Politics
Son claims Mukul Roy ‘untraceable’ since Monday
The family members of senior TMC leader Mukul Roy have claimed he is “untraceable” since late Monday evening. The former railway minister’s son Subhragshu told PTI that his father was “untraceable” and ”missing” since late Monday evening. “Till now I am unable to contact my father. He is untraceable,”...
Gujarat AAP leader held for remarks against BJP leaders
Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Italia was on Monday arrested in connection with a case registered in September last year for allegedly using defamatory words against state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and was granted bail. The case was lodged in Umra police station in Surat on...
Kejriwal summoned in Modi degree defamation case
A court in Ahmedabad has issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh in a criminal defamation complaint for their alleged sarcastic and derogatory statements against the Gujarat University over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree. The court of additional...
BJP, Cong spar over Satyapal Malik’s revelations
The Pulwama attack has once again become a center of political mayhem, after former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik blamed the 2019 incident on “security lapse.” In an interview with The Wire, Malik claimed that the Home Ministry, under Rajnath Singh at the time, denied a request by...
Minister claims BJP will win 350-plus seats in 2024
Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey has claimed that the BJP will win more than 350 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 general elections, with Narendra Modi becoming prime minister for another term. Choubey, who was in Ranchi on Sunday to highlight various initiatives taken by the public distribution and environment...
Rahul repeats his Modi-Adani charge in Kolar speech
The former Congress president Rahul Gandhi started his Kolar speech focusing on the four big Congress promises in the elections and raised the 40 percent corruption charge against the Basavaraj Bommai-led government – these local issues are working for the Congress and received much applause from the crowd. But...
Kejriwal indicates possibility of arrest by CBI for BJP
In a video message released ahead of his appearing before the CBI, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said the central probe agency will arrest him if the BJP has instructed it to do so. “They are very powerful, they can send anyone to jail. If BJP has ordered...
Priyanka accuses Yogi govt of playing with rule of law
Criminals should be given the harshest punishment but it should be according to the law of the land and playing with the rule of law for any political purpose is not right for democracy, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Sunday, a day after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and...
Rahul in Kolar where he made Modi surname remark
After postponing the trip thrice, Congress leader and disqualified MP Rahul Gandhi is all set to visit Kolar to attend the ‘Jai Bharat’ event at the very same place he made the ‘Modi surname’ remark that led to him losing his membership from Lok Sabha. According to the Congress...
BJP says Kejriwal will soon join Jain, Sisodia in jail
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was quick to launch an attack against Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor, soon after CBI summoned him for questioning on April 16 in connection with the liquor policy scam case. His questioning comes in the same case in which...
Sanjay Raut backs Yogi on encounters to end mafia raj
Backing Yogi Adityanath over the encounter of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said if the Uttar Pradesh chief minister wants to end mafia raj then there should be no question of caste and religion. Criminals and terrorists have no caste or...
MP scheme for free pilgrimage for senior citizens
The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh will be taking some senior citizens in the state on free pilgrimages by air under its existing scheme and the exercise will start from May 21, months before the Assembly polls in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state. This move is...
Karnataka ex-deputy CM joins Cong after denial of ticket
Former deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who announced his decision to resign from the primary membership of the BJP after being denied a ticket to contest in the May 10 Assembly elections, joined the Congress on Friday. He would now be the grand old party’s candidate in Athani...
Pawar meets Kharge, Rahul in ‘process of uniting Opposition
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi in the national capital. Congress general secretary KC Venugopal was also present in the meeting. Pawar’s meeting comes as several opposition leaders including Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Tamil Nadu CM MK...
Kharge says branding people ‘anti-national’ dangerous
On the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday took a swipe at the government, saying the “culture of forcing silence” and branding people “anti-nationals” is a dangerous trend that will finish our democracy and destroy the Constitution. In his message on Ambedkar Jayanti,...
Akhilesh charges Yogi govt with ‘fake’ encounters
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has said that questions have been raised over “fake” encounters in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP-ruled state has received maximum NHRC notices on such actions, remarks coming in the backdrop of death of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad in a gunfight. Speaking here on...
Confused NCP awaits next Pawar move to avert crisis
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which has lost recognition as a national party, is currently in a state of confusion. From senior party leaders to first-time MLAs, all are anxious, even as informal meetings are underway to brainstorm. As the current government of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde completes...
Nitish Kumar meets Kejriwal to discuss Opposition unity
After meeting Congress leadership, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Nitish Kumar as part of his efforts to bring other opposition parties together to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “We will unite as many opposition parties as...
