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MGNREGA overhaul masks BJP's anti-poor agenda: Punjab finance minister Cheema

Chandigarh, Dec. 31 -- Finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday accused the central government of deliberately misleading the public under the guise of a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employm... Read More


BJP misleading people under guise of MGNREGA overhaul: Punjab finance minister

Chandigarh, Dec. 31 -- Finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday accused the central government of deliberately misleading the public under the guise of a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employm... Read More


A year of gains, political turbulence for Andhra

Hyderabad, Dec. 31 -- For the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government in Andhra Pradesh, headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, 2025 emerged as a year of both challenges and opportunities, ... Read More


SC to hear Telangana petition against Banakacharla on Jan 5

Hyderabad, Dec. 31 -- The Supreme Court will take up hearing on January 5 on the petition filed by the Telangana government challenging the Andhra Pradesh government's proposed construction of Polavar... Read More


S Jaishankar meets Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman, hands him PM Modi's condolence letter

India, Dec. 31 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who represented India at the funeral of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka, met her son and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (B... Read More


Deora flags digital signatures in rivals' nomination forms

India, Dec. 31 -- Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Milind Deora on Wednesday wrote to the state election commissioner, alleging procedural irregularities in filing Forms A and B (nomination letters to candida... Read More


How Shinde wrested 90 seats with a political headlock

India, Dec. 31 -- "Eknath Shinde is a political case study," says a senior Maharashtra BJP leader. He should know what he is talking about, having just emerged, somewhat bruised from Shinde's headlock... Read More


Panvel civic polls: BJP opens account; MVA mounts push in saffron stronghold

India, Dec. 31 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday opened its account in the Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections even before polling, with its candidate Nitin Jayaram Patil decla... Read More


'Sleeper cells in Congress are working against the party'

India, Dec. 31 -- It is for the first time that Prakash Ambedkar, 71, grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and chief of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), forged an alliance with Congress for the BMC elec... Read More


Tense scenes as poll hopefuls keep vigil at nomination centres

India, Dec. 31 -- After a nerve-wracking first round of tears, protests and desperate runs between party offices for nominations, those who survived braced for round two on Wednesday - scrutiny of the... Read More