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Meghalaya Speaker approves merger of 12 Cong MLAs with TMC
Meghalaya Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh on Thursday recognised the merger of 12 Congress MLAs with All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). The decision was made on the petitions filed by Dr M Ampareen Lyngdoh for disqualification under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution. “After examining in detail all the 12 petitions...
Modi govt targets political rivals like never before
New Delhi: Action by Central agencies against the BJP government’s rivals and critics has witnessed a massive spike since the BJP-led government came to power in 2014, an NDTV analysis has found. Since 2014, Central agencies have targeted a whopping 570 of the government’s political rivals and critics...
Jharkhand CM’s sister-in-law on dharna against govt policies
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo Shibu Soren’s daughter-in-law and Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s sister-in-law and party MLA Sita Soren on Wednesday sat on a dharna at the gates of the assembly against the policies of her own government, causing a huge embarrassment to the ruling dispensation. The Jama...
Amazon sues ED for Future deal probe
NEW DELHI: Amazon.com Inc is taking Enforcement Directorate (ED) to court, seeking to quash an investigation into one of its 2019 deals, Reuters reported citing a court filing. ED has for months been probing Amazon’s $200 million investment in Future Group for suspected violations of foreign investment laws. The investment...
BJP, Amarinder party to have joint manifesto
After sealing the pre-poll pact with the BJP, former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said the Punjab Lok Congress and BJP will have a common election manifesto for the 2022 Assembly elections. In an informal chat with media persons at his Siswan farmhouse, Captain Amarinder said...
Haryana lowers drinking age
Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Wednesday amended its Excise Act paving the way for lowering of the legal age for consumption of liquor, its purchase or sale from the existing 25 years to 21 in the state. In this regard, the Haryana Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed by...
Protests force Parliament session to end before schedule
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha was adjourned indefinitely today, a day ahead of its original schedule, marking the end of the Winter Session of Parliament. The session in the Lok Sabha was brought to an end as well. Both Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om...
Hacking of Instagram accounts of Priyanka Gandhi’s children to be probed
Within days of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi alleging that the Instragram accounts of her children were hacked in an apparent attempt by the government to snoop not just on politicians but their families, top sources in the IT Ministry told CNN-News18 that a suo motu complaint will be lodged...
Harish Rawat tweet appears to aim at Gandhis
New Delhi: Harish Rawat, one of the Congress’s top troubleshooters, asks for “margdarshan (guidance)” from God and says “he has had enough” in tweets that smack of a new rebellion in the party just weeks before state polls. The former Uttarakhand Chief Minister, seen to be close to the...
Priyanka asks ‘sisters’ of UP to bring change
Congress General Secretary In-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in a tweet on Wednesday said that sisters of the state will bring change in UP politics. Quoting from the famous Amitabh Bachchan blockbuster ‘Deewar’ she said, “I have sisters who will bring change in politics.” She said that...
Ex-Punjab minister booked under drugs Act
Former Punjab minister and senior SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia was booked under the NDPS Act, triggering allegations of political vendetta from his party. A case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against him on the basis of a 2018 status report of a...
Mulayam’s photo with Mohan Bhagwat spices up UP politics
A photo of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has gone viral on social media, just ahead of the crucial elections in the politically crucial state and creating a buzz in UP politics. Two days after Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Akhilesh Yadav launched an...
Putin, Modi exchange views in phone conversation
New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday held a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and exchanged views on the situation in the “Asia-Pacific” region, a Russian official said. Russia often refers to the Indo-Pacific region as Asia-Pacific. The official said the two leaders also discussed practical...
Modi’s cash scheme outreach to women voters
Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj today to participate in what the government says will be a “one of its kind programme” that will be attended by over two lakh women. This will be the 10th day the prime minister will spend in Uttar Pradesh...
TMC upbeat ahead of Kolkata civic poll results
The counting of votes for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election has begun with the opposition BJP alleging rigging and demanding a re-poll in all 144 wards. The KMC election witnessed sporadic incidents of violence on Sunday with a crude bomb hurled outside polling stations in the central part...
Punjab asks Centre to speed up sacrilege bills approval
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday wrote to the Centre, asking for obtaining presidential assent for two bills passed by the state Assembly in 2018 for ensuring stringent punishment for those involved in desecration incidents. Randhawa wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah for ensuring assent...
Competition Commission clears Tata’s Air India acquisition
Competition Commission has approved Tata Group’s proposed acquisition of Air India, Air India Express and AISATS. Talace Pvt Ltd, part of Tata Group, is to acquire 100 per cent stakes in Air India, Air India Express and 50 per cent shareholding in Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt Ltd...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan ‘summoned’ In Panama Papers case
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Panama papers. The actor may appear before the prove agency today. The agency wants to question her over allegations of stashing wealth abroad. Aishwarya Rai had been summoned earlier too for questioning, but she had...
