Politics
Sonia calls meeting to prepare for organisational polls
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting of party general secretaries and state in-charges on March 26 to discuss organisational elections, the party’s membership drive and the current political situation besides planning agitational programmes. Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal will chair the meeting at the party...
Uddhav govt move for 300 MLA flats under fire
Mumbai is a city where even if one manages to get a job, it’s difficult to get a house to live in. The wish of millions in this metropolis to have their own house is a dream that not always gets fulfilled. Now, a decision by the state government...
Eyes on deputy CMs, Muslim induction in Yogi ministry
PM Modi, senior BJP leaders including CMs from other states, and dignitaries from across different fields will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the second Yogi Adityanath government at Lucknow stadium on Friday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who attended the BJP MLAs’ meeting as an observer, said the party’s...
TMC demands Governor’s removal
The incident of Birbhum massacre was taken up by members of the Parliament in Lok Sabha on Thursday as leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress traded barbs at each in and outside the floor of the House. Meanwhile, in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took...
Mann promises crackdown on corruption
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in their first meeting after he was sworn in on March 16. Riding a wave for change, the Aam Aadmi Party won 92 seats in the 117-member state assembly in the recently held polls. Mann met Modi...
Key BJP meeting in Lucknow to finalise Yogi 2.0 govt
A key BJP meeting is slated to take place in Lucknow on Thursday to discuss the formation of Yogi 2.0 government in Uttar Pradesh. Sources said that formal approval for re-election of Yogi Adityanath for the post of chief minister is expected in this meeting. Along with senior BJP...
BJP, Congress demand central intervention in Bengal
Arch-rivals Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are demanding the same thing in West Bengal. Both parties have urged for the imposition of Article 355 of the Constitution in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state amid recent violence. Congress’s Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury raised the issue in the House on...
Lalu Yadav shifted to AIIMS Delhi in air ambulance
Incarcerated Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad’s health condition has deteriorated and he has been shifted to AIIMS, New Delhi for better treatment, officials said on Tuesday. A medical board of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here referred him to AIIMS New Delhi, they said. “RJD...
Mamata says Governor’s comment on deaths has political overtone
Hours after West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar described the death of eight people at Rampurhat as horrific and claimed that the state is in the grip of a culture of violence and lawlessness, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that his comments have political overtones. In a letter to Dhankhar,...
After Azad, Sonia now meets Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari
Days after meeting Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met senior party leaders Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari to discuss the proposal mooted by the disgruntled G-23 group. Sonia Gandhi in her effort to put a united face is reaching out the dissidents in the party...
KCR ropes in Prashant Kishor ahead of 2023 Telangana polls
Ending months of speculation, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday formally announced that he is working with political strategist Prashant Kishor ahead of the assembly elections to be held next year. Rao, popularly known as KCR, said that Kishor will be instrumental in bringing in a new...
BJP decides to go with incumbents in all four states
The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to reward the winning chief ministers in the recent assembly polls by giving them another term. The decision is an effort to keep the morale of the state units high, say sources. Even Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has been backed for...
Sharad Yadav merges his party with RJD
Former Union minister and socialist leader Sharad Yadav merged his party Loktantrik Janata Dal with Rashtriya Janata Dal on Sunday, pitching for unity in opposition ranks to take on the BJP. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav welcomed the veteran leader, who had fought some of the keenest Lok Sabha poll...
AAP is new threat to Cong in Gujarat
At a Congress workshop in Gujarat last month, Rahul Gandhi delivered a pep talk: ‘Yes, we can do it’, he said. His speech was also inspired by the results of the previous Gujarat assembly elections when the Congress surprisingly gave the BJP a chase. But, this time around, a...
Abhishek Banerjee, wife to appear before ED in Delhi
TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife will be reaching Delhi on Sunday for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal, sources told News18. Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the national...
Mann clears 25,000 govt jobs in first decision
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday, in the first decision of his first Cabinet meeting, threw open 25,000 jobs in various state government departments, including 10,000 in Police Department. The decision to fill the 25,000 vacancies in various departments was taken in a Cabinet meeting chaired by...
Pramod Sawant seen set to continue as Goa CM
Caretaker Chief Minister Pramod Sawant will head the new BJP-led coalition government in Goa, two BJP MLAs said on Friday, putting an end to the speculation over the leadership following the prolonged delay in formation of a government in Goa after the February 14 polls. The government would be...
Shivpal blames ‘cunning’ BJP for SP alliance loss
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Friday claimed that the Samajwadi Party-led alliance lost the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly elections because of the dishonesty and cunningness of the BJP. He said the alliance has the backing of the people and it will face the challenges...
