April 19, CPM leader VP Sivankutty filed a writ petition with the court, asking that the Election Commission be directed to take action against Pillai. Murali Purushothaman, counsel for the Election Commission, filed... Read more »
April 19, In a rally at Meerut on April 9, Yogi had said, “The Muslim League is a virus. If someone is affected by this virus, he cannot survive, and today’s main... Read more »
BY VISHAL GULATI Manali, April 19 (IANS) Accumulation of snow and extreme cold climatic conditions in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh is affecting arrangements for the May 19 Lok Sabha poll. But... Read more »
April 19, A new publication by a civil rights organization, Housing and Land Rights Network India (HLRN), “Forced Evictions in India in 2018: An Unabating National Crisis”, has discussed different dimensions of... Read more »
Badaun, April 18 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), saying they are scared of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and they caused... Read more »
Mainpuri, April 19 (IANS) Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati will share a stage at a joint rally of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri on... Read more »
April 18, On Monday April 15, the Election Commission barred Yogi Adityanath from campaigning for 72 hours starting 6 am on Tuesday. This was in wake of his highly communal remark about Ali... Read more »
April 18, On April 10, 2019, Prakash Lakda, a 50-year old Adivasi of Jurmu village of Gumla’s Dumri block, was lynched to death by a mob of men from the Sahu community... Read more »
By Rajiv Shah April 18, The Government of India’s (GoI) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, launched in 2016 in order to promote the use of clean cooking fuel to villagers by subsidizing liquid... Read more »
Lucknow, April 18 (IANS) BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday said it was impossible to hold free and fair Lok Sabha elections if Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept visiting temples and houses... Read more »
Mumbai (IANS) The contest seems wide open for the nine reserved Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra that are currently held by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena combine. Of the 23 assembly segments... Read more »
Lucknow, April 17 (IANS) The second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh will test the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) popularity and also see a shift in strategies by all parties. The eight seats... Read more »
Azamgarh, April 18 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday filed his nomination papers from Azamgarh. Akhilesh Yadav, who arrived here in the morning, reached... Read more »
Lucknow, April 18 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has alleged that the Election Commission was turning a blind eye to “blatant violation of the model code of conduct” by Uttar Pradesh... Read more »
Lucknow, April 18 (IANS) Kunwar Danish Ali, the BSP candidate from Amroha Lok Sabha seat, has alleged fake voting in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by people wearing burqa. He said... Read more »
Shimla, April 17 (IANS) Over 2.50 lakh voters of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday asked the two national parties — the BJP and the Congress — to come out with a... Read more »
Mumbai, April 17 (IANS) Ten of Maharashtra’s 48 Lok Sabha constituencies, including three reserved for Scheduled Castes, will go to the polls on Thursday. The Election Commission (EC) has made elaborate arrangements by... Read more »
By Shamsul Islam Today India has turned into a grazing field for all kinds of religious bigots led by the Hindutva gang. Even the Prime Minister of the country, who took oath... Read more »
Edited by well-known Gujarat Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan, the book, “Bhed-Bharat: An Account of Injustice and Atrocities on Dalits and Adivasis (2014-18)” (available in English and Gujarati*) is a selection of... Read more »
As many as 30 villages in Jharkhand’s Khunti district have declared that they will not vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections scheduled in the area in the fifth phase on May... Read more »