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UP set to include 39 castes in OBC list with eye on elections
Months ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in the State has started preparations to include 39 castes in the list of Other Backward Castes (OBC) in the State. The Chairman of State Backward Classes Commission, Jaswant Saini, has said that the...
Congress appoints Chidambaram as observer for Goa
The Congress has appointed party veteran P Chidambaram as its senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls due next year. AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal issued an order to this effect on Sunday. Chidambaram will oversee election strategies and coordination for the upcoming Assembly election in the...
BJP gets 6 new deputy Whips for Lok Sabha coordination
The Bharatiya Janata Party recently appointed six new deputy whips in the Lok Sabha in addition to the existing ones. While Madhya Pradesh MP Rakesh Singh continues to be the chief of whips, he now has a total of 10 deputies under him to coordinate better in the Lok...
Opposition backs Govt on OBC bill, but no change on Pegasus
The OBC amendment bill proposed by the centre to enable states to make their own list of Other Backward Classes received the stamp of approval from the Opposition parties even amid an ongoing disagreement with the centre over farmers’ protest and the alleged Pegasus spyware scandal. Expressing his support...
Bommai keeps plum Bengaluru Development portfolio
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday allocated cabinet portfolios, retaining crucial posts, including Finance and Bengaluru Development for himself. The decision has stirred disenchantment among the party loyalists and turncoats who had eyes on the portfolio. Bommai has retained DPAR, Finance, and Intelligence from Home, Cabinet Affairs, Bengaluru...
Yediyurappa gets cabinet rank status for nothing
The Karnataka government on Saturday issued an order providing former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa all facilities on par with Cabinet-rank ministers. This will be applicable until Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is in office, an official notification from the protocol wing of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms...
Bihar parties don’t want to risk ‘Upper Caste’ displeasure
Politics on the basis of caste is not a new phenomenon in Bihar whether it is the ruling or the opposition parties which are speaking in one voice about implementing the caste-based census in the state. However, all parties in Bihar do not want to let go any opportunity...
Chirag Paswan hints at tie-up with Lalu’s RJD
LJP leader and Jamui MP Chirag Paswan on Friday expressed gratitude to RJD chief Lalu Prasad and said that the support he received from the veteran leader “meant a lot to him”. On being asked about a possible alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, Paswan kept the tie-up...
After Tamil Nadu, Mamata posters in Kerala
After Tamil Nadu, grand posters of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee have come up in Kerala. In a redux of the 1970s when giant banners of former prime minister Indira Gandhi had sprung up in Kerala’s Kochi, “Call Didi Save India, Delhi Chalo” posters...
Son says Mukul Roy suffering from depression
Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy’s son in conversation with News18 defended his father’s comment and said that he is forgetting things due to a chemical imbalance in his body and is suffering from depression after his wife’s death. “There is immense sodium potassium imbalance in my father’s body, that...
Mayawati demands separate Census for OBCs
Political parties in Uttar Pradesh have begun to play their cards as the assembly elections approach. Meanwhile, Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party and former Chief Minister of the state, urged a separate census of the OBC castes and stated that if the central government takes any...
TMC team to meet EC to demand bypolls
A delegation of Mamata Banerjee‘s party will meet the Election Commission on Friday afternoon to demand bypolls. Trinamool Congress general secretary said that the West Bengal byelections have been pending, and they had approached the EC last month too. Among the seven seats due for bypolls, the chief minister...
Johnson & Johnson seeks approval of its single-dose Covid vaccine
Global healthcare major Johnson & Johnson on Friday said it has applied for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine in India. Earlier on Monday, the company had said that it remained committed to bringing its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to India and looks forward to ongoing discussions...
IT Act amended to end retrospective tax demand
: The Union government on Thursday amended the Income Tax Act to end controversial retrospective tax demand. The move came after back-to-back setbacks in Cairn energy and Vodafone Group tax dispute cases. An Ordinance was introduced in Lok Sabha to scrap the dreaded retrospective changes made in Finance Act,...
Nitish to meet PM Modi on SC, ST Census
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said that he has sought an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the tricky issue of caste-based census which the Centre has proposed to hold only for SCs and STs, triggering protests in the state. The Union government had informed...
Prashant Kishor quits as adviser to Punjab CM for a ‘break’
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Thursday quit as adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, saying he had decided to take a temporary break from active role in public life. “As you are aware, in view of my decision to take a temporary break from active role in...
Akhilesh’s ‘cycle yatra’ across UP against inflation, farm laws
Lucknow: Ahead of the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party will kick off its ‘Cycle Yatra’ from across state on Thursday. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will paddle for six kilometres — from Samajwadi Party Headquarters at 19 Vikramaditya Marg in Lucknow to Janeshwar Mishra Park at...
No berth to Yeddyurappa’s son in 29-member Bommai ministry
Basavaraj Bommai, who took charge as the Chief Minister of Karnataka a week ago, expanded his cabinet by inducting 29 ministers on Wednesday. It seems he is trying to strike a fine balance between both pro and anti BS Yediyurappa factions by keeping an equidistant from both. The new...
