Politics
Priyanka urges Centre to declare HP havoc as national disaster
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday appealed to the Centre to declare the natural calamity in Himachal Pradesh as a national disaster so that those affected can get immediate relief. About 120 people have died in rain-related incidents in the state this month while a total of 239...
Bihar Raj Bhavan, govt tussle escalates
The ongoing tussle between the Nitish Kumar government and the Raj Bhavan further escalated with the Bihar education department inviting applications for the post of vice-chancellors (VC) in different universities days after Governor (Chancellor) Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar’s secretariat issued a similar advertisement. The chancellor’s secretariat earlier invited applications for...
Leaders across party lines hail ISRO for Chandrayaan success
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders across party lines hailed ISRO after Chandrayaan-3’s successful lunar landing. PM said India’s successful Moon mission is not just India’s alone. as this success belongs to all of humanity. The Prime Minister said it was a historic day for the country’s space sector and...
BJP slams Mamata’s ‘brazenly communal’ stipend to Imams
A new controversy seems to be rearing its head in West Bengal after chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced increase in the stipend of Imams and Brahmin priests, with BJP attacking the Trinamool Congress for the pay disparity between the two even as experts explained the logic behind the move....
Swadeshi may be theme song of BJP for 2024
In 2019, Narendra Modi went to the electorate seeking another term, harping on the much talked about Balakot strike in which the Indian Air Force went deep inside Pakistan to mount an aerial attack on February 26, 2019. The air strike — India’s response to the Pulwama attack —...
Lalu sees son as CM as Nitish takes up INDIA convenorship
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav in a significant statement told News18 that there could be many conveners for the opposition INDIA bloc. The former Bihar chief minister was visiting his ancestral Phulwaria village in Gopalganj district with wife Rabri Devi after about seven years to meet...
Murmu hails Goa’s common civil code as model for country
President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday hailed the “common civil code” in Goa, saying that it was a matter of pride for the state and a good example for the country. She also noted that women enjoy equal status in the state’s cosmopolitan culture. The president, who arrived in Goa...
Cong promises caste census, Ravidas varsity in MP
The Congress will conduct a caste census in Madhya Pradesh after winning the assembly polls and establish a university in the name of Sant Ravidas, said party president Mallikarjun Kharge, accusing the regime at the Centre of wishing to change the Constitution. He was addressing a public rally in...
Union minister rakes up Nuh-type Bihar incident
Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday compared an incident of stone pelting on a religious procession in Bihar to the July 31 violence in Nuh in Haryana. Singh referred to reports of stone pelting on a procession on Nagpanchami in Bihar’s Motihari on Monday. “A religious procession...
Karnataka to replace NEP with new education policy
The Congress-led Karnataka government will scrap the NEP adopted by the previous BJP government and will be introducing a new state education policy that ensures “quality education,” Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar announced on Monday. Speaking to the media, Shivakumar said, the Karnataka government recently conducted a meeting with...
