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On a two-day visit to the Valley, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday evening met members of different communities and a group of BJP leaders in Srinagar. Sources said Shah asked the BJP leaders to start preparing for the Assembly elections, saying the party will contest all the ...

A former Indian Army officer Colonel (Retd) Waibhav Anil Kale was killed after his vehicle came under fire in conflict-ridden Rafah. He was travelling along with another United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS) staffer to the European Hospital in Rafah when their UN vehicle was struck on ...

The Mumbai North-Central constituency, consisting of a multi-religious and cultural population ranging from slum dwellers to film stars, will witness a battle between first-time Lok Sabha candidates fielded by the two rival national parties, BJP and Congress.Congress has nominated its Mumbai unit chief, Varsha Gaikwad, while the BJP has ...

This is a very unique election since 1947 because post-August 5, 2019 (the day Article 370 was abrogated), this will be the first election. There has been no Assembly for the last six years. At a macro level, the only three elected representatives from Kashmir, who were in Parliament, ...

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday accused the Jammu and Kashmir administration of trying to “fix” the Lok Sabha elections by “selectively targeting and harassing” her party and its supporters. Similar allegations were made by the National Conference and the CPI(M). Mufti also accused the BJP-led Centre of creating a ...

Taking a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for repeating the same scripts in the past 10 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Congress will not be able to be the “Opposition party” as their numbers will reduce to below 50 on June 4.Addressing a rally ...

Ten years ago, BJP’s Subrat Pathak lost to Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav from Kannauj by over 19,000 votes. Five years later in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he contested again from Kannauj and defeated Dimple by over 12,000. This time, as he is seeking reelection from Kannauj, he is ...

Pakistan’s army on Thursday condemned the violent protests by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters last year, vowing that it would not allow its “executors” to get away with their violent acts. On May 9 last year, violent protests erupted after the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan by paramilitary ...

Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.The extraordinary order, which includes confiscating broadcast equipment, preventing the broadcast ...

Swapna Patkar, a witness in the Enforcement Directorate’s money laundering probe into the Patra Chawl redevelopment case involving Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, on Saturday wrote to Deputy Chairperson of the Legislative Council Neelam Gore, alleging that Raut is harassing her and her family. In the letter, Patkar ...