Tag: political

New Delhi —  In India, the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has triggered an outcry from opposition parties that accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of targeting the opposition weeks before the country heads into a national election. Protests by supporters of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, or ...

ISLAMABAD —  A rare suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, known as the Taliban’s political headquarters, killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen early Thursday. Taliban authorities said the victims had gathered outside the officially run New Kabul Bank to receive their salaries ...

JAMMU: As per the Supreme Court Order dated 13-04-2004 and Election Commission of India’s guidelines, all political advertisements by any registered political party or any group of organizations/associations or any contesting candidate/individual shall be pre-certified by Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) before telecast/broadcast on TV and cable network/cable ...

Srinagar: Political parties in Kashmir were disappointed that Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir are not being held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha election, saying a crucial democratic space is being “denied” to the people of the Union Territory by keeping the polls in a “deep freeze”. National Conference ...

Top billionaires and Corporates Houses including some lesser known entities were among the Donors' List who donated Multi-Million rupees to various political parties in India by purchasing the Electoral Bond Scheme now declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India. From steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to billionaire Sunil Bharti ...

Poll Body Says Decision On Holding LS, Assembly Elections Simultaneously After Reviewing Feedback Jammu: The Election Commission will decide on holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections together or separately in Jammu and Kashmir after reviewing the security situation and feedback from stakeholders, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said here ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan's jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party made a maiden contact with the coalition government led by Premier Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, in a first sign of political reconciliation between arch-rivals after the Feb. 8 general elections. Khan-backed chief minister of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Ali ...

Srinagar, Mar 12: The Election Commission on Tuesday began consultations with political parties in Jammu and Kashmir to review preparedness for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the Union territory.Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and other officials of the poll panel, who arrived here on ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. File. | Photo Credit: PTI GUWAHATIAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on March 10 said political parties may be de-registered if they call for a bandh against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) of 2019.The Act allows non-Muslims who fled alleged religious persecution in ...

On March 1, the online edition of The Hindu carried a report by Jagriti Chandra with this headline: “Jamnagar airport gets international status for Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding bash.” The text described how the small airport at Jamnagar, run by the armed forces, had been declared an “international airport” for ...