Campaigning for 91 LS seats going to polls on Apr 11 ends
New Delhi: High-decibel campaigning for 91 Lok Sabha constituencies in 18 states and two Union Territories going to polls on April 11 ended Tuesday, with rivals plunging headlong into the hurly burly of electioneering and engaging in no holds barred attacks. The Lok Sabha polls will be held in seven-phases for 543 seats on April […]
Militants in Pak frightened after Balakot strikes: PM
Chitradurga (Karna): Asserting a strong government at the Centre was imperative for a strong India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said the Balakot air strikes have created a fear among the militants and those in power in Pakistan were getting nightmares. Addressing an election rally here, Modi attacked the ruling Congress-JDS combine in Karnataka saying […]
CPI (M) knocks EC’s door
New Delhi: The CPI (M) wrote to the Election Commission on Tuesday alleging violation of the poll panel’s directive after Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Maharashtra asked first-time voters to dedicate their votes to the brave men who carried out the air strike in Pakistan’s Balakot. In the letter, the party’s politburo […]
Elderly man, minor killed, three injured in car mishap
Bhaderwah: A 70-year-old man and a girl were killed and three others critically injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district Tuesday, police said. The five family members were on way to their home in Kishtwar when their car rolled down a hill […]
BJP formed govt with separatists in JK, says NCP
Mumbai: The NCP Tuesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he targeted its chief Sharad Pawar for “standing with” the National Conference which recently advocated a separate ‘Wazir-e-Azam’ (Prime Minister) for Jammu and Kashmir. NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik said National Conference has never talked about contesting polls with separatists and has fought […]
CPI (M) appeals to Jammu electorate to vote for secular candidates
Jammu: The CPI (M) Tuesday appealed to the people of Jammu to exercise their franchise in favour of the secular dispensation led by the Congress. The Jammu and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies will go to polls in the first phase of the five-phased elections in the state on April 11. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), […]
Book those uttering anti-national remarks during campaigns: BJP leader
Poonch: Reminding the top NC leadership that former chief minister Sheikh Abdullah was jailed for anti national remarks in 1953, a BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday said those raising “similar anti-national remarks” should be booked under sedition and banned from contesting polls. Two-time minister Sham Lal Sharma, who recently resigned from the Congress […]
