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Cong predicts end of ‘puppet CM’ Bommai’s innings soon
Referring to the current political developments in Karnataka and the BJP, the Congress in a series of tweets took jibes at the state government and said that the state appears set to see a third Chief Minister after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Bengaluru last week. The...
Trinamool in damage-control mode over ‘tainted’ leaders
Eighteen days after the arrest of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee in a teacher recruitment scam, the rage over the issue among the common people is still bubbling. The state’s ruling Trinamool Congress though appears to be distancing itself from the matter and on July 29 it...
BJD, Cong reject Shah’s claim of BJP govt in Odisha next
The Congress and BJD on Tuesday rejected Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion that the BJP will form the next government in Odisha. During a visit to the state on Monday, the senior BJP leader expressed confidence that the party will form government at the Centre and in Odisha...
Nitish Kumar resigns citing ‘consensus’ to ditch alliance
Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced he has submitted his resignation as chief minister of Bihar’s NDA government hours after he said the JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP has ended. In his first statement following his meeting with Governor Fagu Chauhan, Kumar said the decision to sever ties with NDA...
BJP says Nitish betrayed people of Bihar, readies plan
Dumped yet again by Nitish Kumar in Bihar, the BJP is readying its arsenal against the new alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress again joining forces, and will attack the new government on the issue of corruption, law and order and abuse of the public mandate in the 2020...
No woman in 20-member Maharashtra cabinet
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member ministry 41 days after taking oath as the CM by inducting 18 ministers, nine each from his rebel Shiv Sena group and the BJP. The list doesn’t include a woman, a move being panned by politicians and women’s rights...
Parliament adjourned sine die 4 days before schedule
The Parliament’s Monsoon Session ended on Monday, four days before its scheduled completion, with both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die. The session, which began on July 18, was slated to go on till August 12. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, before adjourning the ninth...
8 Cong MLAs to defect in a month, claims Assam BJP man
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) four-time Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Prasanta Phukan of Assam claimed on Monday that eight Congress MLAs will join the ruling BJP within a month. An event to facilitate this will be held soon, he said. Prasanta Phukan, who represents the Dibrugarh constituency in Upper...
Badal warns party members against airing views outside
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday set up a five-member disciplinary committee and also appealed to party members to only use the party platform to express their views. The committee will be headed by senior Akali leader Sikandar Singh Maluka. The other members are Sharanjt Singh Dhillon, Virsa...
China seeks urgent meeting after Lanka bows to Indian pressure
China’s embassy in Colombo has sought an urgent meeting with senior Sri Lankan authorities after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking of a high-tech Chinese research vessel at the strategic Hambantota port over which India raised concerns, sources said. The Chinese space and satellite tracking research vessel...
Akhilesh to start Tiranga campaign with padayatra
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, will embark on a padayatra from Jhauva village of Tirwa Tehsil in Kannauj district as the party starts its tiranga campaign from Tuesday on the occasion of Kranti Diwas. Yadav will also interact with the families...
UP minister says he is ready to go to jail for his community
Uttar Pradesh Fisheries Minister and Nishad party chief Sanjay Nishad, who has been served a warrant by a Gorakhpur court in connection with a 2015 case connected to an agitation, has said that he is ready to go to jail for the rights of his community. Reacting to the...
Gehlot’s rape remark kicks up row
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot landed in a fresh trouble on Sunday for his remark, that murder cases after rape have increased after the law providing death sentences for rape convicts came into force. While the remark triggered criticism with several politicians condemning the statement, the chief minister later...
Speculation over Nitish Kumar walking out of BJP alliance
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called a meeting of all Janata Dal (United) MLAs and MPs on Tuesday, leading to speculation his growing friction with the BJP may come to a head. Chief among the many reasons why Kumar is upset with the BJP, which is an alliance...
BJP launches drive to woo minorities in Uttar Pradesh
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about reaching out to marginalised sections of minorities at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Working Committee meeting in Hyderabad, it was not without a vision. Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the BJP is not just wooing the majority community, but is...
Maiden launch of new ISRO rocket runs into trouble
The Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, said it is “analysing the data” on the launch of its smallest rocket, SSLV-D1, which lifted off from the spaceport in Sriharikota this morning, carrying an earth observation satellite and a student satellite. “SSLV-D1 performed as expected at all stages. In the...
Parliament ‘dysfunctional’, says Chidambaram
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said he was veering to the conclusion that Parliament has become “dysfunctional” and alleged that democracy is “gasping for breath” in India with almost all institutions tamed, emasculated or captured. He also said Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu “failed” to protect...
Dhankhar’s victory margin highest since 1997
National Democratic Alliance candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the 14th vice president of India as he defeated the Opposition’s candidate Margaret Alva. Dhankhar, who is the former West Bengal governor, secured 528 votes against Alva’s 182. His victory margin was the highest since 1997. The former Bengal governor...
