Tag: Upa

New Delhi: UPA’s Vice presidential candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi met BJD MPs at Bhartruhari Mahtab’s residence here and thanked the regional party for its support ahead of the poll scheduled for August 5. MPs Baijayant Panda, Tathagat Satpathy, Prasanna Patasani, Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh, Anubhav Mohanty, Pratap Deb, Pinaki Mishra and others were present to meet Gandhi. […]

Bhubaneswar: Questioning BJD’s support to BJP nominee Ram Nath Kovind for President, the party MP Bhartruhari Mahatab on Sunday said Naveen Patnaik should have waited till UPA’s declaration of its candidate. In his editorial ‘President Election- Dalit vs Dalit’, Mahatab once again rattled the BJD and expressed displeasure over the party’s decision to support Kovind. […]

Bhubaneswar: Stating the charges framed by the Special CBI court against him in the Brahmadihi coal block allotment case today as an outcome of political vendetta by the Congress-led UPA government, Rourkela BJP legislator Dilip Ray stated he has complete faith in the country’s legal system and urged for a speedy trial in the court. […]

New Delhi: Railway and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday asserted that the BJP would return to power with over 300 seats in the next year 2019 Lok Sabha elections and that the NDA would secure a two-thirds majority in the Lok sabha. Interacting at the 16th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here, Goyal said, “The […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday alleged that BJP President Amit Shah lied on the deportation of foreigners and demanded his apology, claiming that the UPA government had deported 82,728 Bangladeshi foreigners during 2005-2013, while the count was only 1,822 in the last four years of the Narendra Modi government and also noted that NRC […]

New Delhi: Congress leader and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said that all sections of the society were suffering with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and all promises made by the BJP before the 2014 elections have turned out to be hollow. “It is sad to see that our society is suffering from unprecedented […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he wanted to build a strong and vibrant party with the help of all delegates as he opened the two day plenary session here. This is the 84th plenary session of the grand old party that the 47-year-old Gandhi took over as chief in December 2017. […]

New Delhi: The NDA government on Thursday sought to distance itself from the financial fraud done by jeweller Nirav Modi, blaming the previous Congress-led UPA regime for influencing loans that became non-performing assets (NPAs) while asserting that the guilty will not be spared. Addressing a press conference, Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said […]

New Delhi: The much-awaited judgment in the alleged multi-thousand crore rupees 2G spectrum scandal will be delivered by a special court here on December 21. Special Judge OP Saini, who has been hearing two separate cases related to 2G spectrum allocation, said, “I have perused the files (related to the case) and will pronounce judgment […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday rejected former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s charge that demonetisation was “organised loot” and said there was an ethical and moral rationale behind the decision which gave a “new direction” to the economy. Defending the government’s decision to demonetise high value currency notes last year as “historic” Jaitley […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the previous UPA government of having been indifferent towards Gujarat including over sanctioning of development projects. Laying foundation stones for a four-lane signature bridge linking Okhla with Bet Dwarka and the widening of a national highway, Modi recalled the difficulties Gujarat faced when the Congress-led UPA […]

New Delhi: In a riposte to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday said he won’t watch silently when the Indian economy was facing “cheerharan” — like Bhishma when Draupadi was disrobed in the Mahabharata. Replying to Modi’s speech on Wednesday in which he compared his critics to Shalya, the demoralising […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday blamed the Congress regime during Manmohan Singh’s prime ministership to have derailed India’s economy and also for the abnormal rise in fuel prices. He alleged India’s economy nosedived during the previous government leading to a huge debt burden. Pradhan also attributed the current rise in fuel prices […]

LPG consumers across the country will from tomorrow get cash subsidy directly into their bank accounts so that they buy the cooking fuel at market price

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Popularity of BJD is on the wane as CVoter Tracker’s latest ‘State of the Nation’ survey revealed that the ruling-party in Odisha could relinquish major ground if Lok Sabha elections are held today. On the national front, the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (MGB) between Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh could […]