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Rahul Gandhi kicks off mega Cong Yatra with eye on 2024
In what is being seen as Congress’s “masterstroke” for the upcoming 2024 general election, party MP Rahul Gandhi will launch the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kanyakumari today. Rahul Gandhi started his day with a visit to his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial in Tamil Nadu’s...
NSE ex-chief Ravi Narain held in money laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested former National Stock Exchange CEO and MD Ravi Narain in a money laundering case, officials said. His role is being investigated by the federal probe agency as part of two criminal cases linked to the bourse – the alleged co-location ‘scam’ case and...
TMC women on dharna against Bilkis Bano case releases
The women’s wing of the Trinamool Congress, led by senior ministers in the state government, on Tuesday began a 48-hour dharna against the release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano. Targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Trinamool leaders said that the remission...
Liz Truss tougher China stance to further sour ties
One of British politics’ firmest critics of China became prime minister on Tuesday as Liz Truss, a self-styled defender of the post-war western world order, replaced Boris Johnson whose policy towards Beijing failed to harden fast enough for many in his party. Relations between London and Beijing have worsened...
Supreme Court questions right to practice religion at any place
A person has a right to practise religion but the question is whether it can be taken to a school having a prescribed uniform, the Supreme Court observed on Monday while hearing the case pertaining to Hijab ban in Karnataka’s educational institutions. Hearing arguments on a batch of pleas...
Scindia loyalists take on Shivraj Chouhan Govt
The BJP is apparently a divided house in Madhya Pradesh, with a handful of MLAs who changed camp along with Jyotiraditaya Scindia now opposing various measures of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government. It has brought much glee in the Congress camp, which has underscored that the Scindia loyalists are...
Cyrus Mistry was in back seat without seat belt: Sources
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and a co-passenger, who died in a car accident on Sunday, were not wearing seat belts as per a preliminary investigation, police sources have said. Cyrus Mistry and Jehangir Pandole were sitting in the back seats when the car hit the road divider...
Pawar advises Shinde to avert Dussehra rally venue face-off
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday advised Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to avoid a face-off over the annual Dussehra rally of the Shiv Sena. Both the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and the rebel faction headed by Shinde have sought the Shivaji Park ground in Mumbai as...
Alarm after Ukraine nuclear plant cutoff from grid
The global atomic energy watchdog said on Saturday that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had been disconnected from its last remaining main power line to the grid and is now relying on a reserve line. “Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has once again lost the connection to its...
Outrage forces stoppage of mining at Ram-linked MP hill
No mining will be allowed on the hill where Lord Ram is believed to have taken a pledge to kill demons, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has declared. A huge controversy began after the Satna district administration scheduled a public hearing for September 30 — mandatory under environment...
Kejriwal retaliates Lt Guv with corruption charges against him
The escalating friction between Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party spiked with VK Saxena accusing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of “diversionary tactics and false accusations”. Caught in a tussle over the excise policy, AAP had accused the Lieutenant Governor of being involved in corruption during demonetisation....
Supreme Court questions High Court notice to Teesta
Raising serious concerns about the way activist Teesta Setalvad has been kept in custody in Gujarat for more than two months, the Supreme Court questioned how the Gujarat High Court issued notice asking for a reply after six weeks. A bench led by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit...
Shinde meets Uddhav Thackeray’s top aide
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday visited the residence of Milind Narvekar, personal secretary of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, on the occasion of Ganesh festival. Eknath Shinde, who rebelled against Thackeray’s leadership in June and toppled his government, said he paid visit to Narvekar’s residence to pay...
Bengal BJP chief is a puppet, says party colleague
Infighting in Bengal BJP came out in the open on Thursday when its national secretary Anupam Hazra slammed the party’s Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar for “lacking the personality” needed to lead a party and said he is just a puppet who is controlled by others. Hazra’s outburst against Majumdar...
Kidnap-accused Bihar minister forced to quit
A minister in the Nitish Kumar government, who is an accused in a 2014 kidnapping case, resigned on Wednesday night amid protests by the opposition. Earlier in the day, the Bihar Law Minister Kartik Kumar, a leader from the alliance partner Rashtriya Janata Dal, was moved to the sugracane...
Portugal minister quits after pregnant Indian tourist dies
Portugal’s Health Minister Marta Temido resigned on Tuesday after the widespread criticism of her decision to temporarily close emergency obstetric services and the death of an Indian pregnant woman during transfer between hospitals. Ms Temido in a sentence said that she “no longer has the conditions” to exercise the...
Shivakumar says Karnataka ‘country’s corruption capital’
The Congress today accused the BJP of deflecting attention from multiple corruption scandals in Karnataka ahead of the next year’s elections, with focus on communal issues like the row over hijab, halal meat and the lately, the Ganesh Chaturthi celebration on Eidgah land. In an exclusive interview with NDTV,...
Azad explains to G-23 leaders why he quit suddenly
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the Congress on Friday, today met with three leaders of the party who were part of the “G-23” or group of dissenters – Anand Sharma, Prithviraj Chavan and Bhupinder Hooda. The leaders visited Azad at his home in Delhi and asked him “first hand”...
