Doomsday narrative versus reality in 2024 elections

Both the fiscal deficit as well as...

2024 Elections: BJP Cannot Afford to be Complacent

Opinion polls can go wrong and the...

Rakesh Ranjan

Multiple reasons behind BJP’s drubbing in Delhi

New Delhi: Not the provocative speeches by leaders like Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Verma, but the disconnect of its local councillors and MPs with...

‘BJP confident of winning 45-50 seats in Delhi’

NEW DELHI: The average voters’ turnout in Delhi Assembly polls has given jitters to the BJP leadership, but the party, riding on Hindu polarisation...

BJP’s star campaigners to woo Poorvanchalis in Delhi

The final list of star campaigners is likely to be released next week.   New Delhi: Top Bhojpuri stars and Union ministers and MPs from Poorvanchal...

Transformational reforms can turn around Air India: Lohani

New Delhi: Faced with a daunting task of sustaining the cash-strapped national carrier Air India, Ashwani Lohani, its Chairman cum Managing Director, believes that...

We stand with our craftspeople: Gadkari

In a major push for the Indian handloom, handicrafts and rural industry, the Narendra Modi-led government has rolled out a slew of initiatives to...

Centre goes all out to woo foreign students to India

NEW DELHI: With India going big on its “soft power” in the international arena, it plans to widen its ambit beyond Yoga and art...

Delhi BJP eyes new members to increase vote share

BJP leaders believe that an increase of nearly 5% votes would make a big difference.   New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party, eyeing to stage a...

Delhi BJP steps up campaign ahead of Assembly elections

New Delhi: Stepping on the gas for the upcoming Assembly polls, the election in-charges of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party and Union ministers Prakash Javadekar,...

BJP state contenders to stay away from key party positions

The party has told its state unit leaders to choose between organisation and electoral politics so as to provide every worker in the party...

BJP set for organisational polls from next month

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari has confirmed that organisational polls in the Delhi unit will be completed by 30 November.   New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata...

Delhi BJP preparing for early Assembly polls

‘Public mood is in favour of the BJP, particularly after scrapping of Article 370’.   New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership in Delhi has...

Jharkhand to get multi-modal terminal

The poll-bound state of Jharkhand is all set for a major infrastructure boost with the commissioning of the multi-modal terminal at river Ganga in...

Digital highway toll fees to make driving faster

Those entering the toll lanes and paying in non-digital ways will have to pay double the money.     New Delhi: Come December, your drive along the...

Dhoni may take the political plunge soon

New Delhi: He might not be in the best of his form in the ongoing cricket World Cup, but former Indian cricket captain Mahendra...

Railways to see major restructuring exercise

Performance of officers, not their seniority, will determine appointments to top posts.   New Delhi: Mere seniority would no longer guarantee top posts for Indian Railway...

Delhi BJP eyes adding 14 lakh new members

The BJP’s vote share in Delhi has remained between 30-35% in the last two decades.   New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi has...

BJP plans outreach in weak Delhi constituencies

Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari is leading the campaign in villages and slums.   New Delhi: If there is one big hurdle in the way of...

Centre expedites big-ticket rail infra projects

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal wants railway modernisation work to be carried out on a priority basis.   Ne w Delhi: Faced with the 2022 deadline, the...

BJP preparing for early Assembly polls in Delhi

The polls, scheduled for February 2020, could be rescheduled to Oct-Nov this year.   New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has begun preparations for early Assembly...

BJP won’t offer any freebies to Delhi voters

The party will contest the polls on the plank of the Centre’s good governance.   While the announcement of free rides to women in Delhi Metro...

BJP eyes better prospects in Delhi Assembly elections

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) stupendous victory on seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi with over 56% votes has raised great hopes...

‘Better Congress show in Delhi will help BJP’

The BJP is expecting a divide in the common vote bank of Congress and AAP.   New Delhi: While the national capital saw moderate voter turnout...

My fight is to ensure no Hindu devout is branded a terrorist: Pragya

New Delhi: Unfazed by the stiff opposition to her nomination as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from the Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency, Sadhvi Pragya...

MP is missing its Mama: Shivraj Chouhan

MP is missing ITS Mama: Shivraj Chouhan   Bhopal: Having served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for three consecutive terms, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader...

