- Friday, April 04, 2025
THE men contesting India's general election are vying for women voters but the paltry number of female candidates shows the battle women face in Indian politics - as in so much else in Indian life. When not trading barbs, India's prime minister Narendra Modi and his political rival Rahul Gandhi…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi fired up a big, raucous rally in a hot Delhi late Wednesday (8) as India's almost seven-week election approaches its conclusion later this month. "When work is done with good intentions, it also yields results. Inflation used to be on a rise, it is now under…
INDIA'S top court on Thursday (9) threw out a petition seeking to bar Rahul Gandhi from contesting the ongoing general election over claims he is secretly British. The 48-year-old scion of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty is the main challenger to prime minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking a second term…
A SMALL indigenous party is hoping to break India's political mould by taking on bigger parties in the current general election, pledging to protect land and forest rights, and create a new state for tribal people. The Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP), founded in 2017 by indigenous leader Chhotubhai Vasava, won…
SEVERAL posts that have been circulating across social media and WhatsApp containing incorrect information about the change in the law about organ donation have resulted in big spikes in opt-outs, said the NHS Blood and Transplant. These messages, which claim that all residents in the UK are now automatically on…
THE DMK has indicated its party chief MK Stalin may not meet K Chandrasekar Rao on May 13, as announced by the Telangana chief minister's office earlier. Sources close to the DMK president only said Stalin was 'busy' with his campaign schedule for the May 19 by-polls to four constituencies…
TAIWAN will strengthen ties with India's new government, including more official visits, a top official of the self-ruled island said today (8), despite China's continuing efforts to isolate what it considers to be a wayward province. Taiwan, an island 110 miles (177 kilometres) off the Chinese mainland, is trying to…
SEVERAL dozen employees of India's highest court gathered Wednesday (8) to express support for the chief justice, days after an in-house inquiry cleared him of sexually assaulting a former staffer. On Monday (6) a three-judge panel, one of whom was a woman concluded that accusations against 64-year-old Ranjan Gogoi had…
CONGRESS president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday (8) tendered an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing to the apex court the 'chowkidar chor hai' remark in the Rafale verdict. He also sought closure of the criminal contempt proceedings against him on a petition filed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi.…
AFTER seeking entry into the Guinness Book of World Records, poll authorities in Telangana have now approached the Indian School of Business (ISB) here to develop a case study for students in supply chain management, based on the conduct of elections in Nizamabad parliamentary constituency. As many as 185 candidates…
