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BHOPAL: Congress released its first list of 144 candidates for the MP polls Sunday with a nod to numerology - at 9.09 am on the first day of Navratri, fielding 69 of its 96 sitting MLAs in a mix skewed towards youth. PCC chief Kamal Nath was among the nominees, 65 of them below 50. Rahul Gandhi calls ‘unemployment’ single biggest issue in IndiaBesides 19 women, there are six Muslim, 39 OBC, 30 ST...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Congress on Sunday launched the inaugural phase of its "Jawab Do-Hisab Do" campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, commencing with public meetings and a "Pratigya rally" held in Bawana. The primary objective of this rally was to solemnly commit to defeating all seven BJP MPs in Delhi during the 2024 general elections. Arvinder Singh Lovely, the Delhi Congress president,...

NEW DELHI: Hours after a social media post went viral purportedly showing his resignation letter from the Congress, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday accused the BJP of "indulging in fake works" and said he has reported the matter to the police."I have reported this to the police ... the BJP indulges in fake works. I entered Congress in 1971 and I will be with the party till my last breath,"...

Much attention will be lavished on caste and community voting intentions in these state polls, very little on boring stuff like agriculture. Yet in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana, farmers are key election influencers.The farm factor, at the base level, comes from the share of population that works in agriculture - 72.4% in MP, 70% in Chhattisgarh, 62% in Rajasthan and 60% in Telangana....

PATNA: Hailing the publication of the caste survey findings, CM Nitish Kumar on Monday said his government has called a meeting of all the nine political parties which have members in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, at 3.30 pm on Tuesday and share all the data and findings of the survey before them. The nine political parties are JD(U), RJD, BJP, Congress, CPI-ML, CPM, CPI, HAM(S) and the AIMIM."The report of...

NEW DELHI: Over 20 leaders and office-bearers from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Northeast Delhi have officially joined the Congress, and more are expected to follow suit in the coming days, according to party officials. The group includes former Delhi Congress secretaries Kuldeep Bhati and Yogendra Bhati, as well as block ex-president Mahendra Kumar, all of whom left the AAP to join the...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police arrested Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday morning at his Chandigarh residence in connection with a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, registered against him in Jalalabad of Fazilka district in 2015.Khaira’s arrest has the potential to strain relations between Congressand AAP, both constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc.The...

INDORE: Every door she approached in Ujjain slammed shut in the face of a child seeking help after being raped. Except the one before which she fell unconscious after walking 8km pleading for aid. The girl, only 12, semi-nude and bleeding from the attack, had gone door to door seeking help, only to be ignored, CCTV footage showed. She was found unconscious in front of an ashram in Badnagar area of...

NEW DELHI: A suggestion that Rahul Gandhi should not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Wayanad, where CPI is the principal opponent of Congress, has led to some consternation in both parties. While Congress has rejected such a push and said a decision will be taken later, CPI has asserted that this was merely an opinion voiced at an internal party forum and that no formal discussion has been held...

NEW DELHI: After Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday took a potshot at the new Parliament building and termed it "Modi Multiplex or Modi Marriot", BJP president JP Nadda hit back, saying the remark betrayed the party's "pathetic mindset".Calling Ramesh's statement on the new Parliament an "insult to Indians", Nadda said that "even by the lowest standards of the Congress, this is a pathetic...