Smriti giving Rahul a tough fight in Amethi

Amethi: Having remained a Congress bastion for nearly five decades, the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh has turned into a sticky wicket...

BJP accuses aap of betraying delhi

New Delhi: As campaigning intensifies for the 12 May Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the Aam Aadmi...

PM’s Jal Marg Vikas Project draws global attention

New Delhi: While the Narendra Modi government’s Clean Ganga mission grabbed eyeballs in India and abroad during the Kumbh Mela, another of its key...

‘Lucknow voters in mood to vote for BJP’

Lucknow: One major infrastructure push that the city of Lucknow has got in the last five years is the arrival of the Metro rail...

BJP’s political blitz clearly missing in Rae Bareli

There are no mega road shows in Rae Bareli which was never the case earlier.   Rae Bareli: It is considered India’s most high-profile parliamentary constituency...

BJP report finds 70% of Mamata’s promises unfulfilled

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party tries to make inroads into West Bengal and Kerala, it has mobilised its grassroots workers to highlight...

BJP’s social media warriors take the fight to cyberspace

New Delhi: Their day begins early morning around 5 am that goes on till 11 pm in the night. Unlike their friends in swanky...

‘BJP implemented most promises made in 2014 manifesto’

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has successfully implemented all its promises made in its 2014 election manifesto, except those that needed constitutional amendments...

BJP’s Sankalp Patra pleases traders in Delhi

New Delhi: With key poll promises of pension for small shopkeepers and setting up of the National Traders Commission, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

Gambhir’s entry triggers row over New Delhi seat

New Delhi: The entry of former cricketer Gautam Gambhir in the poll fray has made the fight tough in the Bharatiya Janata Party for...

BJP to corner AAP over sealing, illegal colonies

The BJP, on the back foot until now, has firmed up a plan to take on AAP.   New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is...

BJP candidates for Delhi seats post Holi

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi may be announced soon after Holi, BJP insiders have...

‘People covered by PM Jan Arogya Yojana taking healthcare seriously’

New Delhi: Sixty-year-old Jumma, a construction worker in Haryana’s Jhajjar, is recuperating after a heart surgery at a high-end private hospital in Gurugram. Jumma...

Withdrawal of security cover will have little impact

Narcotics and extortion are the major sources of funding for the separatist groups of Kashmir.   NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to remove security...

Report on Delhi BJP MPs soon

Sitharaman held review meetings in 3 constituencies to assess poll preparedness.   NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha poll in-charge for Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nirmala Sitharaman...

Modi government races far ahead of UPA in railway modernisation

Pace of electrification and renewal of rail lines touched an all-time high.   New Delhi: The Indian Railways’ network has witnessed tremendous growth in the five-year...

Varanasi will be first city with zero discharge of pollutants into Ganga

NEW DELHI: The holy city of Varanasi, also the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is all set to become the first city...

BJP eyes millennial voters

As per strategy, party workers will be roping in students supporting its ideology.   New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) kickstarts its campaign for...

ICCR working to dispel wrong notions about India: Sahasrabuddhe

ICCR faces challenge of protecting India’s  image, to stop it from being labelled as a ‘rape country’.   NEW DELHI: Having completed one year at the...

BJP upbeat on 10% EWAS quota

NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party is confident of reaping the political benefits of providing 10% quota to the economically weaker sections (EWS) of...

300 National Highway projects on the anvil

New Delhi: Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Narendra Modi-led government is all set to roll out nearly 300 National Highway projects in...

Modi readies Basic Income game changer for 2019

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Nripendra Mishra has convened several meetings to work out details of the scheme in such a manner that...

BJP explores Poorvanchali-Baniya mix

According to Vijay Goel, exploring new political equations is crucial for the BJP to win the 2019 elections.   NEW DELHI: As the Bharatiya Janata Party...

BJP goes back to basics, starts energising booth workers

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party is going back to the basics after being defeated in the Assembly elections of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and...

Centre readies plan to reach out to farmers

NEW DELHI: Displeased over the Narendra Modi government’s “failure” to address their issues, farmers may upset the Bharatiya Janata Party’s applecart in the forthcoming...

BJP on course correction mode after poll defeats

All state units have been asked to reach out to voters through booth level workers.   New Delhi: Having suffered a severe blow from the defeats...

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