Politics
Cong wants all like-minded parties to unite against BJP
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday said his party wanted all like-minded outfits to join hands to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the Congress’ core committee , Patole said the aim is to avoid...
Karnataka HC extends stay on FIR against Rahul, others
The High Court of Karnataka on Friday extended the stay on the FIR against Congress party leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh and Supriya Shrinate till June 23, over the alleged copyright violation of music from the hit film ‘KGF Chapter 2.’ MRT Music, a sister concern of Lahari Music,...
Ajit Pawar accuses Shinde govt of graft, fixed transfer ‘fee’
Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar on Friday accused the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra of indulging in massive corruption, including fixing rates for transfer of officials. The personal assistants of several ministers had been raided (for corruption), the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly alleged. Speaking to...
RJD MLA claims Ramcharitmanas written in mosque
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Ritlal Yadav courted controversy after he claimed that the Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas was “written in a mosque”. Yadav, an MLA from Bihar’s Danapur, went a step further and advised everyone to “pick up the history books and check” that his point is correct. Yadav was addressing the media...
Nehru’s name erased from Memorial Museum and Library
Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Manish Tewari on Friday launched an indirect attack on the Centre, asking “those trying to erase Jawahar Lal Nehru’s contribution” to read ‘Discovery of India’ and ‘Glimpses of World History’. He added that legacies don’t get erased by renaming buildings. This reaction...
HC orders deployment of central forces for Bengal civic poll
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to requisition and deploy central forces across West Bengal for the July 8 panchayat elections in the state. The court noted that no appreciable steps have been taken ever since an order was passed by it on...
BJP slams Cong vote bank politics for opposition to UCC
The BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress over its remark on the Law Commission seeking public opinion on a uniform civil code, saying it has succumbed to pressure from “fundamentalists” and is opposing the move for vote bank politics. The BJP is committed towards the implementation of the uniform...
BJP, Cong copying Kejriwal’s ‘Delhi Model’, claims AAP
Aam Aadmi Party’s Madhya Pradesh unit president Rani Agarwal on Thursday said populist schemes being announced by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress ahead of state Assembly polls at the end of the year have been copied from Arvind Kejriwal’s “Delhi model”. The welfare schemes launched by Delhi...
Reading of Preamble mandatory in Karnataka schools, colleges
The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to make it mandatory for all schools and colleges, whether government, aided or private, to read the Preamble of the Constitution daily. It has also made it compulsory to have a portrait of the Preamble of the Constitution put up at all government...
Central move jeopardises Siddaramaiah’s grains scheme
Even though an election slugfest between the Congress and BJP is over in Karnataka, but a power tussle is still on over the implementation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s ambitious project ‘Anna Bhagya’. Under this scheme, 10 kg of food grains will be given to every member of a Below...
