Politics
Sonia says Cong will have respectable share in Bihar govt
The Congress on Friday said discussions over ministerial berths in the Bihar government’s cabinet expansion have taken place and the party’s share would be “respectable”. Congress’ AICC in-charge of Bihar, Bhakta Charan Das said he met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad here for the first time after...
HP ‘mass conversion’ bill to prohibit religion change
A bill introduced to make a specific mention of “mass conversion” in an existing law that forbids change of religion through force or allurement and to enhance punishment will be discussed in the Himachal Pradesh assembly on the last day of its Monsoon Session on Saturday. The Jai Ram...
Pavan Varma quits TMC after a year of joining it
Former Rajya Sabha MP Pavan K Varma on Friday resigned from the Trinamool Congress, nearly nine months after joining the Mamata Banerjee-led party. Varma, a former JD(U) MP, had joined TMC in November last year in the presence of Banerjee during her visit to the national capital. “Dear @MamataOfficial...
‘Slap on BJP’s face, says Tejashwi after meeting Sonia
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday said Nitish Kumar’s decision to walk out of the NDA coalition and form the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance) government in the state was a “slap on the BJP’s face”. The statement came after the RJD leader met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and...
Karnataka HC reinstates anti-corruption powers to Lokayukta
In a landmark judgment, Karnataka High Court on Thursday nullified the order of formation of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) by the then Congress government in 2016 headed by then chief minister Siddaramaiah. The division bench headed by Justice B. Veerappa and Justice K.S. Hemalekha gave the order while looking into...
JD-U leader says BJP will lose 40 LS seats in 3 states alone
JD(U) president Lalan Singh expressed confidence on Thursday that the BJP will be “uprooted” from power at the Centre in 2024 and will lose 40 Lok Sabha seats out of its 2019 winning tally in three states alone. Speaking to reporters after meeting Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad...
BJP slams Cong for attacking PM on ‘black magic’ comment
After Indian Youth Congress national president uploaded images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting a black thread worn by him, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Thursday slammed the Congress calling it a “kali kartut, kali niyat wali party” (a party of dark deeds and intentions). Srinivas uploaded these images...
Thackeray gets two more weeks to submit documents to EC
The Election Commission is learnt to have given the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena 15 more days to submit documents in support of its claim on the party’s election symbol. Last month, the Election Commission had asked the rival factions of the Shiv Sena, led by Thackeray...
Tejashwi says govt will deliver on its 10 lakh jobs promise
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav has asserted that his newly formed government will deliver on the promise of providing 10 lakh jobs that he had made while spearheading the RJD’s campaign during the Bihar assembly elections in 2020. Yadav claimed that Nitish Kumar, with whom he took...
CBI arrests TMC leader after skipping summons in cattle case
Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a cattle smuggling case after failing to appear for questioning twice in three days. After the CBI filed a FIR in 2020, his name came up in the case. According to the CBI, over...
Mizoram, Assam CMs to hold border talks in Delhi
Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi later this month or early September to find an amicable solution to the inter-state border dispute, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday. The development came a day after the two northeastern states held a ministerial-level discussion...
Gehlot speaks to Mann in row over sewage water dumping
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday spoke to his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann over the issue of sewage water from the AAP-ruled state being dumped in the Indira Gandhi Canal Project. Gehlot said the two leaders also discussed relining work of the Sirhind Feeder canal. Talked to the Chief...
Cong to get Bihar Speaker’s post, BJP ministries for RJD
Bihar’s mercurial Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is all set to take oath for the eighth time on Wednesday and will now head a coalition of seven parties, backed by an Independent. While Kumar, who split with his ally BJP for the second time in eight years, is yet to...
Akhilesh says Bihar developments a good start
The change of government in Bihar has filled the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh with ‘optimism’. SP President Akhilesh Yadav sees the BJP-JD(U) break-up as a “good start” for Indian politics. “This is the beginning of the end. It signals ‘BJP satta chhodo’ on the lines of ‘Angrezo...
Trinamool in damage-control mode over ‘tainted’ leaders
Eighteen days after the arrest of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee in a teacher recruitment scam, the rage over the issue among the common people is still bubbling. The state’s ruling Trinamool Congress though appears to be distancing itself from the matter and on July 29 it...
BJD, Cong reject Shah’s claim of BJP govt in Odisha next
The Congress and BJD on Tuesday rejected Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion that the BJP will form the next government in Odisha. During a visit to the state on Monday, the senior BJP leader expressed confidence that the party will form government at the Centre and in Odisha...
Nitish Kumar resigns citing ‘consensus’ to ditch alliance
Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced he has submitted his resignation as chief minister of Bihar’s NDA government hours after he said the JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP has ended. In his first statement following his meeting with Governor Fagu Chauhan, Kumar said the decision to sever ties with NDA...
BJP says Nitish betrayed people of Bihar, readies plan
Dumped yet again by Nitish Kumar in Bihar, the BJP is readying its arsenal against the new alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress again joining forces, and will attack the new government on the issue of corruption, law and order and abuse of the public mandate in the 2020...
