Politics
No bar on PM’s meditation trip despite Cong objections
There is no bar under electoral law on the prime minister to undertake a meditation trip during elections, sources in the know said on Wednesday, amid the Congress’s opposition to Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to Kanyakumari’s ‘Dhyan Mandapam’ from May 30. The Congress on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister...
Modi accuses TMC of ‘vote jihad’ against backward class people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flayed the TMC government in West Bengal for ”snatching the rights of OBC youths” to facilitate its appeasement politics and “vote jihad”. Addressing an election rally in Barasat, Modi, without naming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, criticised her for questioning the judges...
Delhi Court summons Atishi in defamation case filed by BJP keader
The Rouse Avenue Court issued summons to Delhi Cabinet Minister Atishi in a defamation case filed by BJP leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor over her allegations that the Bharatiya Janata Party attempted to poach AAP MLAs by offering them ‘Rs 20-30 crores’ to join their party. The court directed the...
Prajwal booked on Munich to Bengaluru Friday midnight flight
Suspended JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna, who is facing sexual abuse charges, has booked a return flight ticket to Bengaluru from Munich on May 30, official sources said on Wednesday. According to sources in the Special Investigation Team, the 33-year-old grandson of JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda is expected...
Mani Shankar says IFS was ‘upper caste’ service
Congress leader and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar called the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) of yore an “upper caste” service, which he claimed is becoming more democratic now with the flavour of the country getting into it. Speaking at the launch of author Kallol Bhattacharjee’s “Nehru’s First Recruit” here...
Mamata to skip Kharge’s INDIA Bloc meeting on June 1
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the INDIA bloc meeting on June 1, as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) gears up for the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the state. Citing the ongoing elections and Cyclone Remal, which hit the state Sunday night and...
No question of allowing religion-based reservation: Nadda
BJP president J P Nadda said on Monday that there will be no reservation based on religion as long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party are in power. Accusing the opposition of planning to give reservation based on religion, he said, “It is clearly written in the...
Modi says ‘big fish facing the law’ in zero-tolerance policy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday talked about his government’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption and said that the BJP has focussed on policy-driven governance in the past 10 years. Bringing in the reference of “Khan Market Gang”, the Prime Minister attacked the Opposition for the “glorification of the corrupts”....
Cong leader says CM Mann living like a king
“Captain Amarinder Singh was genuinely feudal but Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is worse. He is living like a king with thousands of security men and misusing state choppers. He is totally disconnected with the people on the ground,” said Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira in an interview with News18...
Row over Mamata’s ‘End of Scriptures’ Remark
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has sparked a row ahead of the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. In a video of a campaign speech, she is purportedly seen talking about the end of religious scriptures such as the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bible, and Quran. The...
Akhilesh says Modi has lost confidence due to fear of loss
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost self-confidence and has been faltering in his speeches upon realising the BJP will not retain power at the Centre, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Sunday. He described the BJP’s allegation that if the INDIA bloc forms government at the Centre it...
Kejriwal seeks 7-day extension of interim bail
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an extension of his bail by 7 days on medical grounds. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) The plea said the chief minister is required to undergo some medical tests and for this purpose, the interim bail,...
Amit Shah blames Rahul for Cong ‘behaviour’ in parliament
Union home minister Amit Shah hit out at the Congress, especially targeting the party’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi, over its “disruptive behaviour” in Parliament. He said the grand old party has changed after the entry of the Gandhi scion and the “standard of politics” has dropped to an all-time...
Nitish Kumar’s faux pas about Modi’s return as CM
JD (U) president Nitish Kumar on Sunday wished another term as “chief minister” for Narendra Modi, who had ruled Gujarat prior to becoming the prime minister. The Bihar chief minister, who has of late been making news for goof-ups, made the faux pas at an election rally on the...
Yogi warns harassers of women about ‘Yamraaj’
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said if anybody dares to harass women and businessmen in the state, ”Yamraaj” would be waiting for that person at the next crossroads. At an election rally in Ghazipur, he said the gangsters who once flouted the law openly, are being...
Jaishankar slams ‘international Khan Market gang’
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday slammed the Western media and called the anti-India ecosystem the “international Khan Market gang”. “In the country today, there is a certain thought process, or entitlement process for which the metaphor of ‘Khan Market Gang’ is a very good description. I want...
Modi accuses Cong of backing Muslim Shariah law
Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress on Friday for extending their support to Islamic law Sharia under the guise of the Muslim Personal law. He also pressed on the need to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a common set of laws that would cover customary laws across...
Kejriwal rejects Swati Maliwal’s allegations in assault case
Amid the ongoing probe into the allegations levelled against Arvind Kejriwal’s close aide Bibhav Kumar by AAP MP Swati Maliwal, the Delhi Chief Minister on Saturday maintained his silence on the issue and said that he wasn’t present when the incident happened. Kejriwal further clarified his stance stating that...
