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Ready for BJP versus all in 2019: Amit Shah
BJP President Amit Shah on Monday accepted the challenge of opposition parties coming together against his party for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and said it has a strong booth-level orgnaisational network and the charisma of Prime Minister…
BJP leads in Karnataka vote count
The BJP was ahead of the ruling Congress on Tuesday as officials counted the millions of votes polled in the Karnataka Assembly election, leaving the JD-S far behind, officials said.
Determined to make a comeback in its only southern…
Rathore replaces Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal to look after Jaitley’s portfolios
In a reshuffle of portfolios effected on Monday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Smriti Irani was moved out of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and Rajyavardhan Rathore, who had been a Minister of State in the Ministry since…
10 killed, 50 injured in West Bengal Panchayat Poll violence
At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 injured on Monday in violence during the West Bengal Panchayat Polls, where around 73 per cent of the electorate had cast their votes at the end of balloting hours at 5 p.m.
The State…
PNB Fraud: Finance Ministry initiates action against Allahabad Bank CEO
The Finance Ministry on Monday started the process of removing Allahabad Bank CEO and MD Usha Ananthasubramanian from her post after the CBI filed a chargesheet detailing her alleged role in the over Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank…
Modi to visit Russia on May 21 for informal Summit with Putin
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on May 21 for an informal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, the government said on Monday. Modi will travel to Russia at Putin's invitation.
An External Affairs Ministry…
Shashi Tharoor named in Sunanda Pushkar death charges
Delhi Police on Monday filed charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar and named her widower Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP, as one of the accused.
The charges were filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under Indian…
Bengal Left activist, wife killed in fire; CPI-M blames Trinamool
In the wake of violence surrounding the West Bengal rural polls, a CPI-M activist and his wife were burnt to death in their house allegedly by a group of miscreants backed by the Trinamool Congress in South 24 Parganas district's Namkhana,…
Ministry of Home Affairs puts storm toll at 53
Dust storm, hail and lightning have claimed as many as 53 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi, said Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday.
As per the MHA report, 39 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh on the…
Fresh spate of storm in UP, 23 dead
(IANS) Dust storm, hail and lightning have claimed as many as 23 lives in the last 12 hours in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Monday.
The storm hit Etawah, Banda, Auriyya, Meerut, Kanpur rural, Kannauj, Farukkhabad and Orai…