Politics
BJP to launch mega outreach to woo SC community
In a mega outreach to the Scheduled Caste (SC) community, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to do ‘pravas’ in community bastis. Observing the week in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday (September 17) falls as Sewa Pakhwaras, the BJP has decided to revive its touch with the...
Shinde govt slammed for semiconductor plant loss
As Gujarat bagged the project of India’s first semiconductor plant, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday hit out at the Eknath Shinde-led government for letting go off “an almost finalised” deal out of Maharashtra. The Rs 1.54 lakh-crore venture by the mining conglomerate Vedanta, Thackeray said, was brought...
Mufti says Azad’s Article 370 remark ‘personal opinion’
Terming former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s remarks on Article 370 a “personal opinion”, Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said her party will fight for its restoration and “end injustice” in the Union territory. At his maiden rally in Kashmir after quitting the...
AAP returns the ‘compliment’ to LG on sewer deaths
After Delhi High Court took cognizance of the death of two people during cleaning of a sewer in the city, the AAP on Monday targeted Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, saying the DDA which comes under him is responsible for the tragic incident. The Delhi LG cannot enjoy power...
Bihar minister says babus have made him ‘chief of thieves’
Bihar Agriculture Minister Sudhakar Singh has termed officials and employees of his department “thieves”, and quipped that this made him “a chief of thieves”. “There are many thieves in my department and they are stealing money. As I am the in-charge of the department, I become their chief. There...
KCR announces plan for national party to take on BJP
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who has been meeting several Opposition leaders to stich a united front against the BJP, on Sunday put an end to speculations and said he would soon launch a national party and the work is on to formulate...
Row over Shinde sharing stage with CJI ahead of crucial case
The Maha Vikas Aghadi allies on Sunday took a dim view of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde sharing a stage with Chief Justice of India U U Lalit amid the Supreme Court hearing petitions of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena and the CM camp. State NCP president Jayant Patil, whose...
TMC threatens ‘Tea Movement’ in Delhi to defend ‘one Bengal
There is no different Bengal, there is only one Bengal called West Bengal, said Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee in Jalpaiguri on Sunday, responding to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders’ demand for a “separate Bengal” for the past six months. Moreover, Ananta Maharaj Rajbongshi, who has a...
Assam Cong gen sec quits over ‘lack of leadership’
Assam Congress general secretary Kamrul Islam Choudhury on Sunday resigned from the party, terming the state leadership ”directionless and confused”. Choudhury announced his resignation in a letter to All India Congress Committee President Sonial Gandhi. ”… The present instability of Congress party in Assam due to the directionless and...
Cong Bharat Jodo Yatra’s 19-day Kerala leg begins in style
Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra commenced its 19-day long Kerala leg Sunday morning from Parassala area of the capital city. Rahul Gandhi started the yatra after being formally welcomed by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president and MP K Sudhakaran, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state assembly V D...
CBI to probe Delhi Govt ‘irregularities’ in low-floor bus purchase
Delhi LG V K Saxena has approved a proposal to forward a complaint to the CBI to probe the alleged corruption in the procurement of 1,000 low-floor buses by the DTC, official sources said on Saturday. A complaint addressed to Saxena in June this year had highlighted the appointment...
Owaisi party hold over Hyderabad survives many waves
Such has been the dominance of AIMIM in Hyderabad politics for over four decades that its stronghold remained immune to the political waves sweeping the state. No matter which party was in power in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh, the support base of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) remained...
Probe ordered into financial irregularities in MP churches
A day after Madhya Pradesh’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) conducted searches at the residence and office of Church of North India Jabalpur Diocese’s bishop P.C. Singh in connection with a cheating case that led to the disclosure of large-scale financial irregularities, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday ordered...
BJP ruckus over amenities in Bharat Jodo Yatra caravans
Sixty truck-mounted containers with colour-coded occupant capacity, a 10-seater conference facility, mobile toilets and a dining area are some of the features of a “Bharat Jodo Yatra” campsite that moves daily to a new location. Rahul Gandhi is staying in a one-bed container that has a small sofa, an...
Kejriwal meets LG first time since CBI raid against Sisodia
Amid the ongoing political tussle in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday met Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena for the first time since the raids by CBI at Deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s residence and said whatever happened was “unfortunate”. He voiced hope that the situation will improve. He had...
Tharoor among MPs doubting transparency in party chief poll
Five Congress MPs have written to AICC central election authority chief Madhusudan Mistry expressing concern about the “transparency and fairness” of the party chief’s election and sought that the list of PCC delegates that make up the electoral college be provided to all electors and potential candidates. In a...
Fadnavis pot shots at Pawar over Baramati seat in 2024
With the Bharatiya Janata Party talking about wresting the Baramati constituency in the 2024 elections, the Nationalist Congress Party’s state unit chief Jayant Patil on Wednesday said that the sun may rise in the west, but the people of Baramati will never abandon NCP chief Sharad Pawar. However, Maharashtra...
Gujarat BJP chief calls Medha Patkar ‘urban naxal’
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat unit president C R Paatil on Wednesday termed activist Medha Patkar an “urban Naxal” and a “staunch anti-Gujarat person”, and claimed the AAP is planning to project her as its chief ministerial face in the upcoming state Assembly elections. However, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...
