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Trinamool mocks Modi’s pre-session all-party meet
Ahead of the monsoon session, PM Modi today sought a productive sitting of Parliament. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attended an all-party meeting on the eve of this year’s monsoon session of Parliament, seeking a productive sitting. The Trinamool, however, took a swipe at him saying his...
Phones of Indian politicians, journalists hacked using Pegasus
Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition leaders and journalists have been found on a leaked database of targets for hacking that used Israeli spyware ‘Pegasus’, media reports said. Members of the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, rights activists and others are also in the list of over 300...
UP Kanwar Yatra cancelled
Uttar Pradesh will not hold Kanwar Yatra this year too, organisers of the religious event have said. The move to cancel Kanwar Yatra amid the COVID-19 pandemic comes a day after the Supreme Court gave the Yogi Adityanath government time till Monday to reconsider its decision to go ahead...
Amarinder Singh agrees to Sidhu promotion with riders
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday agreed to a Congress plan to promote rival Navjot Singh Sidhu as the party’s state president and end the simmering mutiny but listed terms for the solution, sources said. Captain Singh’s assent came after a meeting with Congress’s Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat...
PM Modi, Sharad Pawar meet amidst President speculation
Sharad Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence. The meeting last 50 minutes, sources said. “Rajya Sabha MP Shri Sharad Pawar met PM Narendra Modi,” the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted, along with a photo of the two leaders meeting. The...
Punjab Cong in-charge Rawat’s meeting with CM triggers speculation
The Congress’s Punjab In-Charge, Harish Rawat, was today flown into Chandigarh in a state government chopper to meet Chief Minister Amarinder Singh even as the rebellion in party’s unit there continued to simmer. The senior leader arrival came hours after indications that cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu may be given...
SC asks UP to reconsider Kanwar Yatra
New Delhi: States must not allow the movement of devotees undertaking the ‘Kanwar yatra’ due to the pandemic situation, the Centre told the Supreme Court today during a hearing on the matter. Instead, states should develop a system to make the holy water from Ganga available to the devotees through tankers,...
NITI Aayog CEO justifies high fuel prices
Investing huge sums into top quality infrastructure will lead to a high trajectory of growth, but it is a difficult choice to make if resources are scarce, the Chief Executive of the government think tank NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, told NDTV. The government has been battling criticism over...
Rahul among those hailing Supreme Court on sedition law
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders of other opposition parties have commended the Supreme Court terming India’s sedition law as “colonial”. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, while agreeing to look into petitions by the Editors Guild of India and a Major General (retired) challenging...
10 of 30 people falling into MP well remain to be rescued
Vidhisha, Madhya Pradesh: In a major mishap, around 30 people fell into a well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened when the villagers were trying to rescue a boy who had fallen in the well earlier. As per the officials, the roof of...
