Politics
No woman in 20-member Maharashtra cabinet
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member ministry 41 days after taking oath as the CM by inducting 18 ministers, nine each from his rebel Shiv Sena group and the BJP. The list doesn’t include a woman, a move being panned by politicians and women’s rights...
Parliament adjourned sine die 4 days before schedule
The Parliament’s Monsoon Session ended on Monday, four days before its scheduled completion, with both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die. The session, which began on July 18, was slated to go on till August 12. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, before adjourning the ninth...
8 Cong MLAs to defect in a month, claims Assam BJP man
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) four-time Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Prasanta Phukan of Assam claimed on Monday that eight Congress MLAs will join the ruling BJP within a month. An event to facilitate this will be held soon, he said. Prasanta Phukan, who represents the Dibrugarh constituency in Upper...
Badal warns party members against airing views outside
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday set up a five-member disciplinary committee and also appealed to party members to only use the party platform to express their views. The committee will be headed by senior Akali leader Sikandar Singh Maluka. The other members are Sharanjt Singh Dhillon, Virsa...
Akhilesh to start Tiranga campaign with padayatra
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, will embark on a padayatra from Jhauva village of Tirwa Tehsil in Kannauj district as the party starts its tiranga campaign from Tuesday on the occasion of Kranti Diwas. Yadav will also interact with the families...
UP minister says he is ready to go to jail for his community
Uttar Pradesh Fisheries Minister and Nishad party chief Sanjay Nishad, who has been served a warrant by a Gorakhpur court in connection with a 2015 case connected to an agitation, has said that he is ready to go to jail for the rights of his community. Reacting to the...
Gehlot’s rape remark kicks up row
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot landed in a fresh trouble on Sunday for his remark, that murder cases after rape have increased after the law providing death sentences for rape convicts came into force. While the remark triggered criticism with several politicians condemning the statement, the chief minister later...
BJP launches drive to woo minorities in Uttar Pradesh
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about reaching out to marginalised sections of minorities at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Working Committee meeting in Hyderabad, it was not without a vision. Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the BJP is not just wooing the majority community, but is...
Parliament ‘dysfunctional’, says Chidambaram
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said he was veering to the conclusion that Parliament has become “dysfunctional” and alleged that democracy is “gasping for breath” in India with almost all institutions tamed, emasculated or captured. He also said Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu “failed” to protect...
Dhankhar’s victory margin highest since 1997
National Democratic Alliance candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the 14th vice president of India as he defeated the Opposition’s candidate Margaret Alva. Dhankhar, who is the former West Bengal governor, secured 528 votes against Alva’s 182. His victory margin was the highest since 1997. The former Bengal governor...
Opposition parties see a new dawn for Congress in Bihar
The main opposition party in Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), believes that the latest actions against the Congress by the Central agencies will benefit the grand old party. According to the RJD, the BJP, which has given the slogan of “Congress Mukt Bharat” is itself providing space to the...
Modi says proud moment for India to have ‘kisan putra VP’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Jagdeep Dhankhar to congratulate him on his victory in the vice presidential election with resounding support across party lines, and said it was a proud moment for India to have a “kisan putra” (farmer’s son) as vice president. Soon after Dhankhar was...
Buzz over Mamata’s meeting with Modi in Delhi
A meeting between West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and prime minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday has triggered speculations about a possible rapprochement between the two. TMC has asserted the meeting was about dues on central government schemes like MGNREGA, and lack of financial aid during Covid...
Thackeray was ready to align with BJP sans Shinde
After a revolt in the Shiv Sena, party president Uddhav Thackeray was ready to align with the BJP in Maharashtra if the dissidents dumped rebel leader Eknath Shinde, a proposal that was unacceptable to rebel MLAs and the national saffron outfit, legislator Deepak Kesarkar claimed on Friday. Kesarkar, a...
ED searches Young Indian office in Kharge’s presence
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday searched the office of Congress-owned Young Indian in Delhi as part of the ongoing probe in the National Herald case. The searches, which lasted for more than six hours, were conducted in the presence of senior party leader Mallikarjun Kharge at the Herald...
SC asks EC to hold action on Shinde camp’s claim
The Supreme Court Thursday asked the Election Commission not to take any decision for now on the Eknath Shinde faction’s plea that it be considered the real Shiv Sena and granted the party poll symbol. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said it would take a...
RSS flays Rahul for ‘politicising’ Tiranga campaign
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) flayed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday for his comments that the Sangh is not supporting BJP’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign launched as part of the celebrations to mark 75 years of Independence. The RSS has also advised Rahul to not politicise the occasion....
Assam ‘hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism’, says Sarma
Meghalaya is on alert even as terror modules are being unearthed in Assam. It is keeping a close watch on movement to and from the state as it is proving to be a “hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism” as per chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma...
