Politics
Babul Supriyo security downgraded from ‘Z’ to ‘Y’ category
N: The Union Home Ministry reduced the security category of Babul Supriyo, BJP MP and former minister in the Cabinet through an order issued on Saturday. He has been moved from the ‘Z’ to ‘Y’ category. According to sources, the reduction in security has been done on the basis...
UP Assembly Speaker’s shocker on dressing ‘scantily’
Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit Sunday said if one could become great just by dressing scantily, then Bollywood actor “Rakhi Sawant would have become greater than Mahatma Gandhi”, drawing flak from social media users. He made the remarks at the ‘prabuddh varg sammelan’ (meeting of intellectuals) organised...
Bengal Congress leader takes U-turn on contesting
Days after announcing that Congress won’t contest the Samserganj assembly seat in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Congress leader Jaidur Rahman said that he has “changed his mind” and decided to fight the poll from the seat. Congress was, so far, absent in the bypolls to three assembly seats in...
Governor says Bengal finance commission continuation unconstitutional
Alleging that the Fourth State Finance Commission continued beyond its five-year tenure in violation of the Constitution, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday said members of the panel are “liable to return salary” and “all expenses need to be recovered as public money cannot be so squandered”. He...
Kejriwal promises unemployment allowance, job quota
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday promised to take big steps to end migration from Uttarakhand, assuring an unemployment allowance and an 80 per cent job quota for people of the state if his party comes to power in the next assembly elections. Making six promises, Kejriwal said every...
PDP to fight assembly elections, says Mehbooba
The PDP will fight the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, party president Mehbooba Mufti said on Sunday, ruling out an alliance with its erstwhile coalition partner the BJP. The former chief minister said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is far from normal which is evident from...
BJP raking up ‘outsider’ card, alleges Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday hit out at the BJP for opposing Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s directive to state police to keep a record of migrants coming here from other states, claiming the BJP was raking up the ‘outsider’ card with an eye on the Uttar...
Amarinder Singh’s replacement a planned move
The coup in Punjab Congress was planned and not sudden even though it came as a surprise to many in the state. The churning began around 15 days ago but the decision to replace Captain Amarinder Singh as Chief Minister was taken after an internal survey commissioned by the...
Cong’s SC unit resolution for Rahul Gandhi as party chief
: New Delhi, Sep 17: The Congress’ Scheduled Castes Department on Friday passed a resolution calling for senior leader Rahul Gandhi’s appointment as the president of the party. The resolution, which was passed at the national executive meeting of the SC Department, comes days after Indian Youth Congress, Delhi...
Sonowal, L Murugan BJP candidates for Rajya Sabha
: Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday released the list of two candidates for the Rajya Sabha bypolls- cabinet minister Sarbananda Sonowal and MOS L Murugan in Assam and Madhya Pradesh respectively. Sonowal is the union minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ayush. Murugan is the junior minister for...
Rolls Royce, cash, 5kg gold seized from ex-AIADMK mInister
: The DVAC (Directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption) wing conducted multiple raids at the properties of former AIADMK minister KC Veeramani on Thursday and seized crores worth of assets that included a range of luxury cars and assorted jewellery. More than 100 officials conducted raids at 30 locations including...
New Gujarat Cabinet dissolves caste, regional divide
With months to go for the Gujarat Assembly, the BJP on Thursday inducted 24 members, including 21 who debuted as ministers, into the four-day-old Bhupendra Patel-led ministry, discarding all ministers in the previous Vijay Rupani-led regime in Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s home state. The fresh inductions include two women and...
BJP lines up star campaigners for Didi’s constituency
As Bhabanipur gears up to witness high-voltage polling on September 30, the BJP has lined up dozens of star campaigners who will conduct door-to-door interactions, open air meetings and street plays from September 20-27 to ‘highlight the misrule, post poll violence’ of TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee. The bypoll will...
Yash Dasgupta named as Nusrat Jahan’s newborn son’s father
The birth certificate of TMC leader Nusrat Jahan’s new-born son names her rumoured partner Debashish Dasgupta, also known as Yash Dasgupta, as the father amid speculation over the child’s paternity. The certificate of Yishaan J Dasgupta lists Yash as the father and Nusrat as the mother and his date...
Punjab AAP denies remote-control from Delhi
In 2017, they had a strong start on their debut run but faltered at the finishing line. In the last four-and-a-half years, the AAP has witnessed some turbulent times, grappling with factionalism and absence of a strong local leadership. But as the 2022 assembly elections close in, the party...
Cycle yatras key part of Akhilesh’s poll campaign
Free Azam Khan campaign, cycle yatras across the state, nominating two women party workers on each booth, increasing voters on each booth and bringing them on the party’s side, a sustained reach-out to traders, backward class meetings and attempting a union of youth and farmers in its favour —...
AAP launching its poll campaign in Ayodhya today
: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh will kick-start their fourth ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Ayodhya on Tuesday. The party, which has declared its intention to contest all seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2022 on its own, said that...
Yogi makes slaughter house closures big poll plank
Yogi Adityanath government’s ‘strong action’ against cow slaughter and smuggling is set to become a major poll plank of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh to impress upon the voters that the Samajwadi Party had done nothing to check the illegal activities. This was a major poll promise of the...
