The Congress-led Punjab government will start distributing free smartphones to the youth in the state, one of the key poll promises of the ruling party, from January 26. Free mobile phones to girl children Mobile phones would be distributed among girl students in class 11 and 12 of government schools in Punjab who do not […]
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On the third anniversary of Demonetisation, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the Modi government saying note ban had wrecked Indian economy. “3 years since Demonetisation and every claim made by the government and those hailing it as a slayer of all evils has been turned on its head. It proved to be a […]
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The Congress will hold nationwide protests against the Narendra Modi government over economic slowdown in the country from November 5 to November 15. “The party will raise issues surrounding the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), current economic crisis, mounting unemployment, spiralling price rise, bank frauds, job losses in public and private sectors, and farm distress,” […]
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Alka Lamba, who has been engaged in a bitter war of words with her adopted party AAP, on Saturday formally joined her parent party the Congress. She was welcomed into the party fold by Delhi unit in-charge PC Chacko and other leaders of the party at the Congress headquarters on Akbar road. A beaming Lamba […]
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The results of the 17th Lok Sabha elections are finally in: the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide victory, with a record 303 seats. Incredibly, the exit polls were spot on. Most importantly, it has cemented Narendra Modi as the pre-eminent political voice and BJP as the principal pole of Indian politics. To put […]
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After it won all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital by huge margins, the BJP on Thursday expressed confidence that it would wrest power in the city from the AAP in next year’s assembly elections. The BJP has been out of power in the city for more than 25 years. Its last victory […]
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IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman Elsewhere, Congress may be questioning the Balakot airstrike, but its government in Rajasthan has introduced it in Class IX social science textbook that students will be using from the academic session starting July. The highlighted text without any headline has been inserted in the chapter “Rashtriya suraksha evum shaurya parampara […]
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Phase 6 of the Lok Sabha Election 2019 is currently underway. Seven seats will go to the polls today including Delhi. There are 59 parliamentary seats up for grabs in this phase. The states polling today are Bihar (8 parliamentary constituencies), Haryana (10), Jharkhand (4), Madhya Pradesh (8), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (8) and […]
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Congress star campaigner Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday urged the voters in Indore in Madhya Pradesh to free the country from the rule of “Kale Angrez” (Black Britishers) and “chowkidars” as he took a jab at the ruling BJP. “Yeh Congress Mahatama Gandhi ki party hai, Maulana Azad ki party hai. Yeh Congress desh ko […]
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SP, BSP Formed Alliance for National Interest, But Congress Not Keen on Defeating BJP: Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said the Congress game plan was not to stop the BJP from forming the government at the Centre, but to come to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2022. He also said that […]
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