Politics

The blame game between Kumar and Gadkari started in January this year when the Union minister blamed the Bihar government for not being able to acquire land for speedy execution of road projects.

Speaking to media on Thursday, N Mahesh said, “I am still a part of the JDS-Congress coalition government in Karnataka. Nobody has asked me to quit. I will do whatever my leader Mayawati says.”

Janata Dal (United) would contest the coming election to the 40-member Mizoram legislature to be held by the later part of this year, Secretary General and spokesperson of the JD(U) K C Tyagi said on Thursday.

Nalapad is out on bail and this is the second time he was spotted at a Congress event in Bengaluru.

In a hard-hitting retort to Pakistan, Swaraj had said India has made many efforts to hold talks with Islamabad and the only reason New Delhi has called off dialogue is because of Pakistan's behaviour.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the arrest of five rights activists by the Maharashtra Police in connection with the case and declined to appoint a SIT to probe their arrest.

UN peacekeeping missions are facing allegations of sexual abuse in African countries. In 2017, Guterres had launched a campaign to prevent and end sexual exploitation by UN personnel.

Amit Shah tagged the Congress president in his tweet which also attached a news story on Pawar's comments.

The Election Commission order states model code of conduct would kick in immediately after the dissolution of the state Assembly and would apply till the completion of polls.

The Jammu and Kashmir government said it will provide security to all candidates who request for it and also facilitate their campaigning.

"The comment reportedly made by Gandhi through the media is baseless, devoid of fact and unfortunate, coming from an SPG protectee," the ministry said in a statement.

The Congress won 331 of the 354 zila (district) parishad seats, while the Shiromani Akali Dal got 18, Bharatiya Janata Party secured two and the Aam Aadmi Party none, the State Election Commission said.

The Congress alleged that there had been a marked quantitative increase in ceasefire violations, deaths of security personnel, civilian killings, and terror incidents in J&K since the BJP came to power at the Centre and in the state.

State education minister Partha Chatterjee held the businessmen at Bagri Market responsible for the incident, saying it was unfortunate that the traders forgot about the security aspect while setting up businesses.

Ravi Shankar Prasad said that former defence minister A K Antony has a lot to answer for keeping the public-sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which was to be offset partner of the French maker of Rafale jets, in the lurch despite being in office...

NITI Aayog Adviser Alok Kumar has pointed out errors in the data quoted by Akhilesh Yadav about the zero utilisation of funds under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana in UP.