From Mirzapur to the mayor’s office in England, Raj Mishra, the son of a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, has made history in the East Midlands. The 37-year-old Indian-origin politician was elected mayor of Wellingborough, a historic market town in Northamptonshire. Mishra, who won the local council election from Victoria Ward on May 6 as a…
Riyan Parag and Amit Mishra (PTI/Screengrab) NEW DELHI: Veteran leg-spinner Amit Mishra didn’t mince words as he tore into Rajasthan Royals’ stand-in skipper Riyan Parag following their close loss to Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday. With Sanju Samson sidelined due to injury, Parag stepped into the leadership role, but the star’s performance, along with his…
NEW DELHI: The previous AAP regime in Delhi provided just two jobs through its online portals including Rozgar Bazar, in the last five years, Employment Minister Kapil Mishra informed recently in the ongoing budget session of the Assembly. In a written reply to BJP MLA Abhay Verma’s question, the minister said that an online employment…
NEW DELHI: The Odisha assembly witnessed chaotic scenes on Tuesday after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition party Congress leaders engaged in a scuffle. The lawmakers were seen pushing each other, standing on the reporters’ table and raising slogans during a protest by the opposition — Congress and BJD.Tensions flared in the House during…
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party over the appointment of Rekha Gupta as Delhi chief minister and Kapil Mishra as cabinet minister.In a post on X, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose said by picking Rekha Gupta as Delhi CM, the “new BJP” has normalised “vicious abuse and vitriol”.“Disturbing…
BJP MLA Mohan Singh Bisht criticized his party’s decision to field Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar assembly seat NEW DELHI: In an attack from within the party ahead of the Delhi elections, sitting BJP MLA Mohan Singh Bisht on Sunday openly criticized his party’s decision to field Kapil Mishra from the Karawal Nagar assembly seat.“Clearly…
BJP’s CEC meeting at headquarters, New Delhi (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party on Saturday announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections, less than a month before the polling date. The list comprises a total of 29 names, came after the first list, which also included 29 candidates.The…
NEW DELHI: Recalling his association with former PM Manmohan Singh, who was teaching in Delhi School of Economics when he was a student, the PM’s principal secretary P K Mishra said the country had lost a “very distinguished leader, an eminent economist and a great human being”.“My memories of Manmohan Singh date back to the…
MUMBAI: India needs a greater focus on farmers with small land holdings and formulate a strategy to increase their income in order to realise the goal of a Viksit Bharat, or a developed nation by 2047, said P K Mishra, principal secretary to the PM, while delivering the 19th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture here.During…