Politics
Bengal plans to remove Governor from chancellor’s post
West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu dropped a bombshell on Friday by making a statement that the State government is considering removing the ‘Governor’ and making ‘Chief Minister’ as the ‘Chancellor’ of all the Government-run Universities for better coordination. Addressing a press conference, Basu accused Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of...
Impressive Cong win in Chhattisgarh urban civic polls
The ruling Congress has registered a big victory in polls held in 15 urban bodies of Chhattisgarh, winning 174 of 300 wards for which counting has been completed, leaving behind the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with 89, a poll official said here on Thursday. The counting of votes polled...
Minister assails Rahul for ‘Hindu vs Hindutva’ remarks
Targeting Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks on Hindu and Hindutva, Union minister A Narayanaswamy has said the Congress leader is not a Hindu and makes such remarks whenever elections near. In remarks over the past few days, Gandhi has repeatedly sought to highlight the difference between Hindu...
Meghalaya Speaker approves merger of 12 Cong MLAs with TMC
Meghalaya Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh on Thursday recognised the merger of 12 Congress MLAs with All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). The decision was made on the petitions filed by Dr M Ampareen Lyngdoh for disqualification under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution. “After examining in detail all the 12 petitions...
Jharkhand CM’s sister-in-law on dharna against govt policies
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo Shibu Soren’s daughter-in-law and Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s sister-in-law and party MLA Sita Soren on Wednesday sat on a dharna at the gates of the assembly against the policies of her own government, causing a huge embarrassment to the ruling dispensation. The Jama...
BJP, Amarinder party to have joint manifesto
After sealing the pre-poll pact with the BJP, former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said the Punjab Lok Congress and BJP will have a common election manifesto for the 2022 Assembly elections. In an informal chat with media persons at his Siswan farmhouse, Captain Amarinder said...
Hacking of Instagram accounts of Priyanka Gandhi’s children to be probed
Within days of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi alleging that the Instragram accounts of her children were hacked in an apparent attempt by the government to snoop not just on politicians but their families, top sources in the IT Ministry told CNN-News18 that a suo motu complaint will be lodged...
Priyanka asks ‘sisters’ of UP to bring change
Congress General Secretary In-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in a tweet on Wednesday said that sisters of the state will bring change in UP politics. Quoting from the famous Amitabh Bachchan blockbuster ‘Deewar’ she said, “I have sisters who will bring change in politics.” She said that...
Ex-Punjab minister booked under drugs Act
Former Punjab minister and senior SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia was booked under the NDPS Act, triggering allegations of political vendetta from his party. A case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against him on the basis of a 2018 status report of a...
Mulayam’s photo with Mohan Bhagwat spices up UP politics
A photo of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has gone viral on social media, just ahead of the crucial elections in the politically crucial state and creating a buzz in UP politics. Two days after Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Akhilesh Yadav launched an...
TMC upbeat ahead of Kolkata civic poll results
The counting of votes for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election has begun with the opposition BJP alleging rigging and demanding a re-poll in all 144 wards. The KMC election witnessed sporadic incidents of violence on Sunday with a crude bomb hurled outside polling stations in the central part...
Punjab asks Centre to speed up sacrilege bills approval
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday wrote to the Centre, asking for obtaining presidential assent for two bills passed by the state Assembly in 2018 for ensuring stringent punishment for those involved in desecration incidents. Randhawa wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah for ensuring assent...
Opposition rejects Govt’s 4-party meet to resolve RS logjam
There is no resolution in sight for the stalemate in the Rajya Sabha over the suspension of 12 MPs as a united opposition on Sunday rejected the government’s outreach to resolve the logjam. Top sources in the opposition told PTI they will not attend the Monday morning meeting convened...
Bommai remark triggers rumours of his exit
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in an emotional address to the people of his constituency Shiggaon in this district said nothing is permanent in this world including posts and positions, fuelling speculation in some quarters about his possible exit. “Nothing is eternal in this world. This life itself is...
Sidhu sees plot to disturb Punjab peace
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday condemned the alleged sacrilege attempts at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and at a gurdwara in Kapurthala, saying conspiracies are being hatched to disturb peace in the state. He also said “deliberate and malicious acts” intended to outrage religious feelings...
Minister calls Sidhu ‘political mercenary’
A senior minister in the Channi government carried out an all-out attack on Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday, acusing him of creating divisions in the party. Upset by Sidhu’s remarks at a rally yesterday, Minister for Technical Education Rana Gurjeet Singh issued a hard-hitting statement against...
Another sacrilege incident in Punjab leads to uproar
Another sacrilege issue has come to light in Punjab after a man was beaten to death for an act of “desecration” in Darbar Sahib – the Golden Temple. A man hailing from Uttar Pradesh jumped golden grills inside the sanctum sanctorum, picked a sword and reached near the place...
RJD to launch protest against Bihar unemployment
Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Saturday hit out at the Nitish Kumar government for the “top to bottom” corruption in Bihar and said that the party will soon launch a state wide protest against growing unemployment. The leader of the opposition said RJD will also organize a...
