Politics

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Senior BJP leader Tarun Vijay says he has deactivated his Twitter account, “sacked the person handling his tweets” and filed a complaint with the police after a bizarre set of posts had him supporting Congress president Rahul Gandhi and appearing to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I have deactivated it (Twitter account). This can be a plot. ...

Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who himself once had publicly called himself a devotee of Lord Shiva, left for Kailash Mansarovar Yatra today. Rahul Gandhi will travel to Kailash Mansarovar via China. When Rahul Gandhi was leaving for the trip, his mother and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was present at her residence. It is being told that Rahul Gandhi will first ...

A complaint was filed against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in a court here today seeking registration of a defamation case against him for allegedly tarnishing and lowering the image of the country. The complaint was filed by advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Prasad here, which fixed September 4 as the date for hearing ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he dreams of every family having a home of its own by 2022, when the nation will celebrate 75 years of independence. The homes built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana are of high quality and nobody had to pay a single rupee bribe, he said addressing a gathering at Jujwa village in Gujarat’s ...

Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh alleged yesterday that over 17 lakh fake voters were found during a scrutiny of electoral rolls across 53 assembly constituencies in the state. The state Congress also submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission today, urging it to remove the names of these voters from the electoral rolls. Shobha Oza, chairperson of MP Congress’s media ...

Somnath Chatterjee is no more. The former Lok Sabha Speaker and expelled member of the CPM died around 8 am today at a hospital in Kolkata. He had been in and out of hospital since June-end after suffering a stroke. Chatterjee had celebrated his 89th birthday on July 29. Lok Sabha Speaker from 2004 to 2009, Chatterjee was a member ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today accused the Centre and Lt Governor Anil Baijal for not taking effective steps to curb crime against women. His remark comes in the wake of the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl at a NDMC-run school here. Blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Baijal for rise in such crimes, ...

The Madras High Court today allowed the burial of DMK chief M Karunanidhi on the Marina Beach. A division bench of the court comprising Acting Chief Justice H G Ramesh and S S Sundar passed the order on a petition filed by the DMK at a special hearing. Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party had moved the court last night after ...

The UP Public Works Department and the State Property Department have completed the investigation of the losses made by the state’s former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav while vacating the government bungalow. The notice can be sent to him for the compensation. In connection with the previous government bungalow of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, the ...

A Delhi court today summoned RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav and others as accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam. Special Judge Arvind Kumar directed them to appear before the court on August 31 in a case related to alleged irregularities in granting operational contract of two IRCTC ...