Kolkata: Ahead of the Assembly elections, Kolkata Police have taken key steps to strengthen the city’s security apparatus. According to a directive issued by Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Nand on Wednesday, Additional Commissioner of Police (I) Devendra Prakash Singh has been given overall charge of the election cell of Kolkata Police. According to a…
(L-R): Rajeshree Shirwadkar, Alka Kerkar, Yogita Koli, Harshita Narwekar MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to take the Mumbai mayor’s post for the first time since the 1980s, with the party narrowing its choice to several women corporators. The post was reserved for a woman from the open category in a draw of…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP PC Mohan on Friday took a “rajmalai” jibe at Raj Thackeray as the party dominated the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other Maharashtra civic elections.PC Mohan, Lok Sabha MP from Bangalore Central, shared photos of ‘rasmalai’ (Indian sweet dish) on X and wrote: “Ordered some rasmalai. #BMCResults.”The tweet…
US President Donald Trump on Monday said Venezuela will not hold new elections within the next 30 days and that the country must first be stabilised following the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Speaking to NBC News, Trump insisted the United States is not at war with Venezuela, even as it deepens its involvement…
New Delhi: Ahead of a scheduled discussion in the Rajya Sabha, Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan reminded members of the constitutional and procedural boundaries governing parliamentary debate, particularly when it touches upon institutions of high authority. He underscored that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is an autonomous constitutional body under Article 324 of the Constitution, and…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Prime Minister and claimed that the Centre wanted the discussion on Vande Mataram in the Lok Sabha to serve its poll prospects in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal.During her address in the Lok Sabha, Priyanka said that there…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi dialled RJD neta Tejashwi Yadav for his feedback on Bihar results as the opposition alliance members “expressed collective disbelief” over the Patna landslide in favour of the BJP-JDU combine and targeted the Election Commission alleging questionable election processes. The party ordered an internal inquiry to analyse the election data…
This Kishor can’t sing: Bihar tunes out PKNEW DELHI: Prashant Kishor has often been credited for being the scriptwriter of the electoral successes of several political parties and satraps. His most anticipated script has, however, turned out to be a spectacular dud.When he started his public outreach in Bihar with a padyatra from Champaran three…
NEW DELHI: It may be the first time in three decades that RJD doesn’t have a single member in Rajya Sabha when the next Bihar assembly elections come around in 2030.The party now has five members in the upper house, but it will gradually lose these seats even if a non-NDA party – like AIMIM…
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…