May 28, 2024, at 03:09 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has explained the reason behind opting for actress-turned politician Saayoni Ghosh as the Trinamool Congress candidate from the Jadavpur constituency, which was won by Tollywood star Mimi Chakraborty five years ago, for the Lok Sabha polls.
BJP candidate Pranat Tudu attacked in Bengal's Jhargram in 6th phase of Lok Sabha polls
May 26, 2024, at 12:50 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from West Bengal's Jhargram was attacked by a violent mob in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, media reports said.
Take care of your country: Arvind Kejriwal snubs Pakistan leader's post on Lok Sabha polls
May 25, 2024, at 08:17 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has snubbed Pakistani politician Chaudhry Fawad Hussain's X post on Lok Sabha elections asking him to "take care" of his country.
Lok Sabha polls: Sonia-Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra cast votes in Delhi
May 25, 2024, at 04:33 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress top leaders, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra cast their votes in Delhi as the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls are underway on Saturday.
Voting is underway in sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls
May 25, 2024, at 02:36 pm
Indian voters lined up outside polling booths from as early as 7 am to exercise their franchise in the sixth and penultimate round of the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
Delhi, Haryana vote today in penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections
May 25, 2024, at 07:29 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Voting in 58 seats across seven states and one Union Territory-Delhi will take place Saturday in the sixth and penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha election.
Mamata Banerjee says 'I am in INDIA alliance, it's coming to power'
May 24, 2024, at 05:34 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated that she will continue to be in the INDIA alliance, which the Trinamool Congress supremo claims is coming to power ousting the Modi government.
May 24, 2024, at 04:09 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has responded to Congress's Mani Shankar Ayiar's remark that India should respect Pakistan owing to its nuclear bomb and said he visited Lahore and checked its power.
'Surrender or face my anger': HD Deve Gowda's stern warning to grandson Prajwal Revanna
May 24, 2024, at 01:51 am
Bengaluru/IBNS: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has issued a stern warning to his grandson Prajwal Revanna, accused of sexual assault by several women, asking him to "surrender or face the anger of his family."
May 24, 2024, at 01:15 am
Nandigram (West Bengal): Ahead of the sixth and penultimate phase of polling for the Lok Sabha election in West Bengal on May 25, reports of violence have emerged from East Medinipur district's Nandigram, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that its several workers were attacked by members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) last night, media reported.
EC slams BJP, Congress over poll speeches; says 'electoral democracy should not be weakened'
May 23, 2024, at 02:29 am
New Delhi/IBNS: With five phases of the Lok Sabha election over, the Election Commission Wednesday slammed both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the main Opposition Congress over poll speeches by its star campaigners.
May 22, 2024, at 08:19 pm
Patna/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday suspended Bhojpuri actor Pawan Singh for contesting as an Independent candidate from Bihar's Karakat Lok Sabha constituency, media reports said.
May 21, 2024, at 08:08 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has barred Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s candidate from Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal, former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Ganguly, from campaigning for 24 hours, media reports said.
Afraid of a riot: Mithun Chakraborty on Mamata Banerjee's attack on Kartik Maharaj
May 21, 2024, at 07:29 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty on Tuesday expressed his fear of a "riot" triggered by the scathing remarks by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Kartik Maharaj, a monk from charitable organisation Bharat Sevashram Sangha.
INDIA alliance set to win over 300 seats in Lok Sabha elections: Arvind Kejriwal
May 21, 2024, at 05:15 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday echoed other opposition party leaders' voice claiming INDIA, the anti-BJP front, is set to win over 300 seats.
Downfall certain: Rahul Gandhi slamming Sambit Patra's 'Lord Jagannath is Modi's Bhakt' remark
May 21, 2024, at 04:08 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi has slammed BJP's Lok Sabha poll candidate from Odisha's Puri for calling Lord Jagannath "Bhakt" or a devotee of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sambit Patra triggers row calling Lord Jagannath 'Modi bhakt', later clarifies as 'slip of tongue'
May 21, 2024, at 06:54 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sambit Patra landed in a controversy Monday over a comment that hugely offended Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
May 21, 2024, at 03:58 am
Polling in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 across 49 constituencies recorded an approximate voter turnout of 57.47 percent that sealed the fates of many key leaders Monday including Union Minister Smriti Irani and top party leaders Rahul Gandhi, Chirag Paswan and Omar Abdullah.
May 20, 2024, at 07:36 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday repeated her attacks on Kartik Maharaj, a monk in charitable organisation Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whom she accused of acting against the ruling TMC during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
May 20, 2024, at 06:19 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A confrontation between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Hooghly candidate in West Bengal, Locket Chatterjee, and a person claiming to be polling agent broke out on Monday.
Varanasi: Buddhist monk praises PM Modi's 'unprecedented' work for Buddhism
May 19, 2024, at 10:49 pm
Varanasi: Buddhist monks in Varanasi blessed and praised Prime Minister Modi, referring to him as a "Buddhist patron," news agency ANI reported.
Citizens join Election Commission to check electoral malpractices, enforce clean polling
May 19, 2024, at 07:28 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: In the Lok Sabha polls 2024, the cVIGIL app of Election Commission of India has emerged as a highly effective tool in the hands of people to flag election code violations.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav wants probe agencies ED, CBI shut if INDIA bloc comes to power: Report
May 19, 2024, at 05:11 am
New Delhi: Departments like the Enforcement Directorate and CBI are unnecessary and should be shut down, according to Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, reported Indian Express.
May 18, 2024, at 07:43 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has said his colleague Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will be axed if he doesn't follow the high command's decision, in response to the party's alliance with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress.
PM Modi taunts Akhilesh Yadav over Mamata Banerjee's 'outside support to INDIA' announcement
May 17, 2024, at 07:07 pm
Lucknow/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a potshot at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement of giving an outside support to the INDIA bloc.
May 17, 2024, at 04:56 am
A day after Mamata Banerjee announced support for the INDIA bloc from outside to form a government at the Centre, the Bengal Chief Minister Thursday said she is very much a part of the alliance, which was 'her brainchild' and that she was the one to give it a name.
I will take revenge: Mamata Banerjee recounting her 'Nandigram defeat'
May 16, 2024, at 08:24 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Despite the Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s landslide victory in the 2021 assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was defeated by BJP's Suvendu Adhikari by close to 2,000 votes.
See you in the battleground: Modi dares Opposition to abolish CAA
May 16, 2024, at 06:12 pm
Lucknow/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dared the rainbow alliance of opposition parties to abolish the controversial CAA, which was enacted by the Union Home Minister earlier this year.
May 16, 2024, at 05:12 pm
Lucknow/IBNS: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday reiterated his claims that BJP's supreme leader Narendra Modi won't continue as the Prime Minister after he turns 75 and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be replaced, a day after his similar statement was snubbed by the party's top brass.
'I have a bad news for him': Amit Shah on Arvind Kejriwal's 'Modi will retire' claim
May 15, 2024, at 11:44 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has strongly rebutted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's claim that BJP's supreme leader Narendra Modi won't continue as the Prime Minister till 2029.