In December 2006, the Bharatiya Janata Party held its national council meeting in Lucknow. This ended up being the last party conclave that Atal Bihari Vajpayee attended. The former prime minister’s valedictory address thus became immortal as a lesson for the future. Vajpayee had said, “The situation in Uttar Pradesh is a challenge and we must […]
Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump will outline on Thursday a plan to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favour applicants who speak English, are well-educated and have job offers, senior administration officials said. Trump’s immigration proposal, the product largely of senior advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller and economic aide Kevin […]
One hundred and ninety-nine years after his birth, Bengal’s Renaissance icon Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar has become a poll plank in the eastern state. And the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has quickly used the vandalism in a Kolkata college named after him to reach out to unusual quarters: the Left’s educated, middle-class vote bank. The […]
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress on Tuesday sought a meeting with the Election Commission a day after its party workers fought pitched battles on the streets of Kolkata with BJP supporters during a massive road show of party chief Amit Shah, who escaped unhurt but was forced to cut short the jamboree and had to […]
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress on Tuesday sought a meeting with the Election Commission a day after its party workers fought pitched battles on the streets of Kolkata with BJP supporters during a massive road show of party chief Amit Shah, who escaped unhurt but was forced to cut short the jamboree and had to […]
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress on Tuesday sought a meeting with the Election Commission a day after its party workers fought pitched battles on the streets of Kolkata with BJP supporters during a massive road show of party chief Amit Shah, who escaped unhurt but was forced to cut short the jamboree and had to […]
Editor’s note: This article, originally published in Firstpost Print on 4 May, is being republished in view of Mayawati’s recent personal attack against the prime minister Narendra Modi. It provides the context for understanding what this election means for Mayawati and why she is tuning up the rhetoric in the last leg of a long election. *** It was […]
The Left parties are willing to provide outside support to any alternative coalition to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre. But they are in a fix about the possibility of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress becoming a part of such an arrangement, according to a member of the Communist […]
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With just around 30 percent of the electorate left to vote in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Phase 6 of polling is scheduled for Sunday, 12 May, in 59 parliamentary constituencies across six states and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Representational image. PTI A few constituencies in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West […]
