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Telangana Cong chief under ‘house arrest’
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and Congress MP A Revanth Reddy and several other senior party leaders were on Mondayput under “house arrest” at different places here, police said. Revanth Reddy, Congress Lok Sabha member from Malkajgiri, had alleged that there were irregularities to the tune of Rs...
Punjab seen holding clues to several other states for Cong
With the appointment of Navjot Singh Sidhu as PCC chief, the Gandhis have made it clear that they are the boss. While the Gandhis had already made up their mind about Sidhu, they were hesitant for a moment on seeing the strong stand taken by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder...
Trinamool MPs cycle to parliament to protest fuel price hike
Several Trinamool Congress MPs will cycle to Parliament on Monday to protest against the rise in prices of fuel and other commodities, the party said. The party MPs from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will also hold a dharna at Vijay Chowk. The All India Trinamool Congress has...
Viral audio clip embarrasses Yediyurappa
An audio clip, in which BJP’s Karnataka president Nalin Kumar Kateel allegedly hints at a possible change in leadership, went viral on social media on Sunday amid buzz of Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa being replaced. Kateel, however, called the audio fake and denied any association with the leaked audio...
Maharashtra minister defies Covid curbs to perform ‘aarti’
At a time when religious places remain closed for common people in Maharashtra in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, state Housing Minister and NCP leader Jitendra Awhad on Sunday visited a temple of Lord Ganesh here and performed aarti, inviting criticism from the BJP. Awhad took darshan of the...
Sidhu promoted as Punjab PCC chief
Navjot Singh Sidhu was appointed as the Punjab Congress president Sunday night. The appointment came after days of hectic activity as Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Sidhu have been at loggerheads over various issues. The opposition SAD on Sunday took a swipe at the Congress over the feud within...
BSP to hold ‘Brahmin Sammelan’ in Ayodhya
The Bahujan Samaj Party will hold a ‘Brahmin Sammelan’ in Ayodhya from July 23 to woo the upper caste community ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022. BSP chief and former UP Chief Minister Mayawati has endowed the responsibility of the event on party national general secretary Satish...
Rajasthan BJP expels senior leader Rohitash Sharma
The Rajasthan BJP on Saturday expelled senior leader and former minister Rohitash Sharma from the party for six years on charges of breach of discipline. BJP state president Satish Poonia issued the order to expel Sharma from the primary membership of the party. Considered close to former chief minister...
Yediyurappa in Delhi for meetings, denies resignation
Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa met BJP national president JP Nadda and on Saturday dismissed rumours about his resignation saying no one asked his for his resignation and there was no discussion over leadership change in the state. “No one asked me for my resignation. No such situation arose. There...
Mamata’s graffiti fill walls of Tamil Nadu
Graffitis of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee have come up in Tamil Nadu, but with a twist. Banerjee is not ‘Didi’ anymore, but ‘Amma’ – the beloved moniker used for former Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa. ‘Amma’ literally means mother in Tamil. As Banerjee...
Mamata to meet Sonia, others during Delhi visit
Amid talks of the opposition joining hands to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee plans to go to Delhi later this month to meet the opposition leaders. Though Banerjee termed it as a normal visit, her proposed visit...
Cong to wait to declare Punjab CM face till elections
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s impending appointment as the President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) could mean he could be the next chief minister of the state if Congress wins in 2022 and a majority of the MLAs support him, as was the precedent earlier in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh...
Mamata’s Delhi trip could be part of Prashant Kishor’s strategy
On March 23, 2019 — ahead of the Lok Sabha Polls — Congress president Rahul Gandhi compared Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with BJP’s Narendra Modi. This happened two months after when his mother and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi extended support to Banerjee’s mega ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (Grand Alliance) rally...
RBI says near-term economic prospects bright
A gradual decline in India’s second wave of COVID-19 infections and an aggressive vaccination push have brightened the near-term prospects for the economy, the Reserve Bank of India said in its July bulletin, released on Thursday. The RBI said there had been a rise in mobility indicators and attendance...
Centre releases Rs 75,000 crore to states as GST compensation
The government on Thursday said it has released Rs 75,000 crore to the states and Union Territories to compensate them for the shortfall in GST revenue. The GST Council in its meeting on May 28 had decided that the central government would borrow Rs 1.59 lakh crore and release...
Two Maharajas on sale, says Chhattisgarh CM Baghel
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently expanded his Cabinet and included many new faces including Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel attacked Scindia for being made the Union Civil Aviation Minister. Baghel said that the logo of Air India is Maharaja and Scindia is from the...
Arunachal parties write to President over dispute with Assam
Four opposition parties in Arunachal Pradesh, including the Congress, have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention in resolving the boundary dispute between the state and neighbouring Assam, after a recent controversy over Kimin area along the interstate border. In a memorandum to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday,...
Population control debate exposes Bihar fault lines
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s apparent distaste for enforcing population control through legal means, in the face of his ally BJP coming out in support of such coercive measures, has once again exposed the ideological fault lines within the ruling coalition here. Kumar had voiced his disapproval of adopting...
