NEW DELHI: PM Modi Saturday made his first comments on the govt’s move to implement the women’s reservation law from the next Lok Sabha polls, as he asked women to put pressure on the opposition to ensure related bills are passed in Parliament unopposed, while rejecting as a lie the charge that southern states will […]
=KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Olympic bronze medallist and multiple Grand Slam doubles champion Leander Paes crossed over to the BJP on Tuesday, exiting the Trinamool Congress after a brief stint.At BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Paes, 52, framed the move as a new “responsibility” after four decades in sport. “I have played for the country… I wish […]
Through the winter of 2025, all the news coming out from the Bharatiya Janata Party organisation was about the long-delayed election of a new party president. That season ended in the last week of December, when the BJP brass announced Bihar minister and five-time MLA Nitin Nabin would replace J.P. Nadda. According to party bylaws, […]
NEW DELHI: Jayalalithaa’s long-time aide and expelled from AIADMK, VK Sasikala on Friday announced the name of her new political party — All India Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munetra Kazhagam — and said its symbol will be a “coconut tree farm”, as the political ground heats up in poll-bound Tamil Nadu, where multiple stakeholders are eyeing […]
Overseas Friends of BJP UK has written a letter to the High Commissioner of India in London expressing serious concern over the disturbance reported during the Holi / Holika Dahan celebration in Harrow on 3 March 2026. In Harrow, a brawl broke out between Muslim youths and Hindus at a Holika Dahan celebration after three […]
NEW DEHI: “Congress will suffer,” cautioned Community Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA Baby on the party’s decision to not fight the West Bengal assembly polls in alliance with the Left. The Congress leadership should have explored possibilities with the Left to bolster the fight to keep BJP-RSS out, he said. The Congress and […]
Om Birla meets Tarique Rahman DHAKA: BNP’s landslide win in the Feb 12 parliamentary elections set in motion the end of Muhammad Yunus’s role as chief adviser.PM Modi was invited to Tarique Rahman’s swearing-in ceremony in Dhaka but could not attend as he had a bilateral with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai, a meeting […]
TOI Correspondent from London: UK communications industry regulator Ofcom said on Friday it has revoked both broadcasting licences of an Indian community TV channel run by Overseas Friends of BJP (UK) president Kuldeep Shekhawat.Both licences were held by Middlesex Broadcasting Corporation Limited (MBCL) for MATV National and MATV Music.MATV National is a satellite television service […]
Former VP Hamid Ansari (ANI image) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday strongly criticised former Vice President Hamid Ansari over his remarks describing Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire Mahmud of Ghazni as an Indian. The party accused him of distorting history and attempting to “whitewash” the brutal invasions of India.Ansari, who served […]
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged a political conspiracy behind the death of Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash on Wednesday morning. She demanded a Supreme Court-supervised probe, accusing all “other agencies” of being “compromised”.The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief said that there were reported talks that Pawar […]
