogated under detention by Mumbai Police following the mysterious murder of a diamantaire, Rajeshwar K. Udani, officials said on Saturday. | 08-Dec-2018 |
Man attacks Ramdas Athawale in Maharasht | Thane (Maharashtra), Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) A youth pushed and allegedly assaulted Union Minister of State Ramdas Athawale after a function in Ambernath town, late on Saturday night, officials said. | 08-Dec-2018 |
Don't prejudge without proof: Army chief | New Delhi, Dec 9 (TIWN / IANS) Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Saturday told the media to not "prejudge" things without proof in the alleged involvement of a soldier in the Bulandshahr violence in which a police officer and a civilian were killed. | 08-Dec-2018 |
Ex-militant killed in Manipur | Imphal, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) A former member of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), who had laid down arms last year, was gunned down in Manipur here early on Saturday, police said. | 08-Dec-2018 |
14 die as bus falls into gorge in J&K | Jammu, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) Fourteen people were killed and 16 others injured on Saturday when a bus fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, police said on Saturday. | 08-Dec-2018 |
Train derails in UP | Lucknow, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) Two coaches of a goods train derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Farukkhabad district on Saturday, a railway official said. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Voting underway for 8th phase of J&K pan | Jammu/Srinagar, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) Voting was underway on Saturday for the eighth phase of the panchayat polls across Jammu and Kashmir amid tight security. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Bulandshahr mob violence: Two police off | Lucknow, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) Two police officials have been transferred in connection to the mob violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr town earlier this week where an inspector and a civilian were killed, authorities said on Saturday. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Human rights violation rampant in countr | Kolkata, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) Human rights violation is rampant throughout the country in the form of Bulandshahr Killing, death in Bengal's Lalgarh or Kathua rape case, a panel of human rights workers said here on Friday. | 07-Dec-2018 |
AIR employee accused of sexual harassmen | New Delhi, Dec 8 (TIWN / IANS) An All India Radio (AIR) official accused of sexual harassment by nine women employees has been demoted from his position and subjected to other salary cuts as he was found guilty, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said on Friday. | 07-Dec-2018 |
NC not to align with anyone for Lok Sabh | Jammu, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Friday ruled out any alliance for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Over 41% polling reported in Rajasthan | Jaipur, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) More than 41 per cent of the over four crore electorate cast their votes in the first five hours of the Rajasthan Assembly elections, a poll official said. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Cogent evidence against Asthana, need th | New Delhi, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) CBI chief Alok Verma on Friday defended the filing of FIR against special CBI Director Rakesh Asthana and contended that the "serious allegations of corruption and extortion" against his deputy need to be thoroughly investigated. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Congress MP from Bihar dead | Patna, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha member from Bihar's Kishanganj, Maulana Asrar-ul-Haque Qasmi, passed away early on Friday following a heart attack. He was 76. | 07-Dec-2018 |
48 percent polling in Telangana by 1 p.m | Hyderabad, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) Heavy polling was recorded in the Telangana Assembly election on Friday, with officials reporting 48 percent voter turnout by 1 p.m. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Modi appeals to Rajasthan, Telangana vot | New Delhi, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to the people of Rajasthan and Telangana to participate in the Assembly polls, currently underway in both the states. | 07-Dec-2018 |
Polling underway in Rajasthan to elect n | Jaipur, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) Polling was underway in Rajasthan on Friday to elect a new state Assembly amid tight security. | 06-Dec-2018 |
Voting underway in Telangana Assembly po | Hyderabad, Dec 7 (TIWN / IANS) Polling was underway in Telangana on Friday to elect a new state Assembly amid tight security. | 06-Dec-2018 |
SC reserves verdict on Alok Verma plea, | New Delhi, Dec 6 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a plea by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Alok Verma and NGO Common Cause challenging the government's decision to divest him of his charges, asking if the government action was "proportionate" to the allegation against him. | 06-Dec-2018 |
Amritsar Dusshera function had no permis | Chandigarh, Dec 6 (TIWN / IANS) The magisterial inquiry into the Amritsar train tragedy that claimed 61 lives has held that the Dusshera event organised by a ruling Punjab Congress leader was held "without permission" and "without undertaking required safety and security measures". | 06-Dec-2018 |
Calcutta High Court denies permission to | Calcutta, Dec 6 (INDIAN Express / TIWN): The Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected the BJP’s petition to allow them to hold ‘Rath Yatras’ in West Bengal, which was scheduled to be inaugurated by party’s national president Amit Shah from Cooch Behar tomorrow. | 06-Dec-2018 |
Rajasthan, Telangana will vote on Friday | Jaipur/Hyderabad, Dec 6 (TIWN / IANS) Rajasthan and Telangana will go to the polls on Friday in a high-stakes battle, the results of which along with those in three other states can be a pointer to which way the wind is blowing ahead of next year's general elections. | 06-Dec-2018 |