IPA Webdesk
Bihar parties launch campaign for 2024 polls
Bihar will witness a major show of strength between the ruling Mahagathbandhan and opposition NDA today as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP’s principal strategist, criss-cross the state as they campaign for their respective political fronts. Kumar will hold a joint rally of...
Khera says Cong will continue to protect democratic principles
“Nobody can scare us, we are fearless” and will continue to protect democratic principles, Congress leader Pawan Khera said on Friday, a day after his arrest and interim bail in connection with an FIR over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Khera, who reached here to participate...
Pawar blames BJP for communal colour in political discourse
Ahead of the Kasba Peth and Chinchwad assembly bypolls in Pune district, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party gives a communal colour to the political discourse when it is not confident of winning. Talking to reporters here, the senior NCP leader said...
Cong, BJP spar over Pawan Khera’s arrest
A political furore followed Congress leader Pawan Khera’s arrest at Delhi airport on Thursday, after he was deplaned from a flight to Raipur where he was going to attend the party’s plenary session. After its national spokesperson’s arrest, the Congress accused the government of reducing India’s democracy to “Hitlar-shahi” and “dictatorship”....
Cong says steering committee to decide on CWC poll
The Congress on Thursday said all preparations are in place for holding the CWC polls in case the steering committee decides in favour of having the elections for seats in the party’s top decision-making body. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the party president Mallikarjun Kharge-led steering committee will...
US nominates ex-Mastercard Ajay Banga as World Bank chief
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington is nominating former Mastercard Chief Executive Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, after its current chief David Malpass announced plans to step down early. The development lender has just started accepting candidate nominations in a process set to run until...
Fadnavis threatens to expose Pawar over 2019 swearing-in
“Only half the truth about the early morning swearing-in ceremony is out as yet. More will come. I will bring the entire truth out,” Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told reporters on Thursday. The statement assumes significance against the background of the recent statement by Nationalist Congress Party...
India abstains from UN vote on ‘lasting peace’ in Ukraine
India abstained in the UN General Assembly on Thursday on a resolution that underscored the need to reach as soon as possible a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine in line with the principles of the UN Charter. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the draft resolution, put forward...
Setback to OPS as SC upholds EPS as ‘single leader’ of AIADMK
In a set back to O Paneerselvam(OPS) in the cases related to AIDAMK leadership row, the Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the order of the Madras High Court division bench that had restored former chief minister E Palaniswami as AIADMK’s single leader. Palaniswami, or EPS, was elected as AIADMK’s...
Kejriwal, Lt Governor fight over law & order situation
A war of words broke out between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena over the law and order situation in the national capital on Twitter on Wednesday. Kejriwal said that the law and order situation in Delhi had deteriorated a lot in the last one...
