Politics
RJD MLA claims Ramcharitmanas written in mosque
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Ritlal Yadav courted controversy after he claimed that the Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas was “written in a mosque”. Yadav, an MLA from Bihar’s Danapur, went a step further and advised everyone to “pick up the history books and check” that his point is correct. Yadav was addressing the media...
Nehru’s name erased from Memorial Museum and Library
Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Manish Tewari on Friday launched an indirect attack on the Centre, asking “those trying to erase Jawahar Lal Nehru’s contribution” to read ‘Discovery of India’ and ‘Glimpses of World History’. He added that legacies don’t get erased by renaming buildings. This reaction...
HC orders deployment of central forces for Bengal civic poll
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to requisition and deploy central forces across West Bengal for the July 8 panchayat elections in the state. The court noted that no appreciable steps have been taken ever since an order was passed by it on...
BJP slams Cong vote bank politics for opposition to UCC
The BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress over its remark on the Law Commission seeking public opinion on a uniform civil code, saying it has succumbed to pressure from “fundamentalists” and is opposing the move for vote bank politics. The BJP is committed towards the implementation of the uniform...
BJP, Cong copying Kejriwal’s ‘Delhi Model’, claims AAP
Aam Aadmi Party’s Madhya Pradesh unit president Rani Agarwal on Thursday said populist schemes being announced by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress ahead of state Assembly polls at the end of the year have been copied from Arvind Kejriwal’s “Delhi model”. The welfare schemes launched by Delhi...
Reading of Preamble mandatory in Karnataka schools, colleges
The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to make it mandatory for all schools and colleges, whether government, aided or private, to read the Preamble of the Constitution daily. It has also made it compulsory to have a portrait of the Preamble of the Constitution put up at all government...
Central move jeopardises Siddaramaiah’s grains scheme
Even though an election slugfest between the Congress and BJP is over in Karnataka, but a power tussle is still on over the implementation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s ambitious project ‘Anna Bhagya’. Under this scheme, 10 kg of food grains will be given to every member of a Below...
Akhilesh says BJP sees most UP seats as falling in ‘red zone’
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that the BJP “conceding” most of its Lok Sabha seats in UP being in the “red zone” was an effect of the power of “red” – a colour his party identifies with. The SP chief made the remark in a tweet...
ED-arraigned minister has a highly controversial past
V Senthil Balaji, the minister of electricity and prohibition and excise in Tamil Nadu, has often been known as controversy’s child. His dramatic arrest by the Enforcement Directorate comes as part of an ongoing investigation into a job racket dating back to his time as transport minister between 2011...
Opposition unites against ED action against TN minister
Several Opposition leaders condemned the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searches against Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji, slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) misusing central agencies. Tamil Nadu CM and DMK chief MK Stalin said the BJP leadership is enacting “politics of intimidation”. BJP’s bid to intimidate through backdoor...
High drama over ED arrest of Senthil Balaji
High drama unfolded outside a government hospital in Chennai as Enforcement Directorate (ED) took Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji into custody in the wee hours of Wednesday. The minister broke down as the offices picked him up. Balaji has been admitted to the intensive care unit after he...
Tamil Nadu BJP chief, AIADMK in wordy duel over Jayalalithaa
Even as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIADMK) district secretaries passed a resolution against K Annamalai for “tarnishing the reputation of revolutionary leader and Idhaya Deivam (goddess in the heart, as Jayalalithaa is fondly called by her followers) in a planned manner”, the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata...
Anurag Thakur links ex-Twitter boss disclosures to elections
As Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey made some sensational allegations against the Indian government, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday refuted the claims and said that foreign forces get active to “vitiate the democratic process and build tension” in the country as elections approach. The BJP leader’s...
Newspaper ad projecting Shinde irks BJP
Is all not well between the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance in Maharashtra? There’s one more reason why the speculation is buzzing the state’s political circles. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Tuesday placed a full-page advertisement in several leading newspapers in Maharashtra titled ‘Modi...
BJP complains about poor show by Shiv Sena ministers
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s high command in a recent meeting with Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde expressed its displeasure over the working styles and performances of a few Shiv Sena ministers, sources told News18 on Monday. This, they added, has increased tensions in Shinde’s camp and also the distance...
Unease in Haryana’s ruling BJP-JJP coalition over wrestlers stir
Both chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his deputy Dushyant Chautala may have vouched for the continuation of the BJP-JJP government in Haryana, but there is an undeniable unease in the relationship between the two parties as insiders believe that both could not just explore breaking ties in the...
DK approaches high court against prosecution sanction
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday filed an appeal before the High Court against the dismissal of his petition by a single judge in which he had challenged the sanction accorded by the state government to the CBI for prosecuting him. A division bench comprising Chief...
Jagan does not trust BJP, foresees TDP’s demise
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSRCP president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed his distrust towards the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and speculated the eventual shutdown of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Addressing a gathering during the launch of the fourth phase of the Jagannanna Vidya Kanuka kits distribution...
