Ahmedabad, May 9: The opposition Congress in Gujarat on Tuesday demanded registration of an FIR by the state police against Manikanta Rathod, a BJP candidate in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls, claiming he had threatened to kill party president Mallikarjun Kharge and his family. The Congress had on May 6 shared an audio purportedly of...
Kanpur/Banda, May 9: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday hit out at the Samajwadi Party, alleging those responsible for riots and curfews in Kanpur were its candidates in the urban local body polls. On the last day of campaigning for the second phase of the civic polls, Adityanath addressed public meetings in Kanpur, Banda...
Nagpur, May 9: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has admitted before a court in Nagpur that there had been an "inadvertent" mistake while collating information about pending criminal cases against him due to which two criminal matters were not mentioned in his election affidavit submitted in 2014. Fadnavis (52), in an explanatory statement submitted to...
Bengaluru, May 9: After a high voltage campaign, it is now time for the mega battle of ballots in Karnataka, with the state all set to elect its representatives to the 224-member Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. With the stakes being high in this election, the major political parties in contention - the BJP, Congress and JD(S)...
New Delhi, May 9: Stakes are high for the BJP and higher still for the Congress as people vote to elect a new government in Karnataka on Wednesday following an intense and often bitter campaign that saw the 'entry' of Lord Hanuman in the last leg of the electoral battle fought as much on...
Mumbai, May 9: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah while referring to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data as per which nearly 40,000 women went missing in Gujarat in five years. This has brought to light the "dark side" of the state,...
Bengaluru, May 9 (PTI) The battle-ready BJP with its well-oiled election machine ran its campaign with a blitzkrieg by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Assembly elections in Karnataka that votes on Wednesday. It was clear the double-engine Sarkar' sought to heavily bank on Modi's appeal to bolster its campaign, shore up its prospects and fight...
Bengaluru, May 6: Amid the ongoing controversy over banning Bajrang Dal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Saturday said in a tweet that a legal notice has been issued to AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge seeking Rs 100 crore for "defaming" Bajrang Dal and "hurting the sentiments" of the Hindus globally. The legal notice was sent by...
Bengaluru, May 6: An alleged statement by BJP candidate Manikanta Rathod of "wiping out" AICC President Mallikarjun Kahrge's family in a purported audio shared on social media, has been picked up by the Congress and labeled as an assassination plot. Reacting to it, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said, "The matter will be taken seriously...
Arsikere, May 5: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not have stooped to Rahul Gandhi's level by saying that voting for JDS is like voting for the Congress in the runup to Karnataka assembly elections. "Loose talks diminish his stature. He did what Rahul Gandhi had done...
