Politics
Sidhu calls PM Imran ‘bade bhai’, draws BJP fire
After his pilgrimage at theGurdwara Kartarpur Sahib on Saturday, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu addressed Pakistan Prime Minister, his friend since cricket days, as his “elder brother”. Sidhu, who has been repeatedly credited by PM Khan for the idea of the corridor, reached Kartarpur Sahib three days after the...
Repeal of farm laws seen throwing Punjab polls wide open
The sudden announcement to repeal the three farm laws by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened up interesting possibilities in the political landscape of Punjab with state assembly elections just a few months away. Until this morning, before the PM addressed the nation, the only issue that had been...
Channi promises memorial for farmers agitation
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of repealing farm laws as “much delayed but welcome step” and also promised to construct a memorial in the name of farmers’ agitation in the state. Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided...
Buzz of Varun Gandhi switch to TMC ahead of Mamata visit
After the assembly elections and a series of bypolls in West Bengal this year, several leaders from the Congress and the BJP have left and joined the victorious Trinamool Congress. And speculation has started on whether Varun Gandhi may be added to the list in the near future. Trinamool Congress...
Modi’s tactical retreat on farm laws seen bringing rich dividends
The repeal of the three farm laws as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday has two big messages — that the government has put “national interest” above all and that it “listens to the farmers”, be it withdrawing the controversial land acquisition ordinance in 2015 or the...
Cong drops Azad from disciplinary action panel
Senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is part of Congress’s G23 group of ‘dissenters’, has been dropped from the party’s disciplinary action committee after president Sonia Gandhi reconstituted the panel. Besides the former Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Gandhi also dropped former Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and...
Owaisi announces stir for Muslim reservation in Maharashtra
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said his party will stage agitations across Maharashtra to demand reservations for Muslims in the state. Owaisi spoke to reporters after attending a conference on the present condition of Muslims in Maharashtra organised by Dua Foundation and the Centre...
Priyanka’s aide, two others booked for ‘snooping’
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s personal secretary, Sandeep Singh, and two other party leaders, Shiv Pandey and Yogesh Kumar Dixit, have been booked for alleged assault and snooping on a house at 7 Mall Avenue in state capital Lucknow. The FIR was lodged at Hussainganj police station on...
U.S. weighs diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
WASHINGTON: The United States is considering not sending a diplomatic delegation to the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, to protest China’s human rights practices, five sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Governments typically send a high-ranking delegation of diplomats to opening ceremonies in a...
BJP has forgotten key lesson of inclusivity: Tharoor
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday criticised the BJP government for having “forgotten the key lesson of inclusivity”. Speaking at the launch of his book, ‘Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry’, Tharoor said that it was a flaw of the parliamentary system that “creates opportunity for those who are...
SC moved against extension of CBI, ED tenures
Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against two ordinances brought out by the Centre under which the tenure of directors of the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate can now be extended by up to three years after the mandated term of two years. The...
Congress veteran Yoganand Shastri joins NCP
Veteran Congress leader and former Delhi assembly speaker Yoganand Shastri joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday, and was made its city unit president. Shastri came into the NCP fold in the presence of party chief Sharad Pawar. ”It was not that easy to work there (in the Congress)....
TDP loses municipal polls in Naidu’s home constituency
The unprecedented ‘Jagan’ wave, as it is being termed, continues in the State of Andhra Pradesh as the total tally of the YSRCP gone up to a staggering 98 out of 100 urban local bodies. Earlier, the party had won 86 out of 87 ULBs that went to the...
Rahul moves Bombay HC to quash defamation case over PM comment
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday moved a petition before the Bombay High Court seeking quashing of the defamation case filed against him by a BJP supporter for the former’s “commander-in-thief” remark targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The complainant Mahesh Shrishrimal had stated that this remark was made by...
Chaos in Bengal Assembly over liquor price cut
BJP MLAs staged a walkout in the West Bengal assembly on Wednesday after Speaker Biman Banerjee refused to admit a series of adjournment motions moved by the opposition party over a host of issues, including the reduction in duty on liquor while ignoring taxes on fuel. Reading out one...
Power-packed day of Yogi, Priyanka, Akhilesh campaigns
It is set to be a power-packed day for Uttar Pradesh as various political party leaders hold key events in the state today ahead of the 2022 elections. While UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Jhansi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be in Chitrakoot, and Samajwadi party...
Mohan Bhagwat calls for value-based family system
Expressing concern over non-transition of ‘family values and belief systems from one generation to another in today’s fast life’, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat has stressed for ‘value-based family system’. He primarily emphasised on strengthening the family through ‘values’ and ‘beliefs’ and understanding each other’s feelings...
Akhilesh keeps Shivpal waiting on alliance
The Yadav clan, one of the biggest political families in the country, will come together on November 22 to celebrate the 82nd birthday of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. While the occasion will serve as a family reunion for estranged uncle and nephew Shivpal Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav,...
