BJP's Gurdaspur MP and Bollywood actor Sunny Deol today delivered some famous dialogues from his hit films to seek votes for Haryana Minister Capt Abhimanyu, who is seeking re-election from Narnaund in Haryana's Hisar district.
Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Thursday October 17, 2019, Mumbai
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today criticised the Maharashtra BJP for propping up VD Savarkar as an ideal choice for the Bharat Ratna in its election manifesto, claiming that the ideas preached by the Hindutva ideologue make him unsuitable for such an honour.
A Border Security Force soldier was killed while another got seriously inured when a patrol party came under fire from Bangladeshi Border Guards along the India-Bangladesh border at West Bengal.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay recently submitted a 21-page petition to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and his deputies Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra urging them to use their plenary powers under Article 324 to replace party symbols on voting machines and ballot papers with candidate details.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government is committed to alleviating poverty besides reducing unemployment, combating illiteracy and upholding human rights.
Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee, who earlier this week won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, has been supporting the education of two children at a school in Dehradun in Jogiwala under the Kabir Memorial Scholarship.
Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Thursday October 17, 2019, New Delhi
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the rising air pollution levels will remain a "problem" until smoke originating from stubble burning in neighbouring states is not "tackled".
Launching an offensive against the Congress, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today accused the party of internationalising the Kashmir issue and reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is India's internal matter.
Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday October 17, 2019, New Delhi
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he didn't see the economy reaching the 5 trillion dollar target by 2024, with growth declining year after year. He also said the economy is in a "vicious slowdown" which could be salvaged only if the growth rate shot up.
People are in mood for a change in Maharashtra and the scrapping of Article 370, raised aggressively by the BJP, does not seem to be resonating with people at grass-root level in the state, Nationalist Congress Party or NCP chief Sharad Pawar has claimed.
The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) has filed a complaint with the Bar Council of India (BCI) against senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who appeared for Muslim petitioners in the Ayodhya case and tore down papers and maps handed over to him in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Former Shiv Sena MLA Harshwardhan Jadhav's residence in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district was vandalised by unidentified persons in the early hours of Thursday after he allegedly made demeaning remarks against Uddhav Thackeray at an election rally, police said.
A SpiceJet aircraft on its way to Kabul from New Delhi with 120 passengers on board was intercepted by Pakistan Air Force fighter jets which then escorted the airliner out of the country's airspace last month, sources in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said today. The incident took place on September 23.
Stressing on the need to rewrite history from India's point of view, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said had it not been for Veer Savarkar, the first war of Independence in 1857 would have been seen from Britain's point of view.
