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…
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…
In Bihar’s political theatre, irony has always been the opening act, and Nitish Kumar, the master of reinvention, once again turned contradiction into victory.With the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) sweeping the assembly elections by surging past the half-way mark, one wonders what could have been the X-factor that made the people of one of the…
The National Democratic Allaince (NDA) seems set to secure a historic win in Bihar with trends showing it is well on its way to secure a whopping 208 seats in the 243-seat assembly. The 2025 polls unfolded against the backdrop of a meticulously crafted campaign focused on stability, development, and inclusivity, where the NDA’s narrative…
As trends in the Bihar assembly election results emerge, NDA alliance has taken decisive leads across the state with Mahagathbandhan trailing. However, one name that is notably absent from the numbers is Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj. Despite promises to reshape Bihar’s political landscape, the results so far show no significant traction for the party.According to…
Candidates from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Indian National Congress (INC), and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (HAM(S)) are locked in a close fight for Bihar’s Sikandra (SC) Assembly seat as counting approaches. The contest between Uday Narain Choudhary (RJD), Vinod Kumar Chaudhary (INC), and sitting MLA Prafull Manjhi (HAM-S) is shaping up as one of…
NEW DELHI: Bettiah, one of Bihar’s 243 Assembly constituencies, is located in the West Champaran district and is currently held by the BJP.In the 2025 elections, Congress has fielded Washi Ahmad to take on incumbent MLA and BJP leader Renu Devi, while Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj has entered the fray with Anil Kumar Singh as…
NEW DELHI: In a significant escalation of its probe into the alleged diversion of around Rs 14,600 crore collected from thousands of homebuyers of Jaypee Wish Town in Noida and other projects, ED on Thursday arrested Manoj Gaur, former chairman and CEO of Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) and ex-MD of Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL).A special…
Doctors at Delhi govt’s Lok Nayak Hospital (LNJP) confirmed the death of Bilal (35), who, according to police, lived near Jama Masjid. However, some sources said that he was a resident of Kangan in Ganderbal, Jammu & Kashmir.Among the most severely injured victims brought to the hospital after the explosion, Bilal suffered an abdominal-penetrating injury…
SRINAGAR: Expanding its crackdown on ‘white-collar terror’, J&K Police’s Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) on Thursday carried out searches at 13 locations across the Valley in connection with the ongoing probe into the Delhi blast case. A police officer confirmed the raids, but did not reveal if anyone was detained.In a related development, State Investigation Agency (SIA)…
