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Akhilesh says BJP will lose in UP as people want change
IPA Webdesk The BJP will lose next year’s Uttar Pradesh election as people want change, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said today. In an exclusive interview, he also said his party would contest elections in alliance with like-minded smaller parties instead of major parties. “My experience with big...
Chidambaram tears into Modi govt’s vaccination policy
Hoard on Sunday, vaccinate on Monday and go back limping on Tuesday is how Congress leader P Chidambaram today explained the working order behind the centre’s “record” vaccinations in a day, in what was a three-step deconstruction and a searing takedown of the centre’s vaccination policy. Vaccination figures...
Over 40 Delta Plus cases reported in India
There are over 40 cases in the country of the new Delta Plus strain, which has been tagged as a “Variant of Concern” by the government. Yesterday, the government sent a warning to three states, Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, on Delta Plus cases found there. Sources say...
Online flash sales to be banned in major e-com policy tweaks
The government of India today proposed several tweaks to the country’s e-commerce rules to curb widespread cheating and unfair trade practices in the ecosystem. Among the changes proposed are a ban on certain kinds of flash sales and punitive action against the platform if sellers don’t deliver, according...
Another 8-year-old girl raped and killed in UP village
An eight-year-old girl was strangled to death in a village in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Her body was found in a sugarcane field late at night in the Kheri district, about 130 km from Lucknow, hours after she went missing. In the murder case, the police have now...
Prashant Kishor distances himself from Third Front
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor has ruled out any association with an opposition front to take on the BJP in the next general election. “I don’t believe a Third or Fourth Front could emerge as a successfully challenge to the current dispensation,” he told NDTV. Kishor believes that the...
Thieves drill hole in Delhi bank’s wall, decamp with Rs 55 lakh
An incident of theft was reported at a branch of Union Bank of India in Delhi’s Shahdara area on Sunday when a few men decamped with Rs 55 lakh in cash, the police said Monday. The thieves entered the bank by breaking through the walls of an under-construction...
Scribe booked for raising Ram temple land scam
The Uttar Pradesh police have invoked a massive 15 sections of the Indian Penal Code and three sections of the IT Act against a journalist and two others in Bijnor district over an alleged land grab case. The case was filed on a complaint by the brother of...
Modi govt blames UPA oil bonds for fuel woes
A “financial fraud” played by the UPA government (2004-2014) using the instrument of oil bonds is responsible for India’s consumers suffering today, government have sources. They also accused “non-politicians” of that day’s administration of dereliction of duty by not stopping the politicians in this matter. The Congress, however,...
Move to sell public sector oil companies to foreign investors
IPA Webdesk The government has initiated a move to sell state-owned oil companies to foreign investors. The Commerce and Industry Ministry has floated a draft cabinet note seeking inter-ministerial views on a proposal to allow up to 100 per cent foreign investment under automatic route in oil...
Sarbananda in Delhi ahead of cabinet rejig
Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal headed for Delhi amid speculation that he might get a ministerial berth in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet expansion. Sonowal had served as a Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs from 2014 to 2016 during the first term of the...
Tharoor panel tells Twitter to ‘abide by Indian laws’
IPA Webdesk Twitter was grilled by MPs across parties and told bluntly that “Indian laws are supreme and the company has to abide by the laws of India in India,” sources said after a meeting of the parliamentary panel on IT led by Congress’s Shashi Tharoor. During...
Third wave ‘inevitable’, says AIIMS chief
A third Covid wave in India is “inevitable”, and it may hit the country in the next six-eight weeks, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV. “As we have started unlocking, there is again a lack of Covid-appropriate behaviour. We don’t seem to have learnt from what...
UP police notice to Twitter MD for provoking ‘communal hatred’
IPA Webdesk The Uttar Pradesh Police has sent a legal notice to Twitter India’s Managing Editor for “provoking communal unrest” on the assault on a Muslim man in Ghaziabad earlier this month. Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, has been asked to come to the Police...
Second bribery case against Kerala BJP chief
Thiruvananthapuram: An FIR (first information report) has been filed against the BJP’s Kerala chief – the second in less that 10 days – on the allegation that he had given money to a tribal leader to return to the BJP-led alliance as a candidate for the assembly...
Student-activists released after stern court warning
IPA Webdesk Student-activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha walked out of Delhi’s Tihar jail today, hours after a court ordered their immediate release. They were arrested for alleged conspiracy in the north-east Delhi riots case. “It shows the desperation of the government… We are...
Twitter India chief quizzed in Congress toolkit case
Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, was questioned by the Delhi Police Special Cell in Bengaluru on May 31 in connection with the alleged ‘Congress toolkit’ case, sources said. This was a week after Delhi Police teams went to Twitter’s offices in Delhi and Gurgaon after...
Mumbai raid in connection with Ambani bomb scare
The NIA on Thursday morning raided the home of former Mumbai Police ‘encounter specialist’ Pradeep Sharma in connection with the Mukesh Ambani bomb scare investigation. A team from the central agency and armed CRPF (central reserve police force) personnel arrived at Sharma’s home in Mumbai’s Andheri at 5...
