Politics

BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri alleged that Delhi is facing the crisis because the AAP government 'failed' to take timely steps to control COVID-19.

Fourteen people, including senior officials, have been arrested in Malawi and Labour Minister Ken Kandodo has been sacked over misuse of COVID19 funds, President Lazarus Chakwera and police said on Sunday.

Mamata Banerjee demanded that BJP leaders who are accused of making vitriolic statements be banned from campaigning by EC.

The fight for Sitalkuchi is intense as TMC won it in 2011 and 2016, and maintained a lead here in the 2019 national polls even when BJP swept all LS seats in North Bengal.

Questioning the version that central forces fired on voters "in self-defence", Banerjee said her government will initiate a CID probe into the incident.

He has been asked to respond to the notice within 24 hours.

Mexico's Senate majority leader said on Thursday lawmakers may postpone the debate on a landmark bill that would decriminalize cannabis, a potential setback to creating one of the world's largest markets for the plant.

The BJP leader posted on social media a video in which he was seen showing two stones to the officer on duty and blaming the TMC for the alleged incident.

Mamata Banerjee claimed BJP activists were forcibly occupying polling booths and attacking TMC members, including party candidates, and asserted that she would not get bogged down by such "intimidatory tactics".

The UP police arrived in Punjab in the wee hours on Tuesday to take Ansari into custody. He is lodged Punjab’s Ropar jail. An ambulance also arrived at Rupnagar police station to take him to Banda. He will be reportedly shifted to Banda jail by Wednesday...

A loss in the state, where Gandhi has led from the front, will bolster the voices of dissent. A win will strengthen those wanting to see him as the Congress president again.

Shah who reached Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh on Monday paid homage to the martyred jawans at the police line first. Bodies of 14 jawans were kept there wrapped in tricolour.

The 40 seats that are going to polls on Tuesday are spread across 16 election districts are located in Lower Assam and the Bodoland Territorial Region. In the region, the Congress has been able to maintain its tally at 11 in the last three elections.

"There is a wholesale capture of the institutional framework of this country and absolute financial and media dominance.", Gandhi said

He alleged that the BJP only means one thing "blackmailing opponents, jeopardizing democracy and plundering".

Key candidates contesting in the 2021 Assembly elections from Hosur constituency are: S. Jyothi B Reddy of AIADMK, Y. Prakash of DMK, M. Maare Gaudu of AMMK, Masood of MNM, Geetha Lakshmi of NTK