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NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may not have opened the purse strings for poll-bound states in Union Budget 2026 but she made them a part of many ambitious development initiatives like the rare earth corridor, dedicated freight passage and the proposed high-speed rail networks.Assembly elections are scheduled in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam…
Union home minister Amit Shah addresses a public meeting in Assam on Friday. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of “changing” the poll-bound state’s demography, a “trend” he said the current BJP-led government at the Centre is working to “reverse.”Shah made the remarks at the closing ceremony…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister in a public address in Assam’s Dibrugarh launched scathing attacks at Congress and Rahul Gandhi. Accusing the LoP of disrespecting the state’s culture, the home minister blamed him for the violence and chaos in Assam.Addressing the public rally in poll-bound Assam, Shah said, “Rahul Gandhi (was the) only person during…
NEW DELHI: In his maiden address after taking over as BJP national president, Nitin Nabin on Tuesday asked party workers to mount a fight to “protect” the centres and legacy of Sanatan faith, saying political parties opposed to ‘deepam’ tradition in Madurai or existence of Ram Setu should have no space in politics.Nabin, whose elevation…
KOLKATA/MALDA: PM Narendra Modi brought up the issue of recurring violence in Bengal’s Murshidabad during his rally in neighbouring Malda district Saturday, specifying demographic imbalance and infiltration as the underlying causes.Murshidabad’s Beldanga continued to see vandalism as highways and railway tracks were blocked for the second day in protest against continuing violence against Bengalis in…
Assam is on a mission to empower women through self-employment, with the government allocating Rs 10,000 seed capital to over 1.5 million women via the MMUA initiative. This ambitious program aims to cultivate 4 million ‘Lakhpati Baideos’ in time for the upcoming elections, invigorating rural economies and fostering female entrepreneurship. Guwahati: The BJP-led govt in…
NEW DELHI: After pushing organisation cohesion and laying out BJP’s agenda in West Bengal, home minister Amit Shah will be in another poll-bound state Tamil Nadu for two days from Sunday to give shape to the party’s strategy, where it is a junior partner to AIADMK, but will have to play a key role in…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief electoral officer Archana Patnaik on Friday said the draft electoral roll, after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), for the state now includes 5,43,76,755 voters, comprising 2.66 crore women and 2.77 crore men.She said that prior to the SIR, the poll-bound state had around 6.41 crore registered voters, and the exercise…
Prime minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday brought up Operation Sindoor during a campaign rally in poll-bound Bihar, saying that India’s retaliatory strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir had left the Congress’ “first family” “sleepless” – a reference to the Gandhis. “Blasts were happening in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, but…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled a series of youth-centric initiatives worth over Rs 62,000 crore, with a special focus on poll-bound Bihar. PM launched the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) – a centrally sponsored scheme with an investment of Rs 60,000 crore.The scheme aims to modernise…
