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Thackeray gets two more weeks to submit documents to EC
The Election Commission is learnt to have given the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena 15 more days to submit documents in support of its claim on the party’s election symbol. Last month, the Election Commission had asked the rival factions of the Shiv Sena, led by Thackeray...
Tejashwi says govt will deliver on its 10 lakh jobs promise
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav has asserted that his newly formed government will deliver on the promise of providing 10 lakh jobs that he had made while spearheading the RJD’s campaign during the Bihar assembly elections in 2020. Yadav claimed that Nitish Kumar, with whom he took...
CBI arrests TMC leader after skipping summons in cattle case
Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a cattle smuggling case after failing to appear for questioning twice in three days. After the CBI filed a FIR in 2020, his name came up in the case. According to the CBI, over...
Mizoram, Assam CMs to hold border talks in Delhi
Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi later this month or early September to find an amicable solution to the inter-state border dispute, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday. The development came a day after the two northeastern states held a ministerial-level discussion...
Gehlot speaks to Mann in row over sewage water dumping
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday spoke to his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann over the issue of sewage water from the AAP-ruled state being dumped in the Indira Gandhi Canal Project. Gehlot said the two leaders also discussed relining work of the Sirhind Feeder canal. Talked to the Chief...
Cong to get Bihar Speaker’s post, BJP ministries for RJD
Bihar’s mercurial Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is all set to take oath for the eighth time on Wednesday and will now head a coalition of seven parties, backed by an Independent. While Kumar, who split with his ally BJP for the second time in eight years, is yet to...
Akhilesh says Bihar developments a good start
The change of government in Bihar has filled the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh with ‘optimism’. SP President Akhilesh Yadav sees the BJP-JD(U) break-up as a “good start” for Indian politics. “This is the beginning of the end. It signals ‘BJP satta chhodo’ on the lines of ‘Angrezo...
Trinamool in damage-control mode over ‘tainted’ leaders
Eighteen days after the arrest of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee in a teacher recruitment scam, the rage over the issue among the common people is still bubbling. The state’s ruling Trinamool Congress though appears to be distancing itself from the matter and on July 29 it...
BJD, Cong reject Shah’s claim of BJP govt in Odisha next
The Congress and BJD on Tuesday rejected Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion that the BJP will form the next government in Odisha. During a visit to the state on Monday, the senior BJP leader expressed confidence that the party will form government at the Centre and in Odisha...
Nitish Kumar resigns citing ‘consensus’ to ditch alliance
Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced he has submitted his resignation as chief minister of Bihar’s NDA government hours after he said the JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP has ended. In his first statement following his meeting with Governor Fagu Chauhan, Kumar said the decision to sever ties with NDA...
BJP says Nitish betrayed people of Bihar, readies plan
Dumped yet again by Nitish Kumar in Bihar, the BJP is readying its arsenal against the new alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress again joining forces, and will attack the new government on the issue of corruption, law and order and abuse of the public mandate in the 2020...
No woman in 20-member Maharashtra cabinet
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member ministry 41 days after taking oath as the CM by inducting 18 ministers, nine each from his rebel Shiv Sena group and the BJP. The list doesn’t include a woman, a move being panned by politicians and women’s rights...
Parliament adjourned sine die 4 days before schedule
The Parliament’s Monsoon Session ended on Monday, four days before its scheduled completion, with both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die. The session, which began on July 18, was slated to go on till August 12. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, before adjourning the ninth...
8 Cong MLAs to defect in a month, claims Assam BJP man
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) four-time Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Prasanta Phukan of Assam claimed on Monday that eight Congress MLAs will join the ruling BJP within a month. An event to facilitate this will be held soon, he said. Prasanta Phukan, who represents the Dibrugarh constituency in Upper...
Badal warns party members against airing views outside
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday set up a five-member disciplinary committee and also appealed to party members to only use the party platform to express their views. The committee will be headed by senior Akali leader Sikandar Singh Maluka. The other members are Sharanjt Singh Dhillon, Virsa...
Akhilesh to start Tiranga campaign with padayatra
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, will embark on a padayatra from Jhauva village of Tirwa Tehsil in Kannauj district as the party starts its tiranga campaign from Tuesday on the occasion of Kranti Diwas. Yadav will also interact with the families...
UP minister says he is ready to go to jail for his community
Uttar Pradesh Fisheries Minister and Nishad party chief Sanjay Nishad, who has been served a warrant by a Gorakhpur court in connection with a 2015 case connected to an agitation, has said that he is ready to go to jail for the rights of his community. Reacting to the...
Gehlot’s rape remark kicks up row
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot landed in a fresh trouble on Sunday for his remark, that murder cases after rape have increased after the law providing death sentences for rape convicts came into force. While the remark triggered criticism with several politicians condemning the statement, the chief minister later...
