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Amit Shah talks about coalition Govt
Union home minister Amit Shah Saturday talked about coalition politics and said, “politics isn’t physics, it’s chemistry.” He was addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit (HTLS) on its final day, and emphasized that India was in a state of ‘policy paralysis’ before 2014, and it was changed by the...
Gita Gopinath promoted as IMF First Deputy MD
Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of International Monetary Fund, is being promoted as IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director, the fund announced Thursday. She would replace Geoffrey Okamoto who plans to leave the Fund early next year. Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to her academic position at Harvard...
Case against Mamata for National Anthem ‘insult’
A BJP leader in Mumbai has filed a complaint against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly singing the national anthem while being seated and ‘abruptly stopping after four or five verses’. The Trinamool Congress supremo, who was on a visit to the financial capital, met NCP chief...
Kapil Sibal shows olive branch to Mamata on UPA
A day after Mamata Banerjee drilled what seemed to be the final nail in the Congress coffin by negating the presence of UPA, Congress veteran Kapil Sibal extended an olive branch to the West Bengal chief minister, saying “without the Congress, UPA will be a body without a...
Free smartphones and tablets as Yogi’s poll sops
The Uttar Pradesh government is preparing to distribute free smartphones and laptops to students from the second week of December. A dedicated portal ‘DG Shakti’ has been created for this which will soon be launched by the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Through this portal, the distribution of smartphones...
Channi calls Kejriwal ‘imposter’
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi Tuesday launched a scathing attack on his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, calling him an “imposter” and accusing his Aam Aadmi Party of making only false promises and giving fake guarantees. The senior Congress leader also blamed the Badals of the Shiromani Akali Dal...
TMC meeting gives Mamata veto power
Every move of the Trinamool Congress has an agenda set for a national goal. On Monday, the working committee meeting charted a plan aimed at that direction. This was the first meeting when leaders from Goa, Meghalaya, Haryana, Bihar and other States were present. To achieve that goal, the...
Meghalaya Congress demands disqualification of defectors
Meghalaya Congress leaders met Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh on Monday seeking disqualification of all the 12 defecting legislators. Filing petition before the speaker, the newly elected Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Ampareen Lyngdoh urged him to take up procedural measures as mandated under Rule 7 of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly...
Govt justifies suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs
The Winter Session of the Parliament took off on a bitter note as 12 Rajya Sabha MPs were suspended on Monday for the remaining part of the session. The action followed the violent scenes witnessed on the last day of the Monsoon Session on August 11. The letter written...
Stormy winter session likely with Pegasus, MSP in focus
The winter session of parliament is expected to begin on a stormy note with contentious issues in focus, even as it was preceded by a tense all-party meeting on Sunday with the AAP staging a walkout. Opposition parties criticised the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was unable...
Modi lauds BJP’s victory in Tripura civic poll
[ad_1v Lauding the BJP’s big win in the Tripura local body polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the people of the state have given a clear message that they prefer politics of good governance. These blessings give us greater strength to work for the welfare of...
RSS chief says India is a Hindu nation
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said “Hindustan” (India) is a Hindu nation whose origin was Hindutva and that Hindus and Bharat are inseparable. He also said if Hindus want to remain Hindus then Bharat has to be made “akhand” (undivided). Hindustan is a Hindu Rashtra and its...
Farm laws withdrawn in country’s interest: Yogi
Attacking the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav over the Jinnah controversy, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday that those who are ‘rioters’, ‘followers of Jinnah’, how can they understand the ‘mithaas of ganna’. Before 2017, the condition of farmers in UP was miserable. Now the farmer is...
Delhi HC junks plea to stop Khurshid’s book
Freedom of expressing ideas and opinions cannot be allowed to be overshadowed by the ominous cloud of being non-conformist, the Delhi High Court has said while dismissing a plea to stop the publication, circulation and sale of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s new book. Former Union Minister Khurshid has sparked...
Congress readies strategy to corner govt in winter session
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence was abuzz with leaders on Thursday who had come for a meeting of the party’s parliament strategy group to discuss the issues that the party will raise in the winter session beginning on November 29. Among those present at the meeting were AK Antony,...
Channi spends a ‘commemorative’ night at gurdwara
Recalling his old days and to relive them again, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi decided to spend the Thursday night at the same gurdwara where he had stayed during his cycle yatra in 2016. Channi, who was the leader of opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha then, had...
Odisha ‘egg attacks’ against joblessness, price hike continue
A day after BJP supporters hurled eggs at the convoy of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Puri, Congress supporters targeted BJD MP Aparajita Sarangi in the same way near Bhubaneswar. Eggs were hurled at her vehicle and she was shown black flags at Banamalipur by Congress workers...
Behind-the-scenes story of Mukul Sangma’s switch to TMC
It was an afternoon two months ago when Mukul Sangma expressed his displeasure with staying in the Congress, a result of the growing distance between him and Pradesh Congress Committee chief Vincent Pala ever since the latter was appointed the new Meghalaya unit chief. As Sangma’s unrest grew, his...
