With Odisha likely to see a heat wave in the days to come, the state government has directed schools, both public and private, to conduct morning classes from April 2.
Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will get over 300 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, while the Congress will be restricted to 60.
The BJP on Saturday cited the rise in Congress president Rahul Gandhi's income between 2004 and 2014 to question its source, claiming he had no ostensible source of income.
Accusing the Congress of passing off forged and fabricated photocopies as BS Yeddyurappa's diary, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said falsehood and forgeries cannot influence polls as voters are wiser than politicians.
Edited by Swati Bhasin | Sunday March 24, 2019, New Delhi
Hours after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced that Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will contest from Bihar's Patna Sahib in national elections instead of the sitting lawmaker, Shatrughan Sinha,he warned the party on Saturday and said he can "answer back in the same coin".
A lookalike of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the BJP's central office in New Delhi and expressed his best wishes for the party members for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress on Saturday night released its eighth list of 38 candidates for the upcoming parliamentary polls with its leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge being renominated from Karnataka's Gulbarga. The party has nominated former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan to fight the polls from Nanded.
Denying firebrand leader Himanta Biswa Sarma a Lok Sabha ticket is not the only surprise to be pulled by the BJP in Assam this election season. The party, which is eyeing maximum gain from the state in the upcoming polls, has dropped five of its seven sitting parliamentarians in an attempt to counter anti-incumbency.
The Income Tax Department on Saturday dismissed as a "forgery document" and a "set of loose papers", the ''Yeddyurappa diary'' about alleged bribe payment to top BJP brass.
The ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition BJP, who are ready to battle it out in the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, are preferring turncoats over their tried and tested leaders.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti will be the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate from the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency but the party has decided not to field any candidates for Jammu and Udhampur seats in an effort to prevent a division of "secular votes".
Singer and dancer from Haryana Sapna Chaudhary joined the Congress on Saturday. Ms Chaudhary joined the Congress at the home of party's Uttar Pradesh unit chief Raj Babbar in New Delhi, sources said.
The Lok Janshakti Party, an NDA ally, on Saturday dismissed the SP-BSP tie-up in Uttar Pradesh as opportunistic and challenged Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati to declare a Muslim as the chief ministerial candidate in the assembly polls there.
Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil was conspicuously absent on Saturday when the Congress and NCP announced firming up of opposition's alliance in Maharashtra.
