21 per cent candidates in 4th phase of LS polls have criminal cases: ADR

21 per cent candidates in 4th phase of LS polls have criminal cases: ADR

Sunday, 05 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Out of the 1,710 candidates contesting in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, 21 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves and 24 candidates have declared zero assets, as per the Association for Democratic Reforms(ADR) report. The ADR and The National Election Watch analysed the self-sworn affidavits of...

BJP takes dig at Rahul

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi/ Hukkeri (Karnataka)/Rohtak

The BJP on Friday took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he filed nomination to contest from Raebareli with Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying he will lose the polls against the BJP candidate by a huge margin. Mocking Rahul Gandhi as someone who runs away from the battlefield,...

Congress attacked Constitution by inserting word secular in Preamble: BJP

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Congress has been against providing reservation to the Dalits and the backwards and the party also “attacked” the Constitution by inserting the word ‘secular’ in the Preamble when it was in power, the BJP alleged on Friday. The BJP’s charge comes at a time when the Congress has been claiming...

TMC MP escapes chopper crash

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

Trinamool Congress MP and Bengali superstar Dev alias Dipak Adhikari had on Friday a narrow escape when the helicopter that he was travelling in suddenly developed snags and smoke started coming out of it mid-air. Dev who was campaigning for his party had gone to Ratua in Malda from where he...

Hindus class II citizens in Didi Bengal: Modi

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Burdwan/Durgapur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invoked Hindutva in Bengal alleging how during the Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress raj the condition of the Hindus had dwindled to that of second class citizens “all for the sake of pursuing its appeasement politics.” The immediate reference of the Prime Minister was an alleged...

Infant thrown to death in Kochi within three hours of birth

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Kumar Chellappan | KOCHI

For the people of Kochi, Saturday May 3, 2024 will remain as an unforgettable and dreadful day for decades to come. The city woke up to the news that an infant, born hardly three hours ago was thrown out of a high rise residential apartment in the uptown Panampilli Nagar...

I wanted to part ways with uncle in 2004: Ajit

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | T N RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai

As the ongoing electoral battle between the members of the Pawar family intensified in Baramati Lok Sabha constituency, breakaway nephew and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar of the NCP on Friday fired a fresh salvo at NCP chief and family patriarch Sharad Pawar, by revealing that he wanted to part...

Ladakh Lok Sabha seat to witness multi corner contest

Saturday, 04 May 2024 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

The cold desert region of Ladakh is set to witness a multi-corner contest with the entry of heavyweight rebel candidates in the fray on the last date of filing the nomination papers. Two prominent leaders including Haji Hanifa Jan and social activist Sajjad Kargili filed their nomination papers as Independent candidates...

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