Politics

Akhilesh Yadav will be canvassing for votes for BSP candidate Afzal Ansari, who was once denied permission to merge his party, Qaumi Ekta Dal, with the SP.

The government accommodations in Kasturba Nagar, which comes under the New Delhi parliamentary constituency, were redeveloped and residents of the area were shifted to other areas.

Stating that the Congress did not want to discuss the country’s defence policy, Modi said it was due to the grand old party’s faulty policies that terrorism and Maoism had spread its wings and killed thousands here.

The Prime Minister’s remarks came after two terrorists were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian in an encounter on Sunday morning.

This is the third phase of polling in MP, the first and second phases for six and seven seats, respectively, having been held on April 29 and May 6.

A senior Congress leader said Dikshit tweeted about the matter after learning that volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party were telling voters in northeast Delhi that she is unable to actively take part in campaigning because of her health.

BJP president Amit Shah said that several Congress governments at the Centre did little to go after those behind the communal violence and added that they were punished by the Modi government.

Nandigram and Singur were considered to be the pillars that laid the foundation of Mamata Banerjee led TMC government in 2011.

To ensure free and fair polling in Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram (ST), Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura and Bishnupur (SC) constituencies, the EC will deploy a total of 770 companies of central forces.

Addressing his first rally in Punjab for the Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi tore into the opposition party over its leader Sam Pitroda's remark on the 1984 ant-Sikh riots.

Congress Leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra questioned why farmer grievances were not heard by the Prime Minister and saying that BJP Govt. Bailed out industrialists.

Congress's east UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi is geared up for a hectic day on Friday with rallies scheduled in UP's Jaunpur, Pratapgarh and Sultanpur.

The FIR was registered after the chief judicial magistrate of Leh directed police on Wednesday to launch a probe into the matter.

Unfazed by two losses in the past, Hina Shahab says her first task if she were elected would be to generate employment for the youth of Siwan.

The BJP leader who had stirred a controversy by asking Muslims to vote for her as they will need her once the Lok Sabha elections are over said her remarks were taken out of context.

The joint opposition is likely to waste no time and will rush to President Ram Nath Kovind as soon as the election result is declared to ask him to invite them first to form the government.