India

Kolkata, Jan 21: Casting apprehensions on the agenda of the grand alliance stitched together by opposition parties, Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav on Sunday said the 'Mahagathbandhan' is a "big joke" and filled with "hollow people" with no ideology. He said all the leaders in the grand alliance, who are portraying themselves as anti-BJP or anti-Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi), were

Jan 21: The fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi has surredered his Indian passport to the Antiguan government, news reports said Monday morning. Choksi is one of the main accused — the other being his nephew Nirav Modi — in the over Rs 13,000 crore Punjab and National Bank scam. Choksi fled to Antigua in January 2018 and has been living there since. He had in December last year told a Mumbai

Chandauli, Jan 21: An MLA from the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday came under strident criticism from allies and opposition leaders for calling BSP chief Mayawati a "blot on womankind" and "worse than a transgender". Sadhna Singh, the Mughalsarai MLA, made the controversial remarks at a rally on Saturday while referring to the infamous incident when Mayawati was assaulted by Samajwadi Party

New Delhi, Jan 20: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led high-powered panel on CBI chief will meet on Thursday and discuss probable names for the coveted post. The panel meeting will be attended by Chief Justice of India Rajan Gogoi or his nominee and Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, officials said. Among the officers whose name would be discussed at the meeting are J K Sharma

Firozabad, Jan 20: The recent TMC-led mega opposition rally in Kolkata where Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav had participated did not adequately represent the interests of the Muslim minority, senior party leader Azam Khan has said. “The representation of the second biggest population or the Muslim minority was merely namesake. Only one leader from Kashmir and another from Assam attended

Prayagraj, Jan 20: In another shining example of unity in diversity, a Muzaffarnagar resident has been coming to the Kumbh Mela for more than three decades to help the Sadhus light up their tents. This time as well, he will put up at the festival in Prayagraj – which is 800 km from his hometown – for the next two months. Though Mohammed Mehmood got acquainted with the Sadhus of the Juna Akhada a

New Delhi, Jan 20: BJP president Amit Shah, who was undergoing treatment for swine flu at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, was discharged Sunday. "Shah was discharged at 10.20AM from AIIMS after recovering from swine flu," said an AIIMS official. BJP leader and in-charge of the party's IT cell Amit Malviya said Shah was fine and has returned home from the hospital. "BJP President

Panaji, Jan 20: Senior BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Saturday claimed minorities felt safe under the Narendra Modi-led Union government as it never distinguished between people on the basis of caste or religion. Addressing a press conference here, the BJP national spokesperson also hit out at the Congress for creating a "fear psychosis" among minorities. "Minority communities were falsely told

Dehradun, Jan 20: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has started showing "some signs of maturity", feels BJP MP Saroj Pandey, who had earlier described him as "mandh-buddhi (dim-wit)". Pandey, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh, made the comment while responding to a question from a journalist here last evening. "He (Rahul) has started showing some signs of maturity," she said when asked to

New Delhi, Jan 19: Though UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi gave a miss to the ‘India United Rally’ at Kolkata, of all opposition parties, organised by Trinamool Congress on Saturday, Ms Gandhi made her presence through a message. In the message, read out by Congress Lok Sabha leader Mallikarjun Kharge at the rally, she said ‘an envelope of crisis looms from our