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Margaret Alva is opposition VP candidate
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Margaret Alva is the Opposition’s joint candidate for the vice presidential election, NCP leader Sharad Pawar announced on Sunday. The announcement came a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda said West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will be NDA’s...
Row over garbage cart with PM, Yogi pictures
A man was seen pushing a garbage cart in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, a scene nothing too out of the ordinary but for the framed photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the pile of discarded items. The municipal corporation employee lost his job after...
CJI Ramana’s bench to hear pleas on Maha crisis on July 20
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde will once again go up against Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as the Supreme Court — under a bench headed by Chief Justice Of India NV Ramana — hears pleas seeking disqualification of rebel Sena MLAs. The SC bench will also have Justices Krishna...
Centre calls all-party meet on Lanka crisis
An all-party meeting on the turmoil in Sri Lanka has been called on Tuesday evening, with briefings by Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr S Jaishankar, the government said on Sunday, following appeals by Tamil Nadu-based parties to intervene in the crisis. At a meeting of parties ahead of...
Cong refutes BJP charge of plot against Modi’s Gujarat govt
The Congress on Saturday strongly refuted the allegations against veteran party leader Ahmed Patel that he had hatched a conspiracy to destabilise the Gujarat government, led by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, after the 2002 riots. While opposing the bail application of activist Teesta Setalvad, the Special Investigation Team (SIT)...
Sinha says Nitish did not even respond to messages
Opposition’s Presidential poll candidate Yashwant Sinha on Friday said that he had repeatedly tried to contact Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during his campaign but the latter refused to talk to him. Sinha was in Patna during his presidential election campaign and all the opposition parties including the RJD,...
Plea for 75 small states to mark 75 years of independence
Maharashtra Congress leader and former Katol MLA Ashish Deshmukh on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing him to form 75 smaller states as a gift to the nation on its 75th anniversary of independence. Deshmukh, who has been pitching for a separate Vidarbha state for...
OPS seeks sealing of party Hqs until leadership issue settled
The AIADMK headquarters in the city can continue to remain under lock and seal till time the issue is resolved by appropriate civil court, the senior advocate representing ousted party leader O Panneerselvam (OPS) told the Madras High Court on Friday. When the two criminal original petitions from party...
Court upholds dissent while granting bail to Zubair
A Delhi court while granting bail to Alt News fact-checker Mohammed Zubair in a 2018 tweet case on Friday said Hinduism is one of the oldest and most tolerant religions and rejected the prosecution’s argument that Zubair’s use of “Before 2014” and “After 2014” in a tweet had hurt...
BJP says no word banned but would only be expunged
The BJP took on the opposition, especially the Congress, over the issue of unparliamentary words on Thursday and said it is trying to create an issue where none exists. Opposition parties have slammed the government, saying the new list of unparliamentary words is meant to gag the criticism of...
Group seeks temporary bar on entry to Mathura’s Shahi Idgah
The leader of a right-wing group has asked the Mathura district administration to bar everyone from entering the Shahi Idgah till August 17 and said otherwise its members will recite the Hanuman Chalisa there. Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha president Rajyashree Chaudhary has said the district administration should bar everyone...
Sinha alleges ‘Operation Kamal’ even in president poll
Opposition parties’ joint Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Thursday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of indulging in horse trading in the election for the country’s highest constitutional post and sought a probe into it. He claimed that the saffron party was carrying out ‘Operation Kamal’, under which...
1985 Air India bombing suspect shot dead In Canada: Report
An acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people was shot dead Thursday in an apparent targeted shooting in westernmost Canada, local media reported. Ripudaman Singh Malik, a one-time supporter of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement who was in 2005 acquitted in the Air India...
Row over top Patna cop comparing Popular Front with RSS
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manavjit Singh Dhillon courted controversy on Thursday when he compared extremist outfit Popular Front of India’s martial art training at its camps with the routine followed at branches of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The SSP made the comments a day after the arrest of...
Lok Sabha adds ‘corruption’, ‘dictatorial’ to unparliamentary words
Use of terms like ‘jumlajeevi‘, ‘baal buddhi‘, ‘Covid spreader’ and ‘Snoopgate’ and even commonly used words like ‘ashamed’, ‘abused, ‘betrayed’, ‘corrupt’, ‘drama’, ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘incompetent’ will henceforth be considered unparliamentary in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, according to a new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. The booklet...
BJP special focus on Sonia, SP bastions for 2024
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is known for its unique poll management, is now gearing up for 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The party is eyeing the 14 Lok Sabha seats that it had failed to win in 2019 general elections. The BJP will be having a special focus on...
Cong nationwide protest over ED summons to Sonia Gandhi
Congress leaders, in a meeting on Wednesday, decided to protest across the country against the BJP-led Central Government on July 21, the day Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in National Herald case. Another significant meeting has been called by the...
Kashmir situation likely to dominate monsoon session
The upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament will most likely discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and attacks on Kashmiri Pandits and migrants as most Members of Parliament have put up these questions before the home ministry. According to the list of questions, most MPs want to know about...
