For months, Dera Sacha Sauda has been a target of hatred and violence because of the controversial attire and mannerisms that its chief Ram Rahim Singh adopted to emulate 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh. Over a dozen people died and an attempt was made on Ram Rahim’s life after clashes broke out between Sikhs and [...]
Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi may respond to the verdict by nudging the government to take measures which are demonstrably in line with her “aam aadmi” plank.
She has loved playing the opposition, making public exhortations and shooting off missives, which invariably get leaked, and there could be a lot more interventions from public exhortations on [...]
NDA’s performance in Punjab and Uttarakhand Assembly Election reflected public anger against the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre for its failure to check the steep price rise, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Tuesday.
“Apart from a mandate for change, the NDA’s performance in Punjab and Uttarakhand are indicative of public anger against [...]
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu Tuesday won the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat by-election, defeating his Congress rival Surinder Singla by over 77,600 votes.
The official announcement of the crucial parliamentary seat result was withheld as two electronic voting machines had malfunctioned. The final result, after counting of votes from the two machines, would be made available later.
Sidhu’s [...]
The NDA victory in Punjab and Uttarakhand has added to the worries of the Congress government in the State, coming on top of the defeat in local elections in Rajahmundry and poor showing in Visakhapatnam.
Local Congress leaders have agreed that the local elections showed a strong indication of the anti-incumbency mood among voters. The [...]
SAD president Parkash Singh Badal has convened an “urgent meeting” of newly elected SAD-BJP MLAs here on Wednesday.
Party general secretary Daljeet Singh Cheema said here this evening that the meeting has been convened “after the landslide victory of the alliance in the general elections.”
The meeting will be held in the Punjab Bhawan here [...]
Poor governance by the Amarinder Singh government and his failure to check corruption have been the chief causes for the defeat of the Congress in Punjab. Charges of corruption in the police department and the civil services had also adversely impacted the common man.
The fact that the chief minister was not easily accessible to the [...]
In stunning reverses in the Assembly elections, Congress was today voted out of power by the Akali Dal-BJP combine in Punjab and by the saffron party in Uttarakhand, while it emerged as the single largest party in a hung verdict in Manipur but is all set to retain power in a coalition there, reports.
While [...]
Three officials of the Chandigarh Police were booked today on charges of outraging modesty, house-trespass, wrongful confinement, defamation and criminal intimidation, on the complaint of Karnal resident Santosh Kumar, who was wrongly arrested and kept in jail by these men last year.
Chandigarh Police wrongly arrested Santosh Kumar and had allegedly outraged her modesty while [...]
Counting of votes in the assembly elections to Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur began today.
The counting for bypolls to Amritsar (Punjab) and Tehri (Uttarakhand) Lok Sabha seats also began simultaneously at 8 am.
in Punjab, where the ruling Congress and opposition Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine is locked in a bitterly fought battle, the fate of [...]