What some of our politicians were up to on Wednesday, September 25, 2024.
Vinesh Phogat is reportedly weighing a potential leap into politics.
Diwali festivities with Bollywood stars and their little ones continue in full swing.
Earlier, Reetika displayed power and skill in equal measure while outclassing Hungarian Bernadett Nagy to enter the quarter-final of the women's 76 kg freestyle event on Saturday.
Bhavani Rajput picked up 11 points in a superb performance as UP Yoddhas beat table toppers Haryana Steelers 31-24 to keep their play-off hopes alive in the Pro Kabaddi League in Pune on Tuesday.
An exasperated Justice Chandrachud asserted he will not allow any lawyer to "dictate" the procedure of the court.
Haryana is witnessing a multi-cornered contest this time, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party facing anti-incumbency and a resurgent Congress.
'Thanks to Chhaava's success, I now have the creative freedom to pick and choose.'
The case is understood to be related to the alleged irregularities in land allotment in 2009, sources said.
'There is some deep rot that has set in the Congress party. This requires an organisational surgery.'
'The training started with guns, knife fights...'
Polling for the 90 seats of the Haryana assembly will take place on Saturday, October 5, 2024.
The 14-year-old Unnati pipped Malvika 24-22, 24-22 in a nail-biting 50-minute semifinal clash
"I owe it to Veer Savarkar, to his spirit, to his legacy and to his untold story so that I tell it well and it reaches people, and people absorb it and feel what he went through and all the sacrifices that he made, which have been brushed under the carpet."
The Congress top brass headed by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge held a review meeting on Thursday on the party's shock defeat in the Haryana assembly polls and discussed the possible reasons for the 'unexpected' results.
Fifties by skipper Shreyas Iyer and veteran Ajinkya Rahane carried Mumbai to a five-wicket win over Maharashtra in a Group C match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Following is India's schedule of Day 15 of competitions at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Senior Congress leaders from Haryana have asked for the resignation of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda before the assembly elections in the state slated to be held by October this year.
'It's absolutely a crime.' 'You cannot threaten a woman on social media or anywhere else.'
The Congress on Thursday came out with a list of six anti-terror surgical strikes carried out during the United Progressive Alliance rule.
As the Bharatiya Janata Party looks set to retain Haryana, the Congress' poll campaign, which was built around various issues including unemployment, farmers' plight and Agnipath scheme, appeared to have failed to click with a majority of the voters.
The top court took note of the submissions of some aspirants that a question related to an "atom" and its characteristics had two correct answers and a set of examinees, who gave one particular answer out of the two correct ones, were awarded four marks.
All about IPL 2025 which kicks off on March 22, Saturday.
Rising Indian shuttler Malvika Bansod continued her impressive form this year, pulling off a stunning upset against world No. 23 Sung Shuo Yun of Chinese Taipei to advance to the women's singles pre-quarterfinals of the Arctic Open Super 500 tournament on Tuesday.
Hooda, who as the chief minister was the ex officio chairman of the Haryana Urban Development Authority, has been accused of illegally transferring land to Associated Journals Ltd, which published the newspaper, at Panchkula in 2005.
The BJP has fielded as many as 10 turncoats, including those who joined the party from the JJP in recent weeks.
The mixed doubles pair of Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath lost 12-21, 15-21 to the Chinese combine of Cheng Xing and Zhang Chi.
Haryana is now in the same bracket as Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh where the BJP is the centre-point of politics.
Film folk looked gorgeous as they stepped out on the red carpet of the Mid-Day Showbiz Icons Awards, 2024.
Results for assembly polls in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir were declared on Tuesday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party scoring a hat-trick in Haryana while the National Conference-Congress alliance emerged victorious in J-K. Here's how some big names fared.
'It is evident that the BJP govt in Haryana no longer commands a majority,' former Deputy Chief Minister and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala said in his letter to the governor on Wednesday.
The case pertains to alleged corruption in Manesar land deals worth over Rs 1,500 crore, in which around 200 farmers were cheated.
The talks between two sides have been stuck over the number of seats to be contested by AAP, with the party demanding 10 seats and the Congress offering 5, party sources said.
Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki has sought response from Bhupinder Singh Hooda government on the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for cancellation of recent controversial appointments by the chief minister.
'Every Haryana assembly seat has its own unique problems to earn victory for a political party and you as a politician need to know what are those issues and tackle it.'
"Now how much should it have been politicised, whether it is right or wrong is something that should be asked to politicians," he said.
'Congress leaders are ready to lose the election and not form the government, but are never ready to share seats with others.'
Bucking anti-incumbency, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party pulled off a hat-trick of wins in Haryana to retain power and halt Congress' comeback attempt in the assembly elections, results of which were announced on Tuesday.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (women's doubles) and B Sumeeth Reddy and N Sikki Reddy (mixed doubles) suffered three-game defeats in their opening contests.
The voter turnout recorded in the 2019 assembly polls was around 68 per cent.
