Pawar had announced that he would visit the ED office at 2 pm, even though the agency has not summoned him yet
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a money laundering case against Pawar, his nephew Ajit Pawar - a former deputy chief minister of Maharashtra - and others in connection with the scam
Modi's address to world leaders at the UN will be the first after winning his second term as Prime Minister
The probe agency said that loans were sanctioned to CSF despite weak financial and negative network
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have already decided to contest the polls together under coalition
At a recent press conference, a journalist asked him a question: Not only were NCP leaders deserting his party and joining the BJP but even his relatives
Pawar, who at 30 became the youngest chief minister of Maharashtra in 1978, will have to do a lot of heavy-lifting in the Assembly polls in the state
The results of the Lok Sabha polls will be announced tomorrow
'A one-time full loan waiver is the need of the hour', says Pawar
Pawar said people in rural areas were miffed with the Centre over farm distress, farmers' suicides and other agrarian issues
A common minimum programme will be drafted once the non-BJP parties come on board to discuss the matter
Sharad Pawar has seen a lot, done a lot. That is why his intervention in acting honest broker to bring the Opposition together needs to be taken seriously
New Delhi, 15 MarchCongress chief Rahul Gandhi met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday night. The meeting came hours after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost the Gorakhpur and Phulpur by-elections, and a day before the Congress plenary session.In another development, Lok Janshakti Party chief, and union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, a constituent of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre, called a meeting of all Dalit members of Parliament on Thursday evening.Paswan had hosted a similar dinner after the BJP's rout in Bihar assembly polls in 2015. The meeting comes in the wake of Rashtriya Janata Dal defeating the BJP in Araria Lok Sabha and Jehanabad Assembly seats on Wednesday, and the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party unitedly defeating BJP in Phulpur and Gorakhpur.The Congress plenary session, the first under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, will convene here on Friday. It will elect a new Congress Working Committee. While ..
New Delhi, 6 JuneThe Opposition has formed a subgroup of leaders to take forward discussions on fielding a common candidate for the presidential and vice presidential polls. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar is likely to be the coordinator of this subgroup, and by virtue of this could emerge as the leader of a united Opposition in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.According to sources, other members of the group are former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Sitaram Yechury.As both Banerjee and Yechury are its members, the subgroup is unlikely to have a common meeting. Yechury's party and Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress are rivals in West Bengal and the two leaders do not want to be seen sharing a common platform. However, both leaders had attended the lunch for Opposition parties that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had hosted on 26 May.As the ..
He said 371 DCCBs got about Rs 44,000 crore worth of deposits
Supriya Sule said her father won his first election to the Legislative Assembly on February 22, 1967
Shiv Sena in the past few weeks has bitterly criticised BJP in the state and the Centre
Sena is contesting the municipal corporation elections, including BMC, on its own strength
Pawar also slammed Congress over the allegation that the NCP and BJP have a secret pact in the state
During an event last year, Modi said the Maratha strongman had helped him when he started out in politics