MEJA (ALLAHABAD): “Nostalgia is good, till I go to vote,” says a villager in Pandeypur village in Meja constituency of Allahabad. He doesn’t want to be named but he is assertive, “Congress’s fortunes are on the up, but not because of the Nehru family’s legacy in Uttar Pradesh.” A Pandit…
LUCKNOW: UP’s three Naxal-affected districts, Sonbhadra, Chandauli and Mirzapur, limping out of the shadow of the menace have again slipped into decay. Though no major Naxal activity has been reported rom the region after the 2004 Naugarh landmine blast, the rash of initial ‘development ‘ has come to a standstill.…
RANCHI: Two former Bihar chief ministers and Jagannath Mishra appeared in a CBI court in Ranchi to record their statements in a case related to the multi-million rupee fodder scam in which funds meant for buying cattle feed were embezzled in undivided Bihar. Lalu Prasad arrived under heavy security cover…
NEW DELHI: Controversial Pakistani actress Veena Malik has denied allegation of spying for the ISI, Delhi Police told a court here which had asked it to look into a complaint seeking lodging of an FIR against her after her alleged nude photographs appeared in an Indian magazine. This was stated…
BANGALORE: Faced with its ministers and lawmakers getting involved in various scandals in Karnataka, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to give them lessons in morality and discipline later this month. “We will hold ‘chintan-manthan’ (brain storming session) in Bangalore Feb 24 and 25,” state BJP chief K.S. Eswarappa…
BHUBANESWAR: At least 24 people died in Odisha after consuming spurious liquor laced with medicines, authorities said. The victims from Cuttack and Khordha districts fell ill after taking the drink that officials said contained drugs used to treat cough and cold and to dress wounds. District collector SN Girish said…
LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party is a dalit-based party but its track record in reserved constituencies has been poor in comparison to other parties in all previous elections barring the 2007 assembly poll. Sample this: In 1993, out of total 88 assembly seats reserved for dalits, BJP grabbed 33, BSP…
WASHINGTON: Foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai met secretary of state Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings at the State Department and the White House on a range of bilateral, regional and global issues. On his first bilateral visit to the US as the foreign secretary, Mathai is understood to…
AHMEDABAD: The Narendra Modi government was pulled up by the Gujarat high court for “inaction and negligence” on its part during the 2002 post-Godhra riots that led to large-scale destruction of religious structures. A division bench of acting chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala made these observations,…
AMETHI: Congress’ star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi will return to Amethi tomorrow to campaign in her brother Rahul Gandhi’s Parliamentary constituency. On the campaign trail in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka is scheduled to address about 20 meetings tomorrow starting from Rasulpur area in Salon constituency, Congress media in-charge Jagdish Piyush said.…
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