YSR Congress Party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday said people’s welfare is hallmark of YSRCP politics, and called for a change in the present political system.
“We need to change this system and bring in value based politics. We play the politics of people welfare unlike others who come during elections and drift away after polls never to be seen till the next elections,” said Jagan while campaigning here today.
A court here today awarded life imprisonment to a man for raping and murdering a minor girl.
Rewari District and Sessions judge Jagdeep Jain sentenced Pradeep to imprisonment for life. The court on April 21 held him guilty of raping and then strangling to death a 5-year-old girl of Thathetra Colony here on February 4.
The verdict has been pronounced by the sessions court in a time of less than three months.
The judge also sentenced Pradeep’s brother Kuldeep and Kuldeep’s associate Manish to imprisonment for four months, holding them guilty of concealing the truth from police.
Former Member of Parliament (MP) Shahid Siddiqui on Monday said he not only condemns what the National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah”s threat to secede from India if Narendra Modi gets elected as prime minister, but also, is scared about such statements being aired in the public domain. “I not only condemn what Farooq Abdullah has said, but I am also scared.
Hours after Congress released a CD purportedly showing Narendra Modi in pictures with hawala accused Afroz Fatta, BJP hit back by coming out with pictures showing the same man with Congress MP Md Azharuddin.
BJP legislator Harsh R Sanghavi brought out a picture showing Fatta with cricketer-turned-politician Azharuddin and questioned Congress on it.
“Afroz Phatta with Congressi Leader @azhrudeen will Congress answer what’s there connection with him?,” Sanghavi tweeted.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said the party would persist raising the issue of land dealings, which involves Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. Vadra has denied the allegations leveled against him of improper dealings with DLF.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday described Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as a ”specimen”, who does not have knowledge about Gujarat. “If you want to relieve your stress, then listen to Rahul”s speeches.
Pakistan today said there is “unanimous consensus” that the dialogue process with the Taliban should have a concise agenda and talks should take place under well defined parameters.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today reviewed the overall security situation at a meeting attended by Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi and ISI chief Lt Gen Zaheer-ul-Islam among others.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that the country was reeling under inflation and price rise due to wrong economic policies and misrule of Congress-led UPA Government. Gadkari criticized Congress party and its alliance United Progressive Alliance (UPA), saying they had created a world record in corruption.
A 28-year-old teacher who claimed she was gang raped by four persons on premises of a government school here, today said she had counterfeited the story to save her rape accused paramour.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Pankaj Choudhary said investigations revealed that the woman was in a relationship with one Mahaveer Meena, who had been accused by the wife of one of the falsely accused persons Dayaram Meena in another rape case.
Appealing to the people to vote for a leader who can give them a clean and transparent governance, YS Vijayamma has said that YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will carry forward the legacy of his father, YSR, and balance welfare and development. “We have seen governments before and after YSR that have been very taxing while YSR has given a very soothing touch through his welfare schemes without imposing any fresh taxes.
Launching a scathing attack on Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, BJP today said her comments against Narendra Modi showed she has lost her “mental balance” and was increasingly getting worried about the Modi wave in her state.
Party’s in-charge of West Bengal Sidharth Nath Singh said her comments that the country will be “ruined” and plunge into darkness if Modi comes to power was also a reflection of the fact that TMC has “lost the plot” in the state.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) urged the Election Commission (EC) on Monday to take steps for free and fair polls in the district, where they alleged that the YSR Congress dominates with muscle power, sources said.
Kadapa district TDP MP Ramesh Naidu and contesting candidate from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency R Srinivasula Reddy have urged the Election Commission to do so in a representation to the EC.
Sources said that the TDP had doubts about the polling pattern in Jammulamadugu and Pulivendula assembly constituencies.
Keeping up the attack on Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged it would be a ‘nightmarish’ if the Gujarat Chief Minister became the PM and accused the media of giving such a projection.
“We are staring at a nightmarish dream as the person is being projected by you (media) as the PM of the country.
The Goa government Monday launched an investigation into the mysterious death of a large number of clams, a well-known seafood delicacy, in a river near the capital.
The investigation was launched after reports in media about the strange phenomenon of deaths of clams in Velim village, around 50 km south of here.
