NEW DELHI: Responding to Congress‘ Facebook post pointing to the difference between 7.42 crore voters cited in EC’s Oct 6 press note announcing Bihar polls dated and the 7.45 crore electorate cited in its post-poll press statement dated Oct 11, the Election Commission on Saturday clarified that the gap was on account of the nearly…
Farooq Abdullah (File photo) NEW DELHI: Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) chief Farooq Abdullah addressed India-Pakistan relations on Saturday in light of the blast at Nowgam Police Station which was after the explosion near Red Fort in Delhi. He made claims on Operation Sindoor “again” and India-Pakistan relations.The Nowgam incident resulted in nine casualties,…
AAP’s “Rojgar Do–Samajik Nyay Do” padyatra enters its fourth day in UP The Aam Aadmi Party’s “Rojgar Do–Samajik Nyay Do” padyatra entered its fourth day in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, covering the stretch from Koorebhar to Katka in Sultanpur.The march, led by AAP UP in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, drew participation from the…
Prashant Kishor during padyatra NEW DELHI: The strategist who had previously scripted victories for BJP and JD(U) scored a duck in his debut match in the Bihar elections. The chatter on the ground and even in the newsrooms around Jan Suraaj had never been this dismal until the exit polls capped the alliance at a…
Rohini Acharya and Lalu Prasad Yadav (File photo) NEW DELHI: In a cryptic social media post declaring that she is “disowning” her family, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya named two individuals — Sanjay Yadav and Rameez — saying she had been merely doing what they had asked her to,…
Al-Falah University (ANI image) NEW DELHI: The Delhi Crime Branch on Saturday registered two FIRs against Al-Falah University over serious allegations of cheating and forgery. A team from the Delhi Crime Branch visited the university’s office in Okhla today. Delhi Police has also issued a notice to the institution, demanding a set of documents as…
Image: LinkedIn@/daerogroup It started, improbably, with a message most of us would have ignored. Buried among the usual LinkedIn noise of job updates and pitches was a note from a teenager in Mumbai to a Stanford grad student he had never met. Neither knew it then, but that small act of digital courage would set…
NEW DELHI: Millions of citizens going online will have guaranteed control over their digital data while social media companies such as Facebook and Instagram will need verifiable parental consent before onboarding children, or those under 18 years, with the govt finally notifying rules to operationalise the digital personal data protection (DPDP) law that was originally…
NEW DELHI: Alinagar, a constituency in Bihar’s Darbhanga, was catapulted into limelight when BJP decided to field Maithili Thakur, a popular young folk singer, as its candidate. The high-profile candidature immediately ignited resistance from the grassroots, with old party faithfuls threatening to contest as rebels and jeopardise PM Narendra Modi’s experiment of bringing the young…
Pune: Former leader of opposition and Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar on Friday said BJP had deliberately brought out the Mundhwa land deal issue to push its Mahayuti partner, NCP chief Ajit Pawar, on the backfoot before the civic polls.Wadettiwar said, “Ajit Pawar-led NCP has been defamed in the Mundhwa land deal issue and it is…
