03 February 2026
New Delhi: Samajwadi Partypresident AkhileshYadav has said he would like to contest next year's general elections from Kannauj constituency, presently held by his wife Dimple Yadav.
"I will like to contest from Kannauj," he told reporters in Lucknowafter paying tribute to veteran socialist leader Janeshwar Mishra on his death anniversary.
Replying to a question, AkhileshYadav said 'netaji' Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest the polls from Mainpuri.
New Delhi: In the United States, thousands of federal workers will be unable to report for work on Monday, as efforts to reach a compromise ahead of the working week failed yesterday. The failure to agree on a deal means many federal employees will be furloughed on unpaid leave until the stalemate is resolved. However, essential federal services and military activity are continuing.
The shutdown began at midnight on Friday, when lawmakers failed to agree on an extension to federal funding. The Senate set a vote for midday today on advancing a measure to provide temporary government funding through February 8.
New Delhi: The RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat has said India had stopped considering Pakistan an enemy, but Pakistan had failed to do the same in its approach towards India.
RSS held one of its largest congregations at the Khanapara Veterinary College field in Guwahati, with 50,000 people turning up to listen Mohan Bhagwat's address.
Bhagwat said "Mohenjodaro and Harappa civilizations are now in Pakistan. They are part of Bharat, which Pakistan does not want to acknowledge. Pakistan is a separate country because it did not want to accept Hindutva," Bhagwat said.
New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary SitaramYechury has blamed the BJP for practising "double standards" and said the party that projects itself as a nationalist force across the country had joined hands with "extremist organisations" in poll-bound Tripura.
The saffron party will face defeat at the hands of the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Assembly elections in Tripura will be BJP's "Waterloo", he claimed.
The CPI(M) leader also said that the BJP was trying to unite anti-Left forces in the state to win the polls.
New Delhi: Ahead of presentation of union budget 2018-19 in the Parliament, anASSOCHAM-EY joint paper has noted that nearly 4% of India's GDP is estimated to have been lost due to malnutrition as women and children deserve a better deal in expenditure outlay.
Quoting data from the National Family Health Survey-4, the ASSOCHAM-EY paper noted with concern that close to 60% of our children aged between 6 - 59 months are anaemic. It is only about 10% of the country's total children who are receiving adequate diet.
The women and girl child, for whom the NDA government has launched flagship programmes, are no better in terms of their daily nutrition intake. About 55% of non-pregnant women and 58 per cent of pregnant women aged between aged 15-49 years are anaemic.
