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Yogi suspends top officials, ministers on field duty
Yogi Adityanath has swung into action soon after taking oath as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second consecutive term. Taking strict action against officials, CM Yogi has suspended district magistrate Sonbhadra TK Shibu and Ghaziabad SSP on the charges of corruption and laxity. Not just the...
US says India’s Russia talks ‘deeply disappointing’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is travelling to Delhi today for talks. The U.S. and Australia criticized India for considering a Russian proposal that would undermine sanctions imposed by America and its allies, showing a deepening rift between the emerging security partners as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to...
UK foreign minister in Delhi for Ukraine diplomatic push
British foreign minister Liz Truss will visit India on Thursday as part of a “wider diplomatic push” on the war in Ukraine, her office said, a trip which coincides with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov travelling to the country. India has frustrated Western allies by refusing to condemn Russia’s...
Shivpal meets Yogi after fall-out with Akhilesh
Shivpal Yadav, the estranged uncle of Akhilesh Yadav who had allied himself with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the polls, today met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for what he described as a “courtesy visit”. The two had a 30-minute meeting, sources said. Though no details of the discussions were...
MK Stalin on 3-day Delhi trip, to call on Modi, Amit Shah
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin who will be on a three-day visit to New Delhi starting Thursday, will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for discussions on the financial allocation for the projects in Tamil Nadu, share of the state in Central taxes...
BJP draws roadmap for Karnataka 2023
Riding on the wave of victory in four of the five state assemblies, the central leadership of the BJP has now turned their focus towards Karnataka, which is expected to go to polls in 2023. Union home minister Amit Shah’s visit to the southern state is being seen as...
After hijab, it is turn of halal in Karnataka
With some right wing groups now giving a call to boycott ‘Halal’ meat, BJP national general secretary CT Ravi likened Halal food with ‘economic jehad’. For the past few days, there was a flurry of messages on social media appealing to Hindus to shun Halal meat, especially after Ugadi,...
Naveen Patnaik says no thoughts yet on President
Odisha chief minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik, who is currently on a three-day visit to New Delhi, on Tuesday said the party had no thoughts on the presidential elections for the moment. “There is still time for the presidential elections… so no thoughts on...
Akhilesh sacks members for defying party in Council poll
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav expelled party members including former MLC Kailash Singh, former District Panchayat President of Ghazipur Vijay Yadav and others for opposing the party during the MLC election in Ghazipur. Meanwhile, Yadav on Tuesday held a meeting with leaders of party allies Apna Dal (K), Suheldev...
Five shot dead in Tel Aviv suburb, IS claims responsibility
A suspected Arab gunman killed at least five people in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday before he was fatally shot, the national ambulance service said, in the latest of a string of deadly attacks in Israel. Amateur video broadcast on Israeli television stations showed a man dressed in...
Govt may dip into strategic oil reserves to calm prices
The government is committed to supporting initiatives for releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves for mitigating market volatility and calming the rise in global crude oil prices, the finance ministry said on Monday. At the same time, it’s closely monitoring global price movements of commodities like crude oil, gas,...
Banking services hit by strike, impact higher in east India
According to a report by news agency PTI, banking services were partially impacted on Monday as a section of bank employees did not report for duty. Some bank branches, particularly in cities with a strong trade union movement, did very limited over-the-counter public dealings such as cash deposits and withdrawals....
Yogi approves ministerial staff allocation through lottery
The ministers in the Uttar Pradesh government have been allotted staff and rooms through a computerised lottery software this time by the secretariat administration after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave the nod for a more transparent and digital system. The new system will also ensure that there is 20...
BJP looking for a Brahmin chief for UP as replacement
With Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh joining the Yogi Adityanath cabinet, the ruling party is now contemplating nominating a new state unit chief. Sources said that in keeping with the ‘one man, one post’ rule, the party will ask Singh to step down and is likely to...
JD(U) leader shot dead in Patna’s Danapur area
A senior JD(U) leader and vice president of Nagar Parishad was shot dead in Patna’s Danapur locality by unidentified assailants on Monday evening. The assailants came on the bike and opened fire at JD-U leader Deepak Kumar Mehta outside his home. He was walking outside the home after dinner....
Leaders claim participation of 20 cr workers in Bharat bandh
The two-day nationwide strike, called for by a joint forum of central trade unions to protest against central government policies has evoked mixed response, with some states like Kerala reporting complete shutdown while life in the metros went on without much disruption. Amarjeet Kaur, All Indian Trade Union Congress...
Assam CM slams Kejriwal over Kashmir Files remarks
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday slammed his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal over his remarks on ‘The Kashmir Files’ and asked him not to be “anti-Hindu” stating the latter has no right to humiliate the society. Kejriwal, in his speech in the Delhi Assembly, had accused the...
Row over Amit Shah’s ‘good news’ to Chandigarh staff
Political parties in Punjab hit out at the central government after Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Chandigarh administration employee’s service conditions will be aligned to that of the central civil services. AAP, the ruling party in Punjab and opposition parties including the Congress and Akali Dal...