The state’s fish-loving population is already reeling under high prices on account of severe shortage in fish catch over the last few months.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday called Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as a ‘saviour’ and urged people to vote for him to save the country from what he alleged ” the anarchic and anti-Hindu rule of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi”.
Addressing a news conference here, Baba Ramdev said that Modi”s win is certain and the result of the ongoing general elections on May 16 is just a formality. “Today the country is going through a period of political and financial chaos. And only Modi can save us from this political turmoil,” said Baba Ramdev.
Taking on National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah who said those voting for Narendra Modi should “jump into the sea”, the BJP prime ministerial candidate hit back, blaming Abdullah and his family for the exodus of Pandits from the Kashmir Valley.
Jumping into the fray, Abdullah’s son and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah defended his father saying his family did not need a lesson in secularism from Modi.
Taking on National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah who said those voting for Narendra Modi should “jump into the sea”, the BJP prime ministerial candidate hit back, blaming Abdullah and his family for the exodus of Pandits from the Kashmir Valley.
Jumping into the fray, Abdullah’s son and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah defended his father saying his family did not need a lesson in secularism from Modi.
Two men have been arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a five-year-old boy whose body was found April 25, police said Monday. One of the accused is the child’s uncle.
Amit Gupta, the child’s 30-year-old paternal uncle, and his 28-year-old partner Rehman abducted the child, Vasu, from outside his house in east Delhi’s Brahmpuri area on the evening of April 24.
The boy before leaving home had reportedly informed his mother that he was going to meet Gupta to collect a gift.
Voting time in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency has been reduced by an hour, an election commission official said here Monday.
Voting will now start at 7 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. as was the schedule in Anantnag, Udhampur and Jammu where balloting has already taken place.
“Voting time has been reduced by one hour for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat where polls are scheduled to be held Wednesday,” a poll official told IANS here.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court Monday rejected a plea of yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Swabhiman Trust to permit it to hold “yog shivirs” (yoga camps) in Kangra and Chamba towns.
A division bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice D.C. Chaudhary said the orders passed by the Karnataka High Court and the Gujarat High Court were of no help to the petitioner as these were passed prior to registration of a first information report (FIR) against Ramdev.
The Supreme Court Monday extended its March 15 interim order staying execution of the death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta – two of the four convicts in Dec 16, 2012, Delhi gang rape case – and directed the matter be listed in July’s second week for final hearing.
A bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice J. Chelameswar asked the Delhi government to place before it all the records in the case including that of the trial court along with their English translation.
An Indian-origin man, who is running for a local election in Britain’s West London next month, was suspended by the British Labour party as its candidate after it was found that he was embroiled in a court case.
Cranford ward candidate Gurpal Virdi, who is a former Metropolitan police officer from Hounslow, has been accused of indecently assaulting a 16-year-old boy between Sep 30 and Dec 31 in 1986 and has been summoned to appear before the Westminster Magistrate’s Court May 30, Get West London website reported Monday.
All eyes were on the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat as campaigning ended on all 13 seats in Punjab Monday evening. Polling in the state will be held Wednesday.
Nearly 1.96 crore eligible voters will decide the fate of 253 candidates who are in the fray this time. The main contest is between the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance and the Congress. The presence of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is likely to make the contest three-cornered on some seats.
Gold prices ended steady on the domestic bullion market today due to muted demand from jewellery stockists and traders at prevailing levels despite firm overseas sentiment.
However, silver remained under selling pressure from speculators as well as reduced offtake from industrial users.
Silver (.999 fineness) dropped by Rs 180 to conclude at Rs 43,625 per kg from last Saturday’s closing level of Rs 43,805.
Standard gold (99.5 purity) and pure gold (99.9 purity) both closed at their weekend level of Rs 30,155 and Rs 30,305 per 10 grams, respectively.
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has appealed to voters of Lucknow to support party president Rajnath Singh in the Lok Sabha election, saying that both of them together “will take forward the work done” by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In his address to the people of Lucknow released by the Bharatiya Janata Party Monday, Modi said that he wanted to himself come and meet people of Lucknow in the “karambhumi (land of work)” of Vajpayee but he was touring the country